Why is Stanley Park Being Logged? Part 2
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Why is Stanley Park Being Logged? Part 2
A story that gets stranger and stranger
Stanley Park’s own signage says that “dead standing trees, stumps and logs are critical to sustaining a healthy forest and attracting wildlife.” In the video below, Vancouver arborist Norm Oberson underscores the importance of respecting that natural cycle (particularly for hooper-effected hemlock trees) and argues how the City has created, and will create, far more risk for the forest and the people in it.
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Thanks for These reports Geoff. This debacle just intuitively felt stupid when I first noticed it. Humans always get in the way, shooting them selves in the foot(or their passenger vehicle!) on the way. As Marcel Duchamp once said. “Don’t try to improve the world, you’ll only make it worse”!
I am against logging in Stanley Park.
We’ve got a report from Blackwell’s consultant recommending cutting timber in Stanley Park. Surprise, surprise!
Trusting loggers with a tree is like trusting fishermen with a fish! The outcome will be as clear cut as the advice is fishy.
Woody woodpecker can’t speak for himself, nor can an old hemlock. But if they could they would show more common sense than the illustrious politicos of Vancouver City.
Park Board members have each been elected to stand on guard for the forest. That’s why we elected them.
Officially the City is concerned for our safety.
If forests are so dangerous, one solution would be to clear cut the whole park. No forest = no fire and no trees falling on people’s heads.
If on the other hand, we consider this urban forest is valuable for innumerable reasons, then may I suggest the following:
Put up signs: "Do not hike here during wind storms." And save 20 million dollars and the wild life.
Fire: leave the forest as it is. Old timber has a way to live through fires and we credentials on this have fire hydrants throughout when needed. My credentials on this are my ownership of a section of tall timber and watching it over the past 35 years infestations and fires...it's still there.
New York’s Central Park is a beautiful civilized place; a sanctuary of greenery in all that madness of concrete. Imagine how New Yorkers would react if their park board logged it!
Vancouver’s Stanley Park is a beautiful piece of wilderness that defines us as Canadians, that sets Vancouver apart in an elsewise crazy world, mad with wars, induced weather catastrophes, much of what is being attributed to mad development schemes and greed.
Vote against this logging scheme and any others sure to be concocted in future, or risk going down in infamy as the Parks Board that began the destruction of Stanley Park. Do we want Green Vancouver making history for the dumbest blunder on the planet … imagine; logging Stanley Park! We would turn the greenest city to the ugliest in just one decision. So, do the right thing. Stop this logging now and forever!
Please, SAVE THE TREES, STOP THE LOGGING and SAVE YOUR ELECTED POSITIONS.