By COLETTE ST, AMOUR
OLD REMO — Pigs, goats,
sheep, chickadees -and: voles

‘have replaced -the grap-

pleyarder, feller-buncher. and
-bulldozer as forestry. tools for
an Old Remo man: -
.-Agriforestry, which combines
. farming with |. forestry, uses
* animals to control. insects, mix
* the soil and ‘kill off alder, says
' Bill Hayes.

‘ - The animals get their food
from the forest, and are sold in
turn for food, alder i is used for
firewood; nothing is wasted.

‘Instead of f managing his land
for a single"species. of trees, as
‘do conventional foresters,
Hayes has a wide variety of
species because he says all are
needed for a healthy forest.

; While walking the well-worn |

paths of his forest, he said an
important part of aariforestry is
that someone is on the land cat-
ching problems before they get
out of control.

“You can’t manage a forest : —_

THIS PIG is actually a rototiller in a unique type of forestry practised by Bill Hayes in Old Remo. He
control disease and mix up the soil in his forest: Hayes
saying all are needed for a balanced a and healthy forest.

from a desk in a city,’’ says
Hayes in adding that’s where
the current forestry system is
failing,

Hayes, who used to have a
business thinning and spacing
trees, selectively logged his

forest three years ago and won't .

log it again for another 15.

_ He's now planting spruce and -

cedar seedlings and’ cutting
down deciduous trees for

firewood. The trees he’s cutting” -

—- alder and. spruce — have
been killed by his sheep and
goats which cut off nutrient
- supply by éating bark from the
trees,

The brush ieft over from the

trees isn’t burned and instead is .

left in the forest as compost to

put nitrogen into the soil,
Although Hayes does control

the number of alder trees in his’

forest; he does let some grow”

because they also add nitrogen

uses animals from his farm to keep brush down,
also has a wide varlety of trees and: plants,

An old. McDonald’ S farm_
approach to forest use

to the soil.

the forest floor and helps young.
trees to grow,

It’s important to have a forest.
of trees of varying ages because.
it is more resistant to ‘disease

than one where the trees, are of -

the same age, Hayes adds. ~~

Disease and insects can also
be kept down by birds. like
chickadees or kestrels, so Hayes
builds birdhouses and keeps old
trees in the forest in which birds
can nest.

“If you clearcut the birds just
aren’t there, and you create a-
forest that is vulnerable.’ ‘he

iMost foresters
think they’re garbage,” he said. :
‘The sheep and the goats also
eat'a lot of the underbrush and -
that lets light filter through to

¢

says. |...

The birds’ eat insects like the
tent caterpillar, which cases
foresters problems because they:
lay .eggs'in bark and cut. off
nutrients,

“Hayes” also puts more
nutrients in his ground by let-
ting his pigs run in the forest
where they dig up the soil like a
rototiller, making it more fer-
tile.

‘Pigs love to eat worms and
roots; they are real rooting
animals,” he says.

Pointing:to big holes in the

" ground of his forest, Hayes said

the pigs also eat ferns which
compete with small seedlings
for light.

_The vole is another animal,

Hayes tries to. lure inio his
forest, ;
Conventional. clearcutting
eliminates the habitat for voles
but that’s wrong: because they
are an important food for
martens .and fishers which are

predators of the porcupine that .

kill trees by eating the bark off
them, says Hayes.

He feels the attitudes of
foresters are changing, and the
biggest problem is “‘the People
set in the old ways.’”” .

“I used to battle with the
foresters a lot, but we're ex-
changing ideas now,” he says in
noting that their. experiments
are encouraging but primitive.

“I think agriforestry is the

way of the future,’’ says Hayes. .

TERRACE — Work has started
on a large community centre at
. the Kitselas band’s Kulspai sub-
, division on Queensway, '
The 45X92 square foot, one-
_ floor structure will be built in
longhouse style and is scheduled
. to open in time for the band’s
’ Christmas party, band manager
Wilf McKenzie said last week.
He estimated the land and
building could have cost more
‘than $300,000 but that the
‘ amount needed has been reduc-
ed because of a federal grant to
hire and train five band
‘ carpenters and by help by a
’ local sawmill in supplying cedar
poles.
-« “We asked to buy some of
_ Our own “cedar back,”’ said
_ McKenzie of a request made to
Skeena Cellulose and in
. Teference to land claims in ad--

. ding the cedar wanted comes

. from Kitselas band Jand east of
. Terrace...
° He estimated the hall will be

able to seat more than 400 peo-..
” ple ‘for banquets and more for -

: conventions ‘and other ‘gather
‘ings. é .

buildi

“Up ‘witi! now we haven’ t
had a place to meet and there is
a growing demand for such
facilities,"’ said McKenzie.

The hall is just one of several
longhouse projects of varying
size being undertaken by the
Kitselas band.

It recently finished a small
longhouse that now serves as a
carving shed, is building
another, large shed for carving
and wants to build one measur-
ing 25X36 feet in which to hoid
native art classes.

As’ well, the band will start
work this September on another
building to house its administra-

. tion offices and those of Nar-

thern Native Broadcasting.
The building will measure

more than 7,000 square feet, the |

majority of which will be rented
to the broadcasting outlet. Nor-
thern Native’ Broadcasting is
now based on Lazelle Ave., pro-

i. viding satellite radio programm.

ing’.to. more. than 20 -com-
“munities in the province, .
McKenzie said that structure

- should « ‘also be ready by.

_ December.

ing a hall.

“KITSELAS chief Mel Bevan and administrator Wilf McKenzie look
“over the’ beginning stages of.a community hall going up on the
band's Kulspai subdivision on Queensway. It'll be large enough to
seat 400 at at banquets and is designed in longhouse style.

“Refugee finds home i in Terrace

. TERRACE — Six years of
+ Waiting ended in a two-day
. Journey by plane when

. Bstifanos Teweldebrhan arrived
. here in April.

Estifanos, 28, is a Christian
and an Eritrean from Ethiopia.

. That meant there were two
_ strikes against him for Ethiopia
* is a Marxist state and his home
* region of Eritrea has been at
~ war for 29 years because it
” wants to. become its own coun-

. Sponsored by the Terrace
' Pentecostal Assembly,

" Estifanos spent the six years in
the Sudan waiting for country
_ that would take him. | -
’ His flight: from Ethiopia to

Sudan took place one year he ‘

; was jailéd | for three weeks,
‘beaten and tortured.
‘Such practice is common,
Says . ‘Estifanos,. “because - the
./ Ethiopian authorities . want to
-* intimidate people... *

: oo

th watch: you, They: want: you:

want you to attend'chuirch,

oSBven when I. was let. out, :

to! study: Marxist-Leninism. in-
“tend « of the Bible! They: don't.

Estlfanos Teweldebrhan

~ Botifanos was also a student

and then a teacher at a Christian .

school in Eritrea and that also’
‘made him a person to. be watch. -
ed by the Ethiopian aiithorities.
~ His ‘decision to leave’ came"
after “authorities” ‘visited his 7

one night and a week later, we
escaped,”’ said Estifanos,

Escape involved crossing a
desert between Ethiopia and
Sudan in extreme heat, without
food and without water. The
eight-day journey took place on
camels.

“It was my first time (on a
camel) and’ my last time,”
Estifanos said.

He was: luckier than most
refugees because he didn't
spend all of his time in camps.
A job followed as assistant
cashier at the American em-
bassy commisary in the
Sudanese capital.

Estifanos now works at a
local convenience store and will
study English before deciding
Upon a career.

He does want to return to his
home ‘someday but only after

. there is peace,
Although alone in Terrace,
Estifanos is not the first person

the local Penccostal church,

Ine! friend lived here and is

“now'finishing nursing studles at
CIT: While another is studying

is

no: ales in Toronto, |

from his church to be helped by ’

aot he aad

OL ae, Dhan a thegend te het eee te

The nursing student was first
sponsored by another organiza-_
tion but that arrangement fell

apart when she arrived in~
‘Canada while the economics

student was living in the United
States and could have been
deported back to Ethiopia, says
pastor John Caplin.

He described the process of
sponsoring refugees as. lengthy
— Estifanos arrived in Canada

just three weeks shy of the third |
anniversary of the original ap- —

plication.
There may be some hope for
Eritrea as the Ethiopian govern-

ment now says it wants to -

negollate.
But there are still: people |
waiting for a country; says.

Estifanos, and they deserve an

opportunity.
“There's no hope to stay in|

Sudan if you don’t have a spon- -
sorship or family to send for -

you,” he said.
“There are many refugees in'
Sudan who need help, some one -

_ to ‘sponsor * them, Maybe, if :

there Is somebody willing , they |
will get a chance to eet cha I

i

New; gun cont
proposal: said -

% ol |

G

ns

to be ludicrous:

Dear Sir:
Tu the past few decades

owners aye seen
new gun control legislation .

introduced in an attempt’ to
curtail a growing crime pro-
blem, ©

In the 1980s this move-
ment escalated in the United
States to near frenzied pro-
portions because of tragedies
that occurred such as the one
in Stockton, California.

Uatil recently Canada has
seen Httle in the way of
drastic reform to gun control
laws. Present laws allowed -
recreational shooters,
hunters and sportsmen
enough freedom: to’ pursue
their-interests.

Some of us fell that they
were already. too restrictive
and we watched what was
happening in. the U.S. with
growing apprehension.

~ ‘Then in December of 1989. -

a lunatic named Mare Lepine

brutally murdered 14 women

in Montreal. Canada as a na-

_tion was outraged and the

anti-gun movement took this
opportunity to launch a new
campaign.
Surprisingly a few law en-
forcement agencies issued
pro-gun statements saying
Lepine, not the firearm, was
responsible for their deaths
and that stricter gun control

was not the answer, : ‘ :
Criminals and peyehotles :
are not going to ‘be: deterred

by stiffer legisIation.:.... J

Our new justice minister, -
Kim Campbell, has proposed | .
mew legislation, I. ‘find it. |:
ludicrous that anyone could
believe that this would be a

* viable solution to. the Pro-
blem. .

I, and. many other
members of the shooting
community, refuse to accept
this or any other -restrictive
proposals governing gun
" control. ‘

You cannot legislate
against insanity. We are not
Opposed to increased public
education on firearms handl-
img and safety, We- endorse
that concept whole-
heartedly,

We would welcome the op-
Portunity to cooperate with
‘government, developing
some productive poilcles to
achieve this goal.

Law abiding citizens must
stand up for thelr rights and
lend a hand to shape a future
a Canadians can be > Proud
o e ‘

_ Fred Straw,
_. President,
_ Ferrace Rod and
"Gun Club.

These tourists
_ won t return.

” Dear Sli” .
We, as visitors — or
‘aliens’ as your fishing

regulations describe us —
would like to make a few
comments on your newly-
established fishing fees for
those of us from outside the
province of B.C.

No. 1: We feel that $10 per
fishing rod per day was
established to tell us to stay
at home. This being the case,
we are going to do just that.

We understand. that this
fee was adopted:to give the
residents of .B.C. a better
chance to fish. It is most cer-
tainly doing the job because
tourists who would normally
stay for a month or two are
leaving for their home or go-
ing straight through to
Alaska. .

No. 2: We wonder how the
residents of B.C. would react
if the U.S. imposed a tax
upon every B.C.’ resident
who crossed the border to

buy groceries, “gas, ‘eté.,
because they they are so
much cheaper in the U.S,

Now, this influx of people
is causing a hardship on the
U.S. residents in the cities
along the border. This de-
mand has increased the price
of all commodities in. these
cities, ;

No. 3: We have been
guests of the City of Terrace
for 1} years, ‘and most cer-
tainly have given benefits to
the economy of this region.
We have enjoyed ourselves
here immensely, spent lots of
money. Sad to say, we won't
be back.

You. can’t promote
tourism by imposing such an
unreasonable fee against the
tourist. |

Mr. and Mrs. Bert
L. Spangler,
‘P.O, Box 32,
- Enumclaw,
_, Washington.

Drinkers litter
~ far too much

‘Dear Sir:

I wonder why people who
drink. beer feel the need to
leave thelr bottles (intact or
broken) and cans to ltter
paths and lake and river
shores,

I think anyone old enough
to be at the recreational areas

avallable to us here is ako

able to bring home thelr tins

and bottles and not create lit-
ter and danger for bare feet.
Broken glass and tins hurt.
“For those who are not
able, perhaps the adults or
guardians with them would
help create a clean and
healthy environment.’

‘+ Lynn Buckle,
- Terrace, B.C.

‘

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