PARKLAND: The public

By Sandy Macdougall
Statf Re .

A series of meetings wilt be heict
this week in various communities
*¢ allow public review and com-
merit on the study team’s findings.

Billed by preservationists as a
wilderness in Vancouver's back-
vard, the 38,000-hectare site in-

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gets its say on future of wilderness area

temin and executive director of the
Weavern Canada Wilderness Com-
nubtee, said the public meetings
represent an ity to make
history by the provincial
government ie wide-
spread support for designation of
e wilderness area aa a Class A
provincial park.
‘History is only made by the
who show up,” Foy sac.
urging residents to attend pubom
scheduled for this week
Holders of timber rights have az-
gued that protection of the entre
area will alienate amber supplies
and result in job losses
However, the study team’s eco-
nomic analysis states that the

would be created if more value
added products were manuractured
in, this ooauriry,

The stuxty team’s includes
three options ranging nO pro~
tection, bo full protection of the en-
tire 38,000 hectares.

The public is also invited to make
recommendations which the study
team will consider before prepar

its Gnal report for the provin-
cabinet.

A decision on the future of the
proposal is expected later thus year.

One of the public meetings will
be held Feb. 15 i che Mike Butler
Room of the Degwood Pavilion,
624 Poirier St, Coquitlam.

An open house will begin at 5
p.m. and wil be followed bv @

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cludes some of the few remairung jobs would even:

stands of odd-growth timber in the

mesting scheduled to begin at 7:30

The Coquitlam School Board sa

ported a new fundraisin
_ school at their meeting Tuesday.

But they do not support the idea
af hiring oaid orofeasionals to raise