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6- The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 24, 1976 -Section Two ManyGousCocendi "You can always build a harbour, but once you destroy aimarsh, it's gone forever". SJim Richards of Orono is a ýast president of the Oshawa Naturalists' Club ai co-author of a book "Bîrds of the Oshaw. Scugog Region". Ar fervently. believes thl CRAFT TV Sales and Service Limited Rent?.9 uy?9,Lease?. We have the answer Telephone' 576-4252 We Service Ail Makes WE SELL: Fleetwood - Panason Microwave Ovens Color Television L.,Sound Components uortl Comfplete eyeglaSSE Single Vision $3 Bifocal 4 Corne into Kng Opticalf outstanding values in qua prescription eyeglasses. 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Cable TV's low monthly cost makes it st-ili your best entertainment buy. pineridecabetvlSking street east,,oshawa, ontario 416-579-2232. whitby 416-668-9331 Expansion id the Second Marsh must be saved. called Along with Mr. Richards, a-Lake there are a growing number of Lnd he voices joining in the drive to lat the preserve one of this region's most valuable natural assets. In, fact the Second March is warming up to be the hottest political potato in Durham since the Pickering Airport fiasco. Ten years ago, such a campaign would probably have been lost to proponents of growth, industrialization and economic expansion. But the climate has chang- ed. Today, even federal bur- eaucracy has a difficuit time steam-rolling development without good and just cause. Whereas conservation was once the concern of a small minority, ecologists and envîr- onmentalists are now riding a wave of popularity. Perhaps the trend is long overdue. So the battie uines have been drawn, and it looks like this bout is pitting the Federal Department of Transport (and the Oshawa Harbour Commis- sion) against the Second Marsh 'Preservationists [je (including the Oshawa Garden lCClub, The United Steel Work- ers, The Oshawa Historical Society, The Sportmen's Club, The Oshawa Naturalists etc. -- the list goes on) For those who consider a marsh to be a place where you get your feet wet if you don't wear rubber boots, consider the words of Jim Richards. "The Second Marsh is the Ontario. It encompasses more than .200 acres of prime haitt and there's no other lg haitat, o land in thîs area which produces life in such variety and complexity. At the Second Marsh, the diversity is such that because of the food es and cover provided, there is a M.00 greater concentration of more 3.00 species of birds than in most other wetlands, though a possible rival might be Pres- for qu'le Park during migrat 1ion. aity "The marsh also supports eight distinct plant communi- s you ties and seven are among S.those which are most rapidly disappearing in the province on Ontario. f rom "In addition, there are ty les, many rare forms of plants and cuding aquatic life found in the Second Marsh," Mr. Richards white, continues, "and among the 200 lenses; species of bîrds which have t been spotted there, several kage; are extremely rare and some ide are even on the endangered liss12' tsS Presently, the Oshawa Har- bour Commission admînisters K, the marsh, and that agency Xbans naturalists from using it. There's no trespassing even styles for those who are desperately trying to save it. ses The fear of the conserva- tionists is that the Harbour Commission may see fit to expand their facilities into the marsh at some point in the future and thereby destroy it. Mr. Richards contends that the real need for new harbour facilities in Oshawa are quest- ionable, as recent trends in Gr Great Lakes shipping have shown a décline in the necessity for deep water YWL21 ports. Drawing comparisons with the situation in Sault Ste. lawa Marie, which almost dupli- aa cates the Oshawa experience, he points out that after over 20 Stores years of study and a cost of ) (5) $360,000, the Sault proposal Ste. was called 'deader than a erbor- dodo' last mnonth by one of the nijton, members of the Chamber of rila, Commerce in that city. Wood- To Jim Richards way. of id thinking, even if harbour Ciy expansion is necessary in 'Oshawa, there's no reason why the Second Marsh can't ,ý7>cableýtv