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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has written Premier John Horgan to express “grave concern” over logging in a critical watershed near the B.C. border, urging that the work be stopped immediately.

The letter from Durkan tells Horgan that the logging is taking place in the Silverdaisy area of the upper Skagit watershed, an area known as the “donut hole, created when the western boundary of Manning Provincial Park was moved to exclude some mining claims.”

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Durkan said the logging is “inconsistent with the spirit and intent” of the Canada-U.S. High Ross Treaty signed in 1984.

The power utility Seattle City Light obtains 20 per cent of its hydro power from three generating operations on the Skagit system — Ross, Diablo, and Gorge.

“One of the main purposes of the Treaty was to maintain the environmental integrity of the Watershed,” Durkan wrote, adding the “upper Skagit River has extraordinary environmental value that we should protect.”