Langley Township has voted to save more than half of a small forest in Glen Valley. But people fighting to keep the entire stand of 80-year-old trees are disappointed.

The township will keep the property along 257A Street, totalling 25 acres, but will sell four lots along 260th Street.

“We’re halfway successful,” says Councillor Kim Richter, who feels the entire property should have been preserved.

“There’s a water course though the east properties. It really is a unique little ecosystem supporting different types of animal species and bird species and so on,” she maintains.

“What we have is the potential there for whatever goes on those properties to totally clear-cut and fill. That, of course, would damage or potentially damage the ecosystem that’s already there,” she adds.

The township says the money from the land sale will fund a new Community Centre in Aldergrove, complete with pool and rink.

A conservation group was given a chance to buy the land for $3 million but claims it wasn’t given enough time to raise the money.

In July, it voted not to sell 21 acres along 84th Avenue, commonly known as McLellan Forest.