LangleyAdvance
| Thursday, December 13, 2012 |
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Glen Valley
Deadline looms for forest fans
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Locals said the Township should preserve a forest, although it can’t raise the $3 million price.
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by Matthew Claxton
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There was simply no way to raise $3 million in two and a half months, Glen Valley conservationists told Langley Township council Monday. Members of Watchers of Langley Forests (WOLF) asked the council to preserve 25 acres of land in Glen Valley at 260th Street and 84th Avenue, regardless of the group’s inability Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance to purchase the six lots. “Please cancel the sale Scott Perry, chair of WOLF, asked council to preserve a forest although his group has no way to raise the purchase of these properties and price set by the Township. pursue other options to Petrina Arnason noted that WOLF preserve them,” said Scott Perry, the ter from the B.C. Ministry of the Environment. members have talked to Metro chair of WOLF. “The subject properties have high Vancouver Parks, a variety of nature The group has been campaigning ecological value; they are within the conservancy charities, groups worksince last summer to preserve two under-represented Coastal Western ing on the Trans Canada Trail, with treed lots on the Glen Valley floodHemlock very dry maritime… ecovarious levels of government, and plain. The first, smaller, and more logical unit of which there are only with a fundraising expert. densely forested lot was taken off a few protected remnants within The expert told them that it can the market after the public outcry the Fraser Lowlands ecosection,” take two to three years to successand is being kept by the Township. said the letter from Jennie Aikman, fully run a fundraising campaign to The council voted to move ahead buy a property like with the sale of the second set of six a regional planner this one. lots, known as Gray Pit, or by WOLF for BC Parks on the south coast. The original reason and its supporters, as McLellan Park “Please cancel the sale The wetland and for selling the land East. of these properties.” was to raise money The former gravel pit was acquired forests on the land Scott Perry would provide habitat to fund the new rec for non-payment of taxes decades for protected specentre, including a ago. Part of the land has been used cies, the letter said, pool and new ice for gravel extraction, but other parts and the forest has been identified rink, in Aldergrove. have been left entirely vacant for as a regional priority to acquire. However, the land sale has now many years. However, the ministry itself doesn’t apparently been decoupled from the “In my professional opinion, this have the budget to buy the lands. rec centre project, which has been forest is what would clearly be moving forward in recent months defined by the province… as mature, Aikmen urged WOLF to work with local governments and conservation with public meetings about the proor perhaps mature to old growth,” groups to protect the lands. ject’s final design. said David Jordan, who teaches Given the short timeline, WOLF The deadline for WOLF to buy geography and environmental studhas been pulling itself together as the land is Dec. 17, after which the ies at Trinity Western University. an organization at the same time as lands could go back on the open The ecological significance of the it began trying to find funding and market for anyone to purchase. land was a theme hit by several of partners to purchase the Gray Pit The six lots are priced at $300,000 the speakers. lands. each. Mark Haddock brought a let-
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