Sunshine Coast Reporter – May 22, 2011
With a new management team and vision plan, representatives from the Sunshine Coast Community Forest appeared at the May 12 Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) planning and development committee meeting.
President Bob Sitter and operations manager Dave Lasser spoke before the committee, emphasizing their desire to establish an improved working relationship. “We are very much in the mode of building bridges,” Lasser said. Directors raised concerns over the community forest’s plan to log in the upper Roberts Creek area, also known as area EW002 Roberts Creek director Donna Shugar asked why any logging needs to take place in the area and expressed her concern over potential impact to the nearby watersheds.
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