POWELL RIVER REGIONAL DISTRICT

5776 MARINE AVENUE POWELL RIVER. B.C. VBA 2S

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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES QOuR Fite No

Octcber 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
this motion. ~~~

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,
(Electoral Area E) for community services. pram grememmnerees ss mote

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 control -and regulate forestry practices 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 attacned 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
over their resource based issues.

Sincerely,

Don Silvester
Chairman
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