Petition to Add Perry Ridge in the Slocan Valley, BC to Valhalla Park

WHEREAS Perry Ridge has been identified on GIS forest cover maps (Valhalla Society, Nov. 2004) as a major intact area in the southern portion of the Inland Temperate Rainforest Region

WHEREAS Perry Ridge serves as an important connectivity corridor between Kokanee Glacier and Valhalla Parks

WHEREAS The Sinixt Nation has identified Perry Ridge as an important cultural wetland and is the location of many identified and unidentified significant archaeological sites

WHEREAS Perry Ridge is a unique geological landform and provides domestic drinking and agricultural water to hundreds of farms and homes along the base of the mountain

WHEREAS Perry Ridge is part of the scenic visual corridor along Highway 6 and as a major intact area is very important to the developing sustainable tourism industry in the Slocan Valley. (e.g. (Cross Canada Trail system - Rails To Trails along the Slocan River)

THEREFORE we the undersigned support Perry Ridge being added to Valhalla Park.

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Download a copy of the petition here

Please be sure to sign this petition only once and return all completed Petitions to

Marilyn Burgoon
PRWUA,
Group 16 C-9,
Winlaw, BC VOG 2JO
Canada
1-250-226-7324.
mburgoon@netidea.com

Thank you.



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