Save Qualicum Beach's Community Forest
The Issue
Come stand for Free-Speech and our Environment at https://treespeech.ca
The Qualicum Beach Community Park has long been a pristine, peaceful refuge for its residents, providing ample shade and beauty via its vast trail network through the woods. We've collected a trove of vast memories from walking with our families and our dogs, while reveling beneath the canopy of the evergreens. This is an iconic part of our village; a community asset to be guarded and passed to generations forth.
It has been announced that about 260 meters of trail and up to 5 acres of forest on Jones and Rupert are now on the chopping block to become the permanent home of the Public Works Yard. Here, the trails meander down a gentle slope south of the cemetery, through a gorgeous setting of healthy trees--many of which are over 70 years old. This newer forest buffers and provides ecological function to the adjacent old-growth trail system that sits at the heart of our Town. Know this: once they are gone, they are gone for good.
Why? From what we understand, the old Public Works yard on Fern must be relocated. There is currently a pub being constructed on it, and there may be other buildings in the future.
Our Consent? Apparently not necessary. In the spring of 2021, the Town wrote "...The Town, City and RDN did not have time for community consultation" when rushing to place the dry housing here. While the dry-housing has been abandoned, the urgency mysteriously remains.
The Truth? It appears that we are giving up our community forest with zero public consultation since 2006 to further support the Mayor's and Councillor Harrison's consistently ecologically destructive agenda.
What can I do?
- Write the Town Council and demand that they preserve this community asset.
Email: 'Qualicum Beach' <qbtown@qualicumbeach.com>, 'Luke Sales' <LSales@qualicumbeach.com>; 'Anne Skipsey' <arskipseyqb@gmail.com>; 'Teunis Westbroek' <TWestbroek@qualicumbeach.com>; 'rfilmer@qualicumbeach.com' <rfilmer@qualicumbeach.com>; "Mr. Mayor" <mayor@qualicumbeach.com>; "Scott" <sharrison@qualicumbeach.com> - Speak out at the Committee of the Whole meeting
The Town will host a Committee of the Whole on Wednesday, November 24th at 9:00 am - Share with Friends and Family!
This is our time to come together as a community and fight for our sustainability. We need to ensure that we do not destroy our forests--especially in a time of unprecedented flooding and heat waves--without properly planning and a fight. We need to ensure that we do not sell our future. Fight like we did for the wetlands. Fight like we did for the Heron. We have the power to create the world we envision. It's time to save our home!
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The Issue
Come stand for Free-Speech and our Environment at https://treespeech.ca
The Qualicum Beach Community Park has long been a pristine, peaceful refuge for its residents, providing ample shade and beauty via its vast trail network through the woods. We've collected a trove of vast memories from walking with our families and our dogs, while reveling beneath the canopy of the evergreens. This is an iconic part of our village; a community asset to be guarded and passed to generations forth.
It has been announced that about 260 meters of trail and up to 5 acres of forest on Jones and Rupert are now on the chopping block to become the permanent home of the Public Works Yard. Here, the trails meander down a gentle slope south of the cemetery, through a gorgeous setting of healthy trees--many of which are over 70 years old. This newer forest buffers and provides ecological function to the adjacent old-growth trail system that sits at the heart of our Town. Know this: once they are gone, they are gone for good.
Why? From what we understand, the old Public Works yard on Fern must be relocated. There is currently a pub being constructed on it, and there may be other buildings in the future.
Our Consent? Apparently not necessary. In the spring of 2021, the Town wrote "...The Town, City and RDN did not have time for community consultation" when rushing to place the dry housing here. While the dry-housing has been abandoned, the urgency mysteriously remains.
The Truth? It appears that we are giving up our community forest with zero public consultation since 2006 to further support the Mayor's and Councillor Harrison's consistently ecologically destructive agenda.
What can I do?
- Write the Town Council and demand that they preserve this community asset.
Email: 'Qualicum Beach' <qbtown@qualicumbeach.com>, 'Luke Sales' <LSales@qualicumbeach.com>; 'Anne Skipsey' <arskipseyqb@gmail.com>; 'Teunis Westbroek' <TWestbroek@qualicumbeach.com>; 'rfilmer@qualicumbeach.com' <rfilmer@qualicumbeach.com>; "Mr. Mayor" <mayor@qualicumbeach.com>; "Scott" <sharrison@qualicumbeach.com> - Speak out at the Committee of the Whole meeting
The Town will host a Committee of the Whole on Wednesday, November 24th at 9:00 am - Share with Friends and Family!
This is our time to come together as a community and fight for our sustainability. We need to ensure that we do not destroy our forests--especially in a time of unprecedented flooding and heat waves--without properly planning and a fight. We need to ensure that we do not sell our future. Fight like we did for the wetlands. Fight like we did for the Heron. We have the power to create the world we envision. It's time to save our home!
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Petition created on April 26, 2021