Re: Beach fire in the Creek (Coast Reporter, July 10)
Editor:
Nowhere else in the world do we see beaches polluted with cut logs like we do here in B.C. If so much rotten wood was not lying on the beach in the first place to tempt these irresponsible partiers, this situation probably would not have happened. Logs on our beaches are not pretty or quaint; they are out and out pollution by the forestry companies who cut them and use our waters as free highways to transport them.
The Ministry of Forests at one time did have rules to deal with this, but the independent log salvagers get little or no money from the logging companies to pick up this junk wood, so it just piles up on our beaches and the Ministry of Forests does nothing about it.
Take a good look at all that wood next time you are on the beach. Natural driftwood does not have clean cut ends, and most of the wood you see with root ends has washed into the water because of poor logging practices. All that wood has been polluting our beaches for as many decades as there has been logging on the B.C. Coast, and most people just accept that it is natural when it is not. It is time the logging companies are held accountable for the mess on our beaches and pay to clean it up.
D. Lamb
Gibsons
