Editor: Re: Logs not the problem at Bay, letter to the editor, Sept. 18 Letter writer Judy Latoski admits to being "somewhat confused" with respect to the Boundary Bay shoreline rehabilitation project. To help ameliorate
Latoski's confusion, in all due respect, possibly she needs to understand the log accumulation is not part of the "natural habitat" as she incorrectly assumes.
Like the paper coffee cups to which she disdainfully refers, the logs may also be organic but, nonetheless, both are equally foreign to their current surroundings. The forest-industry cut logs are predominately escapees from passing Georgia Strait tugboat booms representing many years accumulation.
The only possible justification for Latoski's position would be to leave in situ those logs lacking evidence of a saw-cut; i.e. those logs that otherwise appear to have died a natural death and have come to rest in their present circumstance with the natural aid of wind, current and tide.
Grant Forbes
