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Dear Editor:

. The letter in the January 18 North Shore News by Mr. G.L. Ainscough regarding Meares Island presents cer- tain facts in such a manner as to mislead readers.

While correct in stating that MacMillan Bloedel has timber rights to only 36 per ceat of the island, the addi- tion of B.C. Forest Products tights bring the area to be logged up to 53 per cent. Various: government defer- tals could be dropped after

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Dear Editor:

~The North ‘Shore News editoria! of. January 23 ex- ‘presses support for the West Vancouver Community Arts Council’s proposal to take over the: Pauline’ Johnson

; building as a cultural centre. May'1 just dd’ that. the .

membership of the CAC ‘has never seea this pr oject as one ‘against ‘the “French immer- sion. I think it vould pro-

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twenty years, allowing up to 90 per cent of Meares Island to be logged.

The ‘green up’ Mr, Ainscough describes represents trees 1.5 metres, 5 feet tall. This is hardly enough to render clearcuts unnoticeable.

The three years of public Participation was little more than a waste of time, as MB refused to accept any of the options drawn up by the planning team. Instead, they withdrew from the planning

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portive as any other citizen of” any worthwhile educational project.

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facility to enhance the life of all’-the citizens of © “West Vancouver.

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It looks like the lection for North: Vancouver ‘City mayor is now on. Alderman

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candidacy and his main plat-. form is ‘garbage. His recent picture in the North Shore : News. tells the whole story --and he is right, ‘‘the whole thing stinks.”” *

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team aud submitted their own plan which was approv- ed by the govern- ment—without- public review, That the government accepted this is testimony to their irresponsible attitude towards this issue.

I received a very similar Ict- ter from Mr. R.V. Smith, president of MB and ques- tioned the references te “many, many other islands and areas”’ that will never be logged. These were identified Islands of

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happens to be in the right position geographically and in’ proximity to the Com- munity ‘Centre for it to be converted to its proposed use and because there ave other empty school buildings for

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Pacific Rim National Park, many of which are small and windswept and cannot be compared to Mcares in terms

tion—‘the governmental protection of natural resources?’ (Webster’s)—-would protect

of the forest and tidal eco- the shellfish industry, systems they represent. For tourism and the wilderness various reasons (some valid, values of Meares Island,

These uses require more than a patchwork of logg- ing/forest to survive, they re- quire a separation from logg- ing through natural boundaries.

Randy Stoltmann

West Vancouver

some highly questionable), large areas of Strathcona Park have been logged.

By ignoring the natural boundaries of watersheds and viewsheds, the MB plan fails to provide for.conserva- tion of all the island’s resources. Conserva-

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