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Wednesday, November 28, 1990 — Bo

John Dean Park trails destroyed by bikes and rain

Mountain bikers who ride through
North Saanich’s John Dean Park
are destroying the park’s trails, a
Friends of John Dean Park spokes-
man said Sunday.

Edo Nyland said the work his
group did about a week ago to
prevent rain run-off from eroding
the trails is being ruined by cross-
country cyclists.

Small dams to drain the recent
deluges of rain water off the trails
have been smashed by cyclists,

who have also left deep ruts in
long stretches of the trails, he said.

“For four years, a large number
of our members have been build-
ing and maintaining these trails,”
Nyland said.

““At the same time, an ever
increasing number of bikers and
even motor cyclists are destroying
out work and eroding the soil.”

Sign posts that warn that biking
is prohibited in the park are being
torn down and vandalized, he said.

B.C. Parks spokesman Bill Shaw
agreed that the trails are being cut
up by mountain bikers, which
leaves the pathways exposed to
water erosion.

“At this rate, they will be dest-
royed in John Dean Park and we
can’t rebuild them until the late
spring,” he said.

Also, flower bulbs that are bur-
ied in shallow earth around the
trails are being destroyed or
washed away, too, he said.

Though it’s illegal for the moun-
tain bikers to be in John Dean
Park, it’s difficult to enforce the
law because warning signs keep
disappearing, he said.

“They tear them down as soon
as we put them up. It’s a continu-
ous cycle,” he said.

It’s going to get to be more of a
problem as mountain biking gets
to be more popular, unless they
show more courtesy and some
intelligence.”

Educating riders on the damag-
ing effects of their nding in the.
rainy season on John Dean Park’s
fragile ecosystem is the key to
solving the problem, he said.

Sidney Mountain biker Sue
McTaggart agrees, and Says area
some cyclists are already making
an effort to minimize their impact
on the park’s trails.

“We've been judiciously using

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