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Trail advocates ask RDN to chip in for remediation study along rail corridor

On July 8, Graeme Lamson, Friends of Rails to Trails Vancouver Island director, said rail land returned to Snaw-Naw-As First Nation after a legal battle is now a trail providing access from a gas station to a campground across Highway 19.
The RDN received $600,000 from the British Columbia government for rail planning, with a March 31 deadline to allocate the funds.
`The most important thing is talking to and taking absolute respect and consideration`, Graeme Lamson said, noting the foundation recently created a reversion committee, which relates to the Snaw-Naw-As lawsuit from four years ago.
In a statement to the News Bulletin, Thomas Bevan, chief executive officer of Island Corridor Foundation, said there has been no determination about the rail corridor’s future, emphasizing the group’s stewardship role.
Seeking funding, proponents aim to guide land remediation along the E&N rail line corridor from north of Snaw-Naw-As to Parksville and through Lantzville to the Alberni-Clayoquot boundary across Vancouver Island.

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