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Terrace Standart,

‘the™ southern - ‘portion of the:

‘Kalum district is not new.
However, the way it’s being

done. this: time is, says forest

‘district-manager Brian Downie, a pee
‘One of-the biggest differences

- ds the Forest Service won’t just

be looking at trees. When it last:

went through ‘this process in
1981, Downie sald the focus was
exclusively on timber values, —

“While timber’s‘ still . impor-

‘tant;: “We're. starting ‘by Jogk-:
ing’at non-forest values,” he ex-:

plained. “We basically know
what the timber values are but

we want-to know about the

others,” .
- For that reason, ‘the fish and
wildlife ‘branches of the En-
vironment ministry and the
federal . Fisheries department
were being. involved ‘from the
start. It was also why the Forest
Service was putting a heavy em-
phasis on public participation in
drawing up the plan.
; Describing the amount of
public input in 198] as ‘‘inade-
quate by today's standards,’
Downie said the Forest Service
was attempting to make sure
that didn't happen this time.
Where before people had
simply-. been invited, through.

advertisements, to contact the -
istrict office if -they had -

anything to say, now the
ministry” was. actively . seeking
the public’s view by contacting .
all groups which might have an
interest in what happened i in the
South Kalam i0.is 1g ota dg

Given ‘the: Forest: Service

areas where values other then
timber could be considered
more important, “We expect
the public will be able to give us
a lot of that information,” he
said.

Having that kind of informa-

tion would allow the Forest Ser-.

vice to pinpoint areas where the
emphasis should be on wildlife,

fish, scenery or timber, Jt was -

‘also important if the -South
Kalum plan was to achieve a
balance between environmental,
-Cconomic and social concerns |

- Given were a number of areas
which had the potential for con:
flict... between competing _in-
jterests, Downie said it. was’.
to” have a ‘strategy

Modesty, uy 10, 1991 - Page as.

TERRACE — — "patting together -}/
a timber: ‘supply - analysis and _
‘matiagement. plan for forests in |

ETTERS

TO THE TERRACE STANDARD.

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MUNICIPAREY Sr, PL

gov :

skeena
crossing |

Dear Sir:

. ple behind Orenda?
- to know, too,

of people in this town is mak-
ing all the decisions about
‘what we should have; the rest
of the people have to take it
_ whether they like it or not.

‘And like the man said,
these companies come in here
for the kill, grab everything
they can get and get out, The
- people here are left with
nothing but destruction, -

Our forest is dwindling
fast enough as it is without
adding another pulp. mill.
The also familiar Slogan, “‘it
will create jobs’’ is like pull-
ing the wool over peopies’
eyes, as adding the pulp mill
to our already existing mills
will speed the process of our
dwindling forest up- even
faster. Then nobody” will
have a job left,

The people who promote

what is going on in our
forest. Well, do yourself a
favour, get off the highway

@ good look around.

You will be amazed what a
hell of a mess you will find
and how little there is left.
The logging practice in
British Columbia is
disgusting, the whole world
looks at it in disgust.

The Orenda people say this
mill will not have that terri-

“Kalum South ae Wea
Resource, | = Provtnctal Forest
‘Recreation Area

ae Reserve

Planning JUSS
KO VOR ce ha: A Gy Tha BET is tog is tay fhe

Forest ice. THE KALUM SOUTH sectionof the forse district pin from thie
wanted ‘to identify:any special .

Nass in the north to south of Kitimat and from just'west' of the Ex-

chamsiks almost to Cedarvale in the east. However, the'proposed ° ff

resource management’ ‘plan Will deal only with those areas marked
in grey on the above map. The gaps represent tree farm licences
where the licencees — Skeena Cellulose (TFL 1} and Skeena
Sawmills (TFL 41)— are. responsible tor crawing up their own

~ Management plans.

diplelal Bouicgary

which would help resolve them.
Therefore, Downie said, this
was notso mucha - forest

management as a land use plan, -

similar to that put together for
the Thunderbird area around
Lakelse, .

In that: case, he noted, land
use issues had been dealt with
first and now the advisory com-

mittee. and the Forest Service _
were looking -at forestry pracy
"tices in the. Areas identified | as

F Their plaris will be examined

‘district, .
Forest district manager ‘Bilan

pointed. out the companies involved —.

Skeena Cellulose (TFL 1) and

Sawmills (TFL 41) — were putting together. _
new management plans for those areasand —
"doing it through much the same process.

; Anticipating the forest sérvice would

Industry to

Process ‘doesn’t mean those lands will be
‘treated differently from the rest of the -

Downie"

Skeena +
" habitat Protection,”

‘in the South

the working forest;

The Forest Service's ex-
perience with the Thunderbird
project had also shown the
‘keen Public interest’? in
forestry i Issues,

The level of that interest had
been underscored even this early
‘Kalum_ process
through . the phone, ‘calls ‘and

‘submissions the district office

had already.” ‘received -from

members of the buble,

play a role

+" doubtless hear. about any concerns about
‘areas within the TFLs during the courseof:.
“its South Kalum review,

. would be passed on to the. companies,’ -,

The forest service would also expect the.”
‘companies final plan to
_ those concerns, +] expect the licencees will,
.comeé up with answers to’ bio-diversity and :
-Downie said.

* As with the district's own plan, the com-
panies’ Proposals had to be approved by

the province's chief forester who would ex-
Pect them ‘to » have dealt, With. the’ same

issues.

he said -those .

address any of.

lands.

ble nauseating smell the
other mills have. Well if they
do have something to prevent

Dear Sir:

The slowdown of the
Kemano project has caused
dislocation and demoraliza-
tion to many of our
members, The hopes for
longer term, relatively secure
employment (within the con-
struction context) were dash-
ed when Alcan reversed its
decision to continue work
pending a court appeal.
The crux of the problem is
almost entirely dependent
upon how the history of the
development is. viewed.
Above and beyond all else,
had the senior levels ‘of

. “Our concern is the i management Plans
are consistent on both sides of the line,’’.
_ forest service planner Glenn Smith, added,
‘painting out the companies’ management
- working plans, when completed, were sub-
_ Mitted first to the local office. :
He also noted representatives of both
Skeena Cellulose and*:Skeena Sawmills
would be involved in the South Kalumi pro-
cess and would therefore know what objec-
tives the forest service was setting on its

. government agreed to a
_public inquiry process 15
‘years ago, this circumstance
“would: never have occurred.
“This public inquiry was
2 “demanded by a broad section
of <the communities
>throughout the north,

«!: Instead, the senior govern-
“Ments chose to enter into a
:process and a deal- with

participation. This led to the
court’ challenge and the rul-
ing that nullified the 1987,

Lodge

Dear Sir:

I'm writing about the June
‘19 article on Terraceview
Lodge.

“TERRACE — The forest ser-

On the South Kalum plan in -
- January this’ year and it will

cp process : feaches. its . concly-+
fon. :

"|| have been contacted and sup-
qe. Bem @ package outlin-
4. ing the planning process and

yi its: aeahon

. ch Millian recreational
af jatereats aa well as industry,

|. events Jn-expected to be:
1 we forest ‘service “Fen

Vice began preparatory work | -

_-: forest. ‘management.
: be late next year ‘before the”

So* far: 90- organizations aa

’. ment. outlining, Various ‘op-

° ticular’: Interes
" government and native: an ane
J the draft goes toa pu ci

“From. here, -the-‘chain “of.” meeting-workshop for

vironment ministry represen-
tative meet. with each: to:get.
their: yiews on the forests and
That’

will likely take until this fall

to complete, .

_ © the results ‘of. those.
meetings area sifted by a
planning team — three forest ‘:
service, one environment and;
oné federal. fisheries member’,

— to produce:a draft docu!”

tioris both:dn a.broad scale’
and for any: arog: iof pers

‘fevlewicg: 5

group of those options to be

| Subjected : to; more , . detailed

analysis, a
ue. ‘technical ~ “information

“on forests, recreation and

- fish -and wildlife resources is
Plugged i in-at this point here
and “with-experts from
*warlous! ‘agencies examining

- each option to assess its ef-

“fects in. Abeir: ‘aren of respon-
‘ sibility;
Tesults of ‘the detailed
analyses are brought back to
“another : ‘Public meeting for
feview and revision,
© thé-now. fine-tuned op-
lon analyses and accompa-
tiying: ‘Kecdmmendations are.
aide to the, province's
‘approval. -

e*a draft

“ resource

“management plan js prepared’
to include details such as the-

annual allowable cut

Kalum South, .

for

® afler one final. oppor-
‘tunity for public review, the
completed management plan

is approved and
plemented, probably in the

fall of 1992.

Yet to ‘be decided’ é
‘whether an advisory body
will be. formed:to. Monitor.
‘implementation: of, ‘the: plan J
but follow-up projects are

im-

‘expected in ensuing years to
“fill any. inventory: informa-
tion gaps detected during this

PROCESS, . ; jog.

The people here haven't
‘been treated meanly at any
time or in any way.
‘The people up here are reat.
i. o special people and they're
» |, treated in a real special way.
wil! ‘ve been here since May and ”
ve. been treated royally,

In a letter to the editor i in
last week’s paper a man ask-
ed who were the power peo- °

Yes, that is what we’ "d like

It seems like.a small group

’ the pulp mill must not know ”

_ and out of your car and take |

Alcan shutdown
harms. workers: ‘

. reivew process in the face of

. tunities, others arranged the

“Alcan that excluded public |
a. fir

_ Same thing. They're Very
_ good things to Say‘about, the -

‘hardworking people. .

Vote required |
for pulp mill |

thai, which remains - to be
seen, then why have the peo- *.
ple in other towns have to : :
suffer.

Furthermore, they say that
mil) will not have any ef-
fluent; in other words no li-~
quid waste. How can that be °
possible when even the
smallest household not mat-
ter how careful, has an ef-
fluent? “as .

They also say, that mill
will produce a high grade of -
paper. High grade quality
needs high grade wood. Does ©
that mean they will extract”
high grade timber and leave
the low grade in the bush to.
rot, thereby logging , ‘Vast ~
areas to Bet the quality. they
need,

To put that mill next door .
to Lakelse Lake,: our only .
recreation lake, highly adver- |. :
tised as a resort area, is”
distasteful and irresponsible.. -

One more thing. A few.:
years-ago a study of the cor: ; i
ridor between Terrace and
Kitimat - was done, _ they ©

‘found that the soil in’ that
area is the best-in the whole -
valley — - ideal growing situa-
‘tion. That alone should keep
any kind of industrialization
out of that area in order to
grow another forest for the
next generation.

We think the time has
come that before any deci-:
sions like that are made, the
People have to have a
referendum.

After all we, the taxpayers,
have a right too. ;

Sincerely,
Mrs Ortrud Buschmann
Terrace, B.C,

deal.

The arrangements made by
ihe governments and Alcan
may or may not be en-
Vironmentally sound; this
judgment is not ours to
make, However, what can be
said about the court decision
is that is preserves the integri-
ty of the environmental

government-corporate deals,
The more immediate con-
cern is how the slowdown
was effected. On the basis of .
the original decision to con-
tinue construction, many of —
our members made decisions
to accept employment. Some
passed up other oppor-

required health examinations
at their own expense. This
has created some bitterness, |
Yours truly,
Paul Johnston,
Legal Defense
Co-ordinator,
B.C. Provincial
- Council of
‘Carpenters
Vancouver, B.C,

anything of physical abuse at
any time, I've talked to alot -
of people and they’say- the ::

satisfied with the care they're
getting, ve” ‘Rothing but

people: ‘who work® here. |
They're: good and. honest -

~ Anne Daumont © =.
"Terrace: B.C,

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ary” for * confi rmation

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équests’ ‘for
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published soonest, mane

granted in extraordinary cir.
cumstances,

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be submitted to the "Card of’.
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