Dear Editor:
I am very disappointed to see the Burnco (sand and gravel) mine proposal moving forward (through environmental assessment review). This site was used to relocate a population of Roosevelt elk many years ago.
To return a habitat for a species and then to remove it makes no sense. The area is also the site of a Fisheries and Oceans Canada habitat restoration project. McNab Creek and its tributaries have been proved to have salmon in them. It seems counter-productive to work on a restoration project and then to decimate it.
Perhaps it is time to evaluate the point of establishing restoration projects if they are only going to be destroyed in the future?
Roy Mulder
President, Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
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