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Save the Northshore Forshore Committee

857 WHITCHURCH
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.

: ESPECIALLY MAPLEWOOD MUD FLATS

To:
Members of the Canadian Parliament, March 22nd, 1973

Members of the Legislature of British Columbia,

Mayors and Alderpersons of Vancouver area municipalities,
Canadians,

Mudlovers,

Conservationists everywhere.

Dear Friends:

Greetings? Doubtless you have heard of the Wars of the Roses. May we
engage your attention for a moment to make you aware of the Battle of the Mud,

The Mud is the Maplewood Hudflats, the last remaining natural tidal marsh~
dand~mudflat area in Vancouver's Burrard Inlet. It lies within the District of
North Vancouver, a mile east of the Second Narrows Bridge. It also lies at the
heart of a proposed grandiose development called the Grosvenor Plan, and is

_Glated to become a one-fifth part of a shopping and community center, The Dist-

network of numberless interdependent living things which they nurture. Mudlands
are in fact vitally important to many} Yet man, in his haste to expand, and in
the face of the vanishing dry land, is devouring the mudlands everywhere, for
airport runways, housing developments, recreational facilities, industrial com
plexes, and log booming, grounds. In the name of Progress! (i).

Many of-us are at last becoming aware of the fragile interreletedness of
@il life, and the delicate balance of Nature that is essential to its contin
uance. We now know that radical alteration of one comporient can have far-
reaching ramifications throughout the whole system, The net resultant of the
removal of the Mud'’s contribution to the Burrard Inlet ecosystem is of course
impossible to say for sure, Certainly, however, it would be severe. The Mud

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