MAIL Box—— Act Dear Editor: Re “Cypress sewage deal OK'd™ (NSN, Oct. 25). Now that BC Parks has Cypress sewage matters under control and has repaved the Cypress Bowl and Hollyburn Ridge parking lots, perhaps the provincial government can get back to implementation of sig- nificant’ pro-park recommen- dations made by the Cypress Park Special Planning Commission and approved by cabinet in 1995. These recommendations include restoring park areas damaged decades ago by clearcut logging and hydra line installation, raising, BC Parks’ profile at Cypress, and provid: ing a BC Parks-staffed ranger station to “ensure that (BC Parks) clearly is, and is recog: nized to be, the manager of Cypress Provincial Park.” West Vancouver should be support- ed in its efforts to petition the province to follow through on these promises. Re the new sewer agrce- ment: while many park users may have hoped for greater control by West Vancouver over Cypress ski expansion projects, conditions attached to the agreement will give the district. the opportunity to in Cypress sugeestic review and comment on envi- ronmental issessmeats of these projects, thus allowing for bet- ter public scrutiny of the gual- ity and sature of expansion projects, including — tree removal, Nearly 22) hectares (55 acres) of old-growth may be felled for Cypress ski expan- sion. The recently approved “Standard Scope” ior environ: mental assessments (EAs} states that “locations of ancient trees (over 1,000 years of age} and culturally modified trees within proposed cutting, areas will be identified in the site specific EAs and project plan- ning efforts will strive for preseevation ~ Previously con- ducted EAs suggest that all the larger trees in areas slated for development are in the 600- 1,G00 years age range. Many may be over 1,000 vears. The park contains several record- sized trees, listed on the Conservation Data Centre's Big Trees Register in Victoria. Given the extrerne age and importance of this old growth, there is likely to be consider- able interest in details of pro- posed tree felling at Cypress over the next several vears. Katharine Steig West Vancouver Reynolds asked for Stoltmann heip Open letter to John Reynolds: As. more people become aware of the rare and irre- placeable wilderness values thar still exist in the Upper Elaho and Sims Creek, more voices join to call for protec- tion of the natural integrity of the Stoitmann Wilderness area. In the eyes of the pub- lic, the Lower Mainland Protected Areas Strategy of 1996 left an important picce of unfinished business. 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