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Tsang, Amanda

The following pages represent a walking tour that looks into the forest history and resource management of the Seymour Valley from the 1880’s to the present. This area has changed immensely as a result of the increased population of the Lower Mainland of Vancouver through immigration and development. Logging companies looked to log timber resources for building materials and global export. This provided North Vancouver with a lumber industry and development of its own city. Timber exploitation as a result of unlimited and unregulated forest practices are discussed, as well as the realization of precious watershed resources. This relates to the changed logging and forestry management practices on the landscape, with the Crown lands lease in 1927 to a renewed Amending Indenture in 1967. The watershed landscape also influenced forestry practices that were allowed in the area. Today, the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve has come a long way from being an unmanaged unregulated landscape to a carefully managed municipal park that has trails and tours open to the public. This material is further arranged in the most straightforward and easy to follow manner in order for the public to enjoy as it will be implemented into a walking tour (Figure 1) that encircles the Rice Lake Loop Trail.

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University of British Columbia. GEOG 429

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0103573

Arts, Faculty of; Geography, Department of

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