Aid - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 8, 1995 Opinions mixed | on timber review THE FOREST service has heard “the whole spectrum’ of opinions on what should and shouldn’t happen to the Cassiar Timber Supply Area north of here on Hwy37, says a forest service official, . “We've had responses that in- dicate go slow, or do not cut at all to those that would like to see the north developed and job op- portunitles created,’ said -Mike Watson, inventory officer for the | Cassiar district. The ministry is canvassing pub- lic opinion as part of a timber supply review of the district. A computer study by the forest service suggests that the allow- able cut could be increased six fold — from 140,000 cubic metres 4 year to 842,000. That increase represents about 20,000 truckloads a year. Because no large-scale mills exist in the Cassiar area, most trucks would come south on Highway 37 to Smithers, Hazelton and Houston. “It’s a starting point for the chief forester to, look at a pos- sible, sustainable Hlow,”’? Watson said. '‘The chief forester will also look at the factors that went into that number.” A discussion paper on the Cas- siar timber supply review clearly states that old, incomplete in- formation was used to arrive at that number. An inventory on the forest hasn’t been done since the 70s, and no data exisis to sub- stantiate growth estimates. In addition, no-inventories have been done on other resource valucs such as wildlife or tourism. The proposed sharp increase in logging has worried some ob- servers. Monty Bassett; former director of the Spatsizi Associa- tion for Biological Research, finds the notion of an increased cut judicrous, particularly when so little data is known about other forest values. “It’s an area that produces pecker poles,”’ Bassett said. The area boasis the province's best wildlife and contains prime, untapped tourism potential, he said. Duplicating clearcuts like those around the Mezladen area and having 20,000 logging trucks a year rearing down ‘the Cassiar highway would put a serious crimp in tourism, Bassett said. Besides, the wood would all be exported out of the Cassiar to the Bulkley Valley, he maintains. “It’s packaging up the resources of one area and ship- ping them out to feed an un- sustainable need in another.’’ For guide: outfitters, Cassiar is the heartland of North American wildlife. Ray Collingwood, a guide out- fitter in the Spatsizi, said much more study is needed before any talk of increased AAC can be en- tertained. “The Cassiar area has the largest diversity of big game wildlife in the province. We’ve got ihe prima donna section,’ he said. The arca is famous for caribou, grizzly bear and moose. “T can tell you right now that people are not going to go up there and see clearcutting, when it comes to promoting the wilder- ness guide oulfitling business,” Collingwood said 27 guide out- fitters operate in the district, not including fish guides. ‘We're not against logging. We're just saying, ‘Look, It's consider the value of this wildlife and the value of the nature,” “We want to see that area ana- lyzed, What do the people of the Reform leader to visit B.C, REFORM leader Jack Weis- gerber will be here Thursday, March 4 for the founding meeting of a provincial Reform con- siltuency association for Skeena. It happens at 7 p.m. at the Masonic Hall on Lazelle Ave. ‘IV's moving quite nicely,” said organizer Ron Town. “They ’ve got over 140 members on the books already and they're going to wait until they’ve got at least 300 members before they start the scarch for a candidate.’ Once an executive is formed, he said, they’ll work on building the membership and search for a can- didate is the next provincial elec- tion. . only three per cent of its forest is north want?"’ Hf local residents want a forest industry, a mill should be built in Dease Lake, he said, "T think it’s an insult to those people who have been up there all their life and then they're taking these trees right around them and they're shipping them right down to Houston and Smithers and Burns Lake, This is ludicrous.” ~ Located in the far-northwestern comer of B,C,, the Cassiar TSA is the largest in the province but of the wiil be held on considered economically viable. 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