Editor’s note: This is a copy of a letter to Whistler’s mayor and council.

Please, council, Heather Beresford and Tom Cole reconsider what you are doing. If this community is sustainable, cut regrowth only and not in tourist and local areas. Don’t go for the most money by cutting the biggest nicest trees. Resist the greed to make the most profit. Think about saving the nicest trees (old growth, big and healthy, nice, attractive trees, easy to access on trails in view of tourist and locals) for the community, for me, for you, for your family, for your relatives. My request is huge but a worthy request.

Once you cut these trees they will never be in our backyard again. I will never see them again. My kids will never see them again.

Money is a huge motivator for everyone, so you are not alone. Few true citizens do the right thing by choosing to do something that will make them less money for the greater good of all.

Please resist the urge to take the nicest, most profitable trees and the easiest ones to get. I know that you must do plenty of good things. Please, Tom, do the right thing for the community instead of the business of making money and the best return. The mind battles the heart here. Business does not have to be about the most return.
Lara Mckeown

Whistler