LESS THAN a week after a North Vancouver District
houlevard was logged. roaring chainsaws and falling frees
ina North Vancouver City park have outraged more North
Shore residents.

te Greenwood Park. located at ~ 7
a East 23rd Street and Ridgewas By Elizabeth Collings
Avenue, has been the site of the | News Reporter

Most extensive tree removal done
throughout the city: over the last
few weeks.

“Tt absolutely made my heart

feel sich, what thes're doing tn

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LOCAL RESIDENT Chris Turner (right) and Lizette Tucker survey dozens of trees
cut down in Greenwood Park at 23rd Street and Ridgeway in North Vancouver.
The city has used a private contractor to cut down and remove trees damaged
during stormy December winds, but some area residents are upset over the
disturbance to their park.

N. Van City claims only
hazardous trees removed

there” said area resident: Pacricia
Kennedy. Thess se almost clear-
wut thet area.”

Renneds, who describes hersel fh

and her son as Greenwood Park
“reeublars. said that the Upper
Pesels Highwas can now be seen
and heard trom the park because
the screen af trees ps so thin.

“That ttle park area is ruined.
They se got open spaces. You oan

see through the trees info that ug-
ty Tempe Heights area ficross the
highwas 7 she sail.

But North Vancouser City
engineer Chuck Citie satd the log-
ging bs partoot the its". proueet fo
clear up trees duimaved. felled er
uprooted By severe wermdbeforss at
the end of December

The damared trees, he
create a favard for park tasers.

Gale s-timated that between Sb
and POO trees tid teen cur down
throughout the cits’. parks, but
he could: nor say how many trees
were felled in Greenwood Purk.

Cleanup aperagons his) also
taken plac Tempe. Mahon and
Heywood

Bur, decoding fo city: parks sue
Perintendent Martin Moore.

sat,

Ciresnwood Park Ras required the
mosi work.

“Greenwood was ot disaster
gone, Eoowas the wart hin’
Moore said. "We're removing the
down trees ~~ we're not felling

Thes tre all uprooted and
Sie dvaning was over?

Fie estimated that YS per cent of
the trees cut down were hemlock,

three per cent were cedar and a
very few were fir trees.

Cherlee Contricting Ineo the
private contractors Who are cut.
ting dows the urees. ate hetny
supervised by Moore.

Cherlee will be compensated

for iN work on the basis of the
tuber ic harsesta, Gale satd.

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