Re: “We mourned a forest today” (letter to the editor, March 24).
I appreciate your wish to have access to forested land for you and your family to enjoy. I do have a few comments.
I note that you live in Garibaldi Highlands, have a young family and can afford to send at least one child to a private school. I was raised in the country and enjoyed forested areas to play and exercise my imagination.
However, you must realize that you live on a piece of land which was, not so long ago, a heavily treed area. Since you are, likely, a comparatively new resident to Squamish, you probably have few trees on your lot. This is what modern developers do; they clear away everything to allow the new owner to plant what they wish.
The bottom line: You chose to live where you are. Please don’t deny others who might wish to live in our town too.
Get in one of your cars and take a short drive to our nearby lush forests, which are in abundance and very close. The treed area of which you are lamenting the loss is populated by mostly alders and cottonwood, which grow quickly but relatively short-lived in a healthy state. We are not talking about lush, old growth, virgin forest here.
And please dry up your tears!
Dave Colwell
Garibaldi Highlands
