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PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY; JUNE 12, 2002.
Tree bylaw opponents get another chance
By Keith Roulston
Citizen publisher
Those unhappy with Huron
County's new tree bylaw will have
one last opportunity to have their
objections heard at the June 12 meet-
ing of the agriculture, public works
and seniors committee.
Council deferred passing the
bylaw at ifs June 6 meeting on rec-
ommendation of . Bernie MacLellan,
chair of the committee after he had
met with two vocal opponents, Bob
Hallam, former West Wawanosh
reeve and Joe Gibson, retired Huron
County tree commissioner.
MacLellan pointed out that the
committee had heard public submis-
sions for two hours at its May 8
meeting, then discussed those com-
ments for another two hours, before
making several amendments to meet
the objections of those opposed to
the bylaw, now called the Forest
Conservation Bylaw. He'd then
showed the proposed revised bylaw
to Gibson and Hallam who still were
not happy with some of the wording.
The May 8 meeting had been
attended by the representatives from
several ltogging companies, forest
technicians, conservation authorities
and the Huron-Perth Woodlot
Association,
County Engineer Sandra Lawson,
in her final appearance before coun-
cil before leaving her position June
7, said the proposed bylaw was a
compromise between the feelings of
loggers on one side and conservation
authorities and environmental
groups on the other, with farmers and
landowners somewhere in the mid-
dle.
Among the compromises, Lawson
said, was the removal of a provision
that a woodlot must be marked by a
"certified" marker before harvest,
with the marker only having to be
"qualified".
The amendment allows a landown-
er to mark his or her own bush based
on good forestry practices. The coun-
ty inspector can then come in before
the trees are cut to make sure the
marking has been done properly,
Under the previous bylaw, a wood-
lot didn't have to be marked and the
county could only respond with
penalties after the fact if a tree that
was too small was cut, she said. Now
county officials will be able to
inspect the - marking and prevent
under-sized trees from being cut
before it's too late, she said.
The revisions also allow people to
harvest a certain amount of wood
each year for their own use, whether
for firewood or for home building or
even home furniture making in
Mennonite areas, Lawson said.
In asking that approval of the
bylaw be postponed until after one
more public consultation, MacLellan
said "I don't own a bush and I have
never been a logger," but the bylaw
seemed like common sense to
him.
Still, he said, he wanted a chance
to explain the most recent amend-
ments to those opposed to the bylaw.
Notice of the meeting plus the lat-
est draft bylaw was to be faxed to all
those who had attended earlier meet-
ings.
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County
approves
in principle
televising
meetings
By Keith Roulston
Citizen publisher
Details, including financial ones,
must still be worked out, but Huron
County council has approved in
principle the idea of televising its
meetings on cable TV.
Councillors at their June 6 regu-
lar meeting and May 14 committee
of the whole meeting, heard a pres-
entation from Daniel Byelis of
ETM Television Inc. which broad-
casts over cable in the Exeter,
Clinton and Goderich areas.
Byelis said his company was
likely to go ahead with the coverage
whether it received financial help or
not but there were financial costs
involved such as travel and video-
tape costs for which it would be
lielpful to receive financial support.
"I'll leave it up to you," he said.
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