LETTER: Disappearing environment
For the past 20 years my children and I have enjoyed checking for eagles, hawks and crows in the alder grove on the south side of Metchosin Road heading into Colwood.
It was a refuge for bears, and provided a nice buffer from the desolate landscape of a gravel pit. It is now an open desert that will soon be filled with row houses.
While most people recycle to some extent, they don’t make much of any changes in their daily lives.
This cooling green area has been destroyed by greed and left open to heat-absorbing asphalt or concrete. It is not possible to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by replacing this natural grove of ornamental, non-native greenery.
Johanna Buhr
Metchosin
