‘All or most of the work in trying to save this endangered species nesting area would have been in vain,’ letter writer says of piping plover
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I can’t believe that the Ontario government would sell 140 acres of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park to the Town of Wasaga Beach — especially 60 per cent of the beach front, which is home to the endangered piping plover and which also includes fragile sand dunes.
All or most of the work in trying to save this endangered species nesting area would have been in vain.
This is nothing more than destruction of our inherited provincial parklands for short-term and short-sighted gain.
I’m not against the new buildings being built in the area that we are all familiar with where the shops were. I’ve been in many of those old stores and enjoyed the sort of Californian kicking back beach feeling while at the same time also recognizing that most were tacky and in need of repair, if not a complete overhaul. It is the thought of encroaching on the provincial park lands, which my whole family has loved to visit since the 1950s — just as much now as then.
How lucky we’ve been to enjoy and treasure this beautiful place and how sad to think of the beach raking and destruction that would surely commence once that park section of the beach has changed hands.
No, we must let the government know that we do not want this to happen to our beloved Wasaga Beach Provincial Park or any other of our precious provincial parks in what could become a slow erosion of what Canadians hold most dear — our cherished and protected natural places. These parks belong to all of us.
Teresa Hall
Toronto