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Area D director Kelly Backs calls for the SCRD to request withdrawal of the cutblocks from current operating plans until concerns over potential impacts of logging on downstream properties, water users and infrastructure have been addressed.
'It is incomprehensible why, in this time of climate change, anyone would seriously propose clear-cutting in our watershed. Mature forests are what stabilize the slopes, reduce the risk of flooding, and regulate the recharge of water into the aquifer that supplies drinking water to more than 10,000 people.'