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Published: September 23, 2008 3:00 PMUpdated: September 23, 2008 3:00 PM
Dear editor,
In response to Frank Hovenden (Record, Sept. 17 ) we were fortunate enough to get Barbara Price down to the park for a look see meeting and you are right, Ducks Unlimited did good in helping to purchase the Sandpines Park land.
There are absolutely magnificent views of the Trumpeter Swans in the neighbours’ potato fields from the park. Being out in the park as much as we are, we usually see them the first day they arrive, it’s a marvel every year.
In response to the letter from Betty Franklin (Record, Sept. 17) regarding wildlife in Sandpines Park, there are for sure beavers in the Lazo Marsh. They are busy chopping down trees to build their dams and I had heard a barn owl at one point did swoop down on someone’s head just at dusk.
As for the bear, cougar and bull elk, I hope I don’t meet up with them. Good to see them from a car in safety but not too good to be standing beside them.
If we want these type of animals in the park, then perhaps we should put an eight-foot fence around the whole park and really encourage the wildlife by banning all humans, dogs and cats from entering the property. Sandpines Park’s eight acres adjoins 448 acres of the Lazo Marsh and North East Woods. The wildlife must be in the adjoining 448 acres somewhere, because we haven’t seen any in the area where we play disc golf.
Craig Dieno,
Comox
