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WV’s Lighthouse Park area in transition

Jan-Christian Sorensen

Contributing Writer

“STAY off the beaten path” is one maxim David Foreman doesn’t suggest people adhcre to, at least when hiking the trails at Lighthouse Park.

Foreman, a member of the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society, is con: cerned that ¢ pn tralblazing visitors to the PS5-acce park i Wfeild are venturing off the designated paths and having a negati

and funa. . slowly what is happening is thatthe trails are getting wider and wider and

using, problems wich yround nesting, birds, ground animal and wild- populagons,” he said. “All of these things are gradually diminivhing and ise Of the attraction: this park has for so many people now.”

The tederal park — designated in ESS) as a lighthouse reserve ~— is leased tothe municipality to manage and maintain. ft served host to a military stanon during, the Second World War. A provincial forestry trainmy contre opened: at the end of that conthe

ween over the impact fla crews were having inthe park prompted West Vancouver council to slap a ban on filming. Councillors commissioned an envy ronmental assessment of the ; e report, completed Last year, mapped dd geophysical aspects of the park and made recommendations towards the reha-

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Animal activists plan to chase pound contract

Katharine Hamer News Reporter kbamer@usnews.com

ANIMAL Advocates founder Judy Stone w: shot at running the local pound. The West: Vancouver resident chims the SPCA isn’t doing a good enough job atthe Park and Tittord pound facility shared by the City and District of North Vancouver, Along with fellow animal acuvist groups Cats, Pets in Need and the Pacitic Animal Foundation, Stone plans to meorperate an umbrella organization called Friends of the Pound : A When the SPCA’s contract rans out amt North Vancouver next January, = ae : anu SE ee Friends of the Pound would tike to see a municipally-run altemat e. NEWS photo Mike Wakefield WEST Vancouver Coun. Bill Soprovich wants Lighthouse Park designated a nature reserve with ‘A page 8 a marine “no take” zone established along its coast. The park is a victim of its own popularity.

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