Monday, 3 December 2012
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MCLELLAN PARK VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE
Save Mclellan Park
Stuart Bucholtz talks about the ecological functions of the forest
Save Langley's Mclellan Park
Tim and Thilo from B.E.A.R. perform for Langley Fine Arts students November 15.
Save Mclellan Park -The Children Speak
Save Mclellan Park - The Women Speak
Gail Chaddock Costello Speaks at Art in the Park Event
Wilderness Committee On the Ground Report
Featuring speeches and performances at Art in the Park event
Joe Foy speech in it's entirety
Also featuring speech from Gail Chaddock-Costello and a letter from Shane Dyson is read out.
Remarks by David Jordan . Scott Perry,and Mark Haddock,and Susan McCaslin.
Leonard Howell on Mclellan Park
Also featuring Hilary Ruffini and Mark Haddock
Stuart Bucholtz talks about the ecological functions of the forest
Save Langley's Mclellan Park
Tim and Thilo from B.E.A.R. perform for Langley Fine Arts students November 15.
Save Mclellan Park -The Children Speak
Save Mclellan Park - The Women Speak
Gail Chaddock Costello Speaks at Art in the Park Event
Wilderness Committee On the Ground Report
Featuring speeches and performances at Art in the Park event
Joe Foy speech in it's entirety
Also featuring speech from Gail Chaddock-Costello and a letter from Shane Dyson is read out.
Remarks by David Jordan . Scott Perry,and Mark Haddock,and Susan McCaslin.
Leonard Howell on Mclellan Park
Also featuring Hilary Ruffini and Mark Haddock
HAN SHAN POETRY PROJECT
You are cordially invited to visit a site
specific installation of tree poems on Saturday, December 8 from 1-3 pm. This
is one of a series of arts initiatives to raise awareness of the McLellan Forest East, on 257A Street just north
of 84 Avenue.
Poets across Canada,
including quite a few Governor General’s Award winners, responded to a
call from Langley poet Susan McCaslin to submit
poems celebrating trees in an effort to protect a unique forest just outside
the heritage community of Fort Langley,
British Columbia.
More than one hundred and fifty poems
were submitted over a five day period from established and emerging poets of
all ages, and are now suspended from the trees in the hope that the voices of
poets will be considered when Langley
council decides the fate of the forest on December 17, 2012.
The installation was inspired by Han Shan,
a Chinese hermit poet from the Tang Dynasty era over 1,000 years ago, who wrote
poems on trees and rocks, living respectfully with nature.
The land in
question, known locally as McLellan Park Forest East, is publicly owned by
Langley township but is slated to be sold off to partially fund a recreation
centre and pool if a small group of residents called WOLF (Watchers of Langley
Forests) cannot come up with 3 million dollars by December 17. It has been
difficult for WOLF to raise the funds because supporters feel the forest is already
owned by the public and that Langley
should just reconsider selling it. The total cost of the recreation centre is
estimated at $35 million.
McCaslin says,
“These poems express how poets respond to the creative outpouring of
nature that encompasses and sustains us. It’s about putting human
language beside the larger language of nature and the planet. They have been
offered specifically for the protection of this remarkable, biologically
diverse forest. ”
The name Han Shan translates as “Cold Mountain,”
which is also the area in the district of T'ien-t'ai in China where the poet lived. Han
Shan was the inspiration for the Cold Mountain School of west coast beatnik
writers, such as Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac.
McLellan Forest is a small fragment of what once existed
throughout the Fraser
Valley before over a
century of settlement. Very little of this ecosystem has been protected in its
natural state.
A
provincial biologist has notified Langley
council that the property in question is “ecologically unique,”
features “high biodiversity value” and has exceptional value as
habitat for species at risk, such as the Pacific water shrew and Oregon spotted frog.
Guided walks are led by WOLF every
Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm.
Location:
Further information about the forest may
be found at:
http://mclellanpark.blogspot.
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Saturday, 1 December 2012
Robert Batement Urges Preservation of Forest
See media reports of his visit at the following locations...
Langley Advance
http://www.langleyadvance.com/news/Robert+Bateman+visits+disputed+forest/7634556/story.html
Global TV
http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/fight+to+save+langley+forest/video.html?v=2311702713&p=2&s=dd#video
Also, see the latest article in Saturday's Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/Save+ecologically+unique+forest+Langley+urged/7636559/story.html
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