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Kanata Kourier-Standard 44 Pages
44th Year, Issue 22 June 10, 2010
Paying it forward: St. Isidore students doing good deeds. P 32
Budget blues: Public school board faces huge deficit. P 3
Dynamic Duo: Brothers walking for diabetes cure. P 25
‘Nobody’s coming up with an alternative’ Over 400 people show up to protest development on Beaver Pond land JESSICA CUNHA KOURIER-STANDARD More than 400 people turned out to walk through the Beaver Pond forest on Saturday, June 5, to protest a planned subdivision that would see 182 hectares of the woods demolished. Steve Hulaj, who moved to Kanata because of access to the Beaver Pond forest, put the event together to bring the development to a halt. “This is an old growth forest in the city of Ottawa,” he said. “It is the only forest in the world in a major city that has species at risk and we’re about to destroy it all simply because nobody’s coming up with an alternative.” Families, environmental activists and residents turned out in droves to show the developers they don’t want to see the forest destroyed. “I’m here today because I use this forest all the time,” said Adam Caldwell, who grew up in Kanata and moved his family back to the area one
year ago. “It’s an extremely valuable resource. If they tear down this forest it’s going to seriously impact the liveability of this community. There’s a lot of unique environment in there that they will destroy. If they move forward with that it’s going to be a real loss.” HOME FOR AT-RISK SPECIES In 1981, the area was zoned for development. Since then, 17 at-risk species have been located in the forest, such as the Blanding’s Turtle, but the planned subdivision is still going ahead. “By holing out the middle (of the forest) for 3,200 homes, the remaining fringe of this forest that they were able to protect by not zoning it urban – all those remaining 17 at-risk species – they’ll all perish simply because you can’t sustain a sensitive forest JESSICA CUNHA PHOTO when you have a hole in the middle,” Kathleen Hauschild, Natascha Wood and Cyndi Thomson don’t want to see the Beaver Pond lands said Hulaj. developed. “We’ve been going here since we were young,” said Hauschild. “It’s important to the BEAVER POND, SEE 4 community.” Added Wood, “It’s not going to come back once you destroy it.”
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