The Timber West Company currently

owns virtually all of the land in the Muir

Creek watershed. Timber West is actively

logging in the area and the company’s

long-range plans include selling property

in the area for residential development.

With the planned logging and increased

residential development in the Juan De Fuca

Electoral Area, residents are witnessing a

natural landscape under pressure. An ecosystem

includes all of the conditions under

which a species lives. Individual changes

can have a dramatic cumulative effect on

an environment’s ability to sustain life.

 

Logging or residential and commercial development

of the Muir Creek riparian zone

would not only remove the surviving old

growth trees but could potentially damage

the entire ecosystem.

Muir Creek is mentioned as one of the

significant drainage systems in need of

“protection in as natural, undisturbed

state as possible…as fish and wildlife

habitat, recreational areas and as water

supply areas” (page 23).

Muir Creek is also identified as a significant

salmon stream, important “not

just for the contribution…to the open

but also for the commercial

opportunities” presented (page 48).