SENT BY: VILLAGE OF ANMORE ; 18-28-39 Q:31AM ; 604469053737684 464 3524

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Digatriat Manager

B.C. Forest Service -
Your File 285-35=2: Bagle Mountain

guna 27th, 1989

Page 2

As you know tha Coquitlam Area Mountain
Study recommended that the Coquitlam Rivar not
be logged and retained for its reoreational potantial.
The recommandations of that study were not accepted
m and as a result there are significantly leas old~
growth areas in the northeast sector; Eagle Mountain
is one of the last. Our information is that the
32 hectare area intended for logging is only marginally
viable at best and might produce only 3 or 4 jobs
for 3 ox 4 man monthe. Can the economia benafits
resulting from the destruction of a unigue first
growth area; one that attracts tourists and is
part of the recreational potential for tha whole
of the lower mainland, possibly be justified, when
: compared with the potential long term loss in tourism?

You may know that the Balcarra Regional
Park regerve bounds on Buntzen Lake. The Coquitlam
Watershed comprises the Hast slopes of BFagle Ridge.
fhe logical method of protecting the West slopes
of Eagle Ridge would be to extend the park reserve
to include those slopas. I will, on behalf of Council, *
be bringing that matter to the atcention of the .
GVRD .

The Village of Anmore is requesting
that the proposed logging on Eagla Mountain he
vesoinded and that some other more appropriate
place be subatituted for any commitments the Forest
Service may have in respect to the Small Business
Forest Enterprias Program.

Yours truly,

H. Weinberg
Mayor

C@: Mr. R. Rankin, Manager GVRD Parks
City of Port Moody
District of Coquitlam
City of Pert Coquitlam
Villiage of Belcarra
Tan Waddell, MP

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