POWELL RIVER REGIONAL DISTRICT
5776 MARINE AVENUE POWELL RIVER, 8.C. V8A 2M4
Telephone 483-3231

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES QurR File NO.

October 3, 1989

Mayor Len Traboulay and Council
city of Port Coquitlam

2580 Shaughnessy Street

Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 2A8

Dear Mayor Traboulay and Council:

The Board of the Powell River Regional District at its regular meeting of
August 24, 1989 endorsed the attached motion to Provincial Cabinet requesting
a moratorium on inappropriate commercial logging on private land in the
Islands Trust area. The Board would ask for your consideration and support of
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As you may be aware Lasqueti Island falls both within the jurisdiction of the
Islands Trust for planning services and the Powell River Regional District,
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Our Board has followed with concern the reports of social unrest on the Gulf
Islands. The Lasqueti situation serves to highlight the serious nature of
the problem of logging practices on private land not only in the Islands
Trust area but: throughout the province.

It is time the Provincial Government acknowledged there are inappropriate
logging practices being used on private land and set in motion legislation to
address this issue. We believe the Island’s Trust should be given the means

‘to controi—and-regulate-forestry—practiees- on-private—land—as—a—test-.case. -for.---
future legislation for the province. This seems appropriate due to the

Islands Trust’s mandate to preserve and protect the unique nature of the Gulf
Islands. )

As further background on this request, we have attached a brief from the
Lasqueti Island Steering Committee entitled "Towards Sustainable Forestry on
Private Land in the Islands Trust Area".

Our Regional Board would encourage you to forward resolutions expressing your
Boards support for a temporary moratorium (until legislation is enacted) to
the Premier, Ministry of Municipal Affairs, and Ministry responsible for
Environment. Your support of this proposal will provide further impetus to
the Provincial Government’s plan to give more local control to communities
ever their resource based iswuues.

Sincerely,
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Don Silvester
Chairman

C .C. Ap-dvernmen
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