10 - North Shore News -— Friday, September 15, 2000 SPEC director calls foras From pane 1 tres to the Sevmour River, where it will con- nect with other, smaller trails. Said Bol Cavill, administrator watershed management with the GVRD: “We'll have a lovotit done this year, but T would say we'll be working on it well through most of 2001." The trail project is budgeted tor $2,980,000, “The reason why we are proceeding at this point in time is we're rving to get our crossings across the creeks in prior to the end of the federal fisheries window, which is the middle of the month. “We do need a bit of an extension and with this good weather we're hoping we can get it. In order to get this project in place before the capital projects start, we've got to utilize the window,” Cavill said. Hundal would like to sce the project stopped dead in its tracks, He first became concerned about the effects the trail route would have on heritage features in’ the Seymour Valley back in the spring. Said Hundal, “There were some heritage features right at the beginning (near what used to be a homesteader’s pond for cows) that To had some serious concerns about. There was this one road bed that you could tell had been hand built. Twas concerned about the path. “When they flagged it (the route} there was a section the public couldn't really get through. When they started work on it, they brushed it through and about two weeks ago Iwent for a walk because that’s when the thing was in full swing. In fact it was in such a fas swing it was literally being cleared 100 metres a day. These guys work fast. That's when you could first see the road (Lillooet Trail). All the cleared sites had vistble skid road, What they hadn't destroyed and buried under gravel, there was this skid road coming right out between the survey lines,” Hundal said. At first Hundal thought the skid road was a simple logging road. With the help of a map of North Vancouver drawn by Alan E. McCartney in 1899, Hundal found that por- tions of the Lillooet Trail and the alignment of the new LSCR recreation trail marched. “I found out they were literally on top of the original Lillooet Trait.” Hundal believes the GVRD could have moved the trail to avoid heritage features. “I've seen these guys engineer a road on the most incredible terrain, you’d nev-r think they could build a road on it. It’s out of lazi- ness on their part that they ended up follow- ing the easiest trail,” he said. North Vancouver District Coun. Ernie Crist added a motion to the agenda for coun- UBC Chan Centre for the single ex A Greater Vancouver Regional District chain saw sits at rest in area where workers are building a new recreational trail in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. cil consideration on Monday calling for coun- cil to ask the GVRD to stop building the recreational trail through identified heritage sites and the site of a red-listed ecosystem. The meeting ended before councillors could address the issue. On Wednesday Hundal made a request to appear as delegation on behalf of SPEC before the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve Steering Committee. The committee is scheduled to meet today. The Seymour Valley is located within the traditional territories of several Coast Salish First Nations, including the .Musqueam ‘Indian Band, the Squamish Nation, the Sto:lo Nation and the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (Burrard Band). Use of the Seymour a at IN cellent price of forty dolla ™ ae) eg THE MOVIE IN MY MIND: the music is my movie 2PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 Music composed for film. Music that is a film. Featuring guest conductor Véronique Lacroix and Erika Raum, violin. Eric Friesen hosts. RIVALS! 2PM SUNDAY OCTOBER 15 Erikaeaum = Delight in a concert of the music o f Salieri, Mozart,’ Rossini and Beethoven, Featuring conductor Mario . Bernardi and pianist Stephen Ham, the 1999 CBC Young Performers Winner. Rick Cluff hosts. 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No evidence of aboriginal sites was found, but the pathway corridor did yield evi- dence of logging and “post-conract” items (19th and 20th century), including “whole and fragmentary artifacts of industrial manu- facture (made of glass, metal, ete.),” stumps, pits, fences and an old road bed, * Such features, however, are not protected under the Heritage Conservation Act and were not ranked as archeological sites. Aboriginal sites are considered archeological sites under the act. . . Said Crist, “If this was done by a private company, all hell would break loose. Those relics are worth preserving because it is a part of our history.” The consultant went on to recommend that “in the unlikely event that archeological remains are encountered during pathway construction, it is recommended that con- struction activities that could endanger the remains be suspended at once, and that the Archeology Branch and First Nations be informed as soon as possible...” Said Crist of the narrow definition of what to project is being considered heritage for the pur- poses of the project, “Whether we like it or oot, the white man is a part of our histo- rv Tt cas the immi- grants, the loggers, the carly settlers who also made a contribu- tion te this country. tts a recent: history, it’s history never- ws, Yes we ald preserve the native history, but Canada is a unit.” Meanwhile, Hundal is also troubled by the GVRD's decision to bring the new trail down to the Seymour over at the nine- lometre point. It will hook in to the existing Old Grawth Trail, The two-metre wide extension will i through a provin- cally red-listed mperiled) Mm a mature Si pruce and salmon- berry grove. said the GVRD's Cavill, “Originally the whole recreation- al pathway was sup- posed to be on the west side of the exist- ing mainline alj the way up. As things got evaluated and sur- veved further, there was a look at making the pathway cross the mainline ac a point and take advantage of some of the very nice pristine areas adjacent to the river. “We're not talking . mainline (road) style here, we're talking a two-metre recreational pathway. We've alread: ot one down there. Nothing is disturbed Jacept the trail-width itself. E think ic has to be well-managed and there has to be respect for the environment and make people aware of how valued these areas are. He (Hundal) !:2. a concern which I think we are interest..: in as well,” Cavill said. The LSCR was od to the public in 1987 as the Seymour Demonstration Forest. Approximately 300,000 people visit the reserve annually, A seismic upgrade of the 39- year-old Seymour F2!:,, }am is slated to begin in the fall of 2062 an.: . $130-million filtra- tion plant is set to be constructed southeast of Rice Lake that same year. : The GVRD is also twinning the existing water main that runs from Seymour : Falls Dam to the GVRD works yard at Second Narrows. The pipelin- runs adjacent to the Mainline Road, a 13. 0:: metre access route that cuts through the n+: Jule of the LSCR. At 5,200 sq. hectares, the LSCR is 14 times - larger than Stanley Park. It supplies 90% of the water for the Lower Mainland and is the GVRD’s priority water source in case of. . emergency. .. oy ( ? ; Photo Socts Bet your laundry room | | doesn't look like this! q But it could! 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