by Michael Kelly Tree Farm Licence #1 was the first TFL created in B.C. and it was the largest in area until the ’ Kalum North section was removed from it in the early 1980’s. The tenure covers most of the lower Nass Valley and much of the pub- lic forest land around Terrace. The research and technical work, draft- ing and writing of a- five-ycar Management and Working Plan (MWP) for it is a massive under- taking. . The tenure is held by Skeena Cellulose Incorporated, owner of the Terrace sawmil! and the Watson Island pulp mill near Pririce Rupert, a division of Repap Enterprises, a Montreal-based multinational integrated forest company. Dan Tuomi, SCI's woodlands manager, is the chief agent in creating the company’s _ management and working plan for its Northwest tenure. "It’s a contract with the Ministry of Forests, and it’s the most im- portant document next to the on INFLAT SIDEWINDER. ‘Light Truck RY Mud Terrain De licence," Tuomi says of the MWP. The plan addresses the company’s goals and objectives, its forest management strategies and its intended procedures for operating in the timber over the next five years. But in recent years the creation of an MWP has come to involve far more than commercial forestry considerations. "In the past we dealt mainly with government agencies... the minis- tries of forests and environment, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans," Tuomi says. "Once it was approved we would go to the public and they had 30 days to respond. "Now, there’s a lot more public input from the beginning. We get a dialogue going, and people can tell us their concerns — slash and broadcast buming, the use of herbicides, rate of cut, the size of the cutblocks. It's a large area, and there are many interests." Forester Archie MacDonald is also deeply involved in the MWP process. He figures to date he has met on one or more occasions with at least 15 different local groups who have special interests in SCI’s licence area. Aside from provincial and federal government agencies, the interest groups include regional and local governments, native tribal councils and band councils, wildlife and recreational fishing organizations and trappers. TFL #1 covers an area of 600,000 hectares yielding 720,000 cubic metres of commercial saw- logs and pulp fogs per year. Creat- ing this eighth five-year manage- ment and working plan for it will ultimately consume two years from beginning to the final draft. It will cover SCI’s intentions for using — or not using — the land for every- thing from timber cutting to stream preservation. Tuomi said the plan begins with the established Annual Allowable Cut and works forward from that. Numerous new developments will affect the plan now under develop- ment. Skeena Cellulose is undertaking a new resource inventory on the tenure in cooperation with the Ministry of Forests, including digital mapping of the area. 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YAMAHA, REDUCED FROM $4,999 Now SAVE SPECIAL $3,699. + D.D. and TAXES Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 8, 1991 C17 New inventory, public concerns drive planning _ for Tree Farm Licence #1 — operations and procedures from September 1990, Tuomi indicates that the inventory will help the company examine the sustainable harvest Jevels ~~ the rate timber can be cut annually while still remaining within the forest’s abil- ity to regenerate — to check the annual rate of cut. This year 3,000 hectares of land was subtracted from TFL #1 when, with SCI’s cooperation, the new park at Tseax (Lava) Lake was established in the Nass Valley, a deletion that will have to be taken into account when the annual rate of cut is calculated. The plan will also address silviculture, both replanting areas to be cut and replanting by 1993 the 1,500 hectare backlog of Not Sufficiently Restocked lands within TFL #1. Other sections outline plans for protecting the forest from insect infestation and fire, review- ing the area for recreation possibil- ities and landscape management needs, planning for further inte- grated resource management, and provisions for greater public in- volvement in the way SCI manages the forest. . The Graphic Information System computer network that SCI acquired has helped the process, allowing Tuomi and his staff to create a variety of models that will project the consequences of several different management ideas. For Management and Working Plan #8, meetings with interest groups have been going on for months, and public meetings will be held in August when the first draft of the plan is ready for release. Further meetings will be held when the final draft is pre- pared in October, and there will be a final review of the finished plan in November. Management and Working Plan #8 goes into effect at the end of December this year, and will be in effect until December 1996. That means the process begins anew for Skeena Cellulose and the residents of the region in the spring of 1994. Logger doggerel by Stephanie Wiebe Talk to anyone in the forest industry, and you’ll be talking to an interesting person. But how can you tell the difference between, say, a logger, an industry executive or a forester? Simple — the logger talks in acronyms, and the forester speaks to trees and then studies them to determine the effects. Loggerese is a colourful lan- the high-lead show in a crummy, wearing stagged tin pants and carrying a nosebag. English trans- lation: A good skilled logger rides to the tall centre tree on a site, in a truck wiih a long roofed box, wearing baggy canvas pants cut off to boot level, and carrying a lunch- bucket. Loggers don’t just have a job under control, they have it by the face. Bushed loggers aren’t tired, they're slightly crazy from so much time in camp, perhaps work- ing for a gunnysack outfit, a disor- ganized company. The industry executives, ofien referred to by loggers as the white- shirts, speak in acronyms. They talk about the AAC on the TFL, the FRDA, FIR, COFI and a BLT. This is the Annual Allowable Cut on the Tree Farm License, the Forest Resource Development Agreement, Forest Industrial Rela- tions, the Council of Forest Indus- tries, and a bacon-lettuce-and- tomato sandwich (should the dis- cussion take place over lunch). Conversations among themselves are short. Greeting: "H-H-A-Y?" (Hello, how are you?) Reply: "G- A-T-F-F-T" (Good, and the family's fine, too.) Some of these people wake up in the A.M., down a V-8 for breakfast, drive their GMC to the office, reciling capital letlers all the way. And then there are the foresters. speaks loggerese, the executive. guage. A bull of the woods rides to People in silviculture understand -all the initials, have heard the loggerese, and are conducting research to determine which lan- guage the trees prefer. These people will do anything for better trees; mention that the trees might like to hear Swahili cuss-words and you'll soon find a forester whispering "Uga-moo-poo" to a Sitka Spruce. This is not an un- reasonable assumption about folks who religiously track porcupine populations, feed innumerable squirrels, cover seedlings with plastic tubes, and for all we know, swing on vines through the TFL woods. Just imagine these characters together on a coffee break. You could pick ‘em out a mile away. "Coffee? These gunnysackers don’t make decent coffee. I’ve got some in my nosebag out in the crummy." "N-T-1-T-T-C-D." (No thanks, I’m trying to cut down.) "Coffee... I think we tried coffee, but it stunted the growth of lodge- pole pines," Yes, the many languages and linguists of the forest industry are entertaining. You can discover this for yourself — just put on your stagged tin pants, hitch onto a crummy, and go talk to the trees. Y-H-A-G-T (you'll have a great lime), and the trees will love it.