Help Save Skook!!!!

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Moeterboater - Sun, 2007-06-03 21:10

I got this e-mail today from wave sport team manager Brian Jennings.

For those of you that have been to skook in BC you won't forget the beautiful forest you have to walk thorugh to get to the wave. Please send an e-mail off to the logging company that want to destroy this epic forest that surrounds one of the worlds most epic tidal waves.

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The village of Egmont, BC, is asking for the help of all kayakers who have ridden (or aspire to ride) the waves of the Skookumchuck Rapids. We have learned that a logging company has acquired the logging license in this area. The logging plans involve three huge clear cuts on the local watershed with one that extends right to the Skookumchuck Trail within the Provincial Park. Also, there is a planned cutblock that would mow down the trees along Egmont Road from Highway 101 to North Lake; a huge cutblock off of Maple Road; and another cutblock on the watershed at the north end of Ruby Lake. As well, the company plans to log Sechelt Nation Reserve lands just inside the Sechelt Inlet just past the rapids.

The residents of Egmont asked if the logging company would take a sustainable logging approach but they said no and so the area's residents have said no to the logging company. We now ask for your support to keep the logging out of this area. We ask that you email the forestry rep before a June 6th deadline at cam_forrester@dccnet.comand copy that email to us at skookumnarrows@yahoo.ca Please address your email to:
Cam Forrester, R.P.F., Consulting Forester6231 Sunshine Coast Highway, Sechelt, BC V0N 3A7Tel: 604-885-7142, Fax: 604-885-7112Email: cam_forrester@dccnet.com 
We will be posting all information about this proposed logging and our efforts to stop it on our blog atwww.saveourwatershed.com. We look forward to your support. Sincerely,
Friends of Egmont