~ INSIDE SPORTS MENU C2 _” SKEENA ANGLER | ROB BROWN OIL HAS suffered great abuse be- cause it so abundant it has been regarded as virtually inexhaustible. To keep up with the demands of a . growing market and remain competitive ina giant ' centralized system of agriculture North American farmers have bought the lincs sold them by the likes of Dow and Monsanto and developed a | chemical dependency which has Jed to the pollu- ' tion of an ocean of this continent’s soil through . the extensive and intensive use of herbicides and chemical fertilizers. _. Poor planning and greed has led to another greal - loss of invaluable soil that has been buried as housing developments sprawled across the landscape. In the forest that wonderful, thriving organic | cammunity called soil is fundamental to the con- tinued prosperity and well-being of the entire ; forest. Soil is the true capital of the forest. Despite . its obvious and overwhelming imporlance, we- . aggressive, driven, hard-nosed industrial society ’ that we arc-- have gloried in an growth and maintained Hlusory and confused notions of wealth and well-being as the people we charged with managing our forests have baked the soil, removed ils protective vegetative cover and ex- posed it to the devastating forces of wind and waler. Soil is amazing stuff. We’ve got to stop _ treating it like dirt. Water is everywhere; it is critical to everything. Only: a fool would suggest. otherwise, yet our society has treated this basic clement of existence as shabbily as dirt. Like dirl, water was held to be limitless. The hypodermic necdlcs washing up on the beaches on ihe Eastern Seaboard are a grisly | measure of modern societies’ pollution power: a power we have just as carelessly inflicted upon our precious supplics of fresh water. Formerly great aquifers have been poisoned and depleted, Tivers have been fouled to such an extent that they can no longer sustain life. Estuaries all over the word have been fouled to such a extent they may be beyond redemption. As Jacques Cousteau ob- served, if the earth were an egg, its fresh water would be no more than a tiny droplet at one end. Still we continue to be profligate users of water. In the forest landscape water sustains and con- necis all. The arteries for the aqueous lifeblood of the'system are the rivulets, creeks, and rivers run- ning through riparian corridors. Yet these critical ‘corridors and their supportive hillsides are the very places upon which contemporary forest prac- lices heaps the greatest abuse, Environmenialists, backed by scientific understanding, have fought vigorously {o preserve small bands of limber along: the morc prominent of these waterways. Were it not for their cfforis you can be assured there would be virlually no leave sirips alongside even these sites. Even so, the leave strips along ~-our rivers and crecks are hardly enough Lo protect their integrity, while scores of equally critical smaller walter courses, because they have no sports fish values, have been ruined, In his excellent essay Putting Wholistic Forest Use Into Practice, Herb Hammond, professional forester and ecologist, pleads for managerial recognition for the vital part these riparian cor- ridors play in the functioning of a sustainable forest. First, says Hammond, planners need to accep! thai all uses have to be ecologically responsible requiring the protection of biological diversity al all scales, and must also recognize that human and non-human uses need to be balanced across the landscape. ‘Then we must assemble a dala base which includes descriptions of the ecosystems within the forest landscape and a calalog of past human use togelher proposed human uses. Next a thorough analysis of the ecological landscape must be undertaken with the context of the time and space within which the dynamic of the forest unfolds. As this analysis is done ecosystems too sensilive for human use must be identified as well as ihe network of protected ecosystems necessary for the sustained functioning of the forest. ‘When this phase is complete forest use zones ,must be established for specific uses including, cullure, recreation, wildemess, ranching, mining, trapping, and tourism, all within the network of protected ccosystems, and with regard for fish and wildlife: habital and ecologically sensitive " zones not identified at the larger landscape evel. At this point in the process it is time to crunch numbers: the economics of the proposed uses need to be calculated considering the cosis and benefits to various human users as well as the ecosystem while comparing the short and ‘long (erm economics of competing potentlal uses, Finally a land use plan is developed providing for ecologically responsible and balanced uses across the landscape. During this part of the pro- cess clear standards to ensure accountability for actions and effective communication are estab- lished. In Hammond’s vision communities must be empowered to make these decisions by con- sensus, . TERRACE STANDARD The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 25, 1994- C1 SECTION C MALCOLM BAXTER 638-7283 Cal golfers to head south IT WAS A different come-from- behind ‘‘victory’’ for Caledonia in this year’s schools golf zone championships. The five member team came oul of day one of the 36-hele playoff in good shape. Battling blustery weather, wet conditions and several temporary greens on Kilimat’s Hirsch Creck course, the Cal quintet.ended the first round two strokes up on Kitimat. However, the arrival of sunshine the following day worked against the Terracites. The host team, led by Jamic Moran, caught fire while Cal’s game faded. Mike Vandermuellen was con- sistent with 82s on cach day bul couldn’t match Moran. One of the province’s top golfcrs in his age group, Moran followed an open- ing round of 81 with a strong 73. With a scoring system thal totalled the best four, two-day (al- lies. in determining ihe winner, that meant the rest of the Cal team had to outshoot their Kitimat counterparts by 11- strokes to take the zone litle. Bul the hosts proved too strong all the way down their line-up, marching to a 16 stroke victory, But it wiil still be Cal who head for Vernon as northwest represen- tatives at next week’s B.C. high school championships. Explaining the contradiction, Cal coach Clayton Lloyd-Jones said Kitimat were unable to get a team together for the event, Therefore, as runners-up in the zones, Cal stepped up to fill the gap. Even Cal will not be going with their strongest team, Lloyd-Jones pointed out, noting David Kozier and Devon VanHulle will be un- able to make the trip, But Cal can still be expected to give it their all -when Vandermuellen, Shane DeJong, Craig Lewis, Terry Smith and Kevin Cage step out on to the Predator Ridge course, one of B.C.’s finest according to Lloyd- Jones. ; Alter a practice round on Mon- day, May 30, the golfers po into a: two-day, 36-hole tournament - ending Wednesday, June 1: Lioyd-Jones doesn’t minimize the task facing the Cal quintet. They’!l be coming off a four week scason and. up against southern golfers who've been out on the course for four months. Bul whatever the outcome, he said the competition would be food experience for next year. That’s because four of the Cal five are in grade 11 so will have one more shot in "95 at tackling the provincials. LOCAL PUGALIST Amy Kebernik shows the fire and stance that took her to the top at the 1994 Golden Gloves. Golden girl makes history By DANA HUBLER AMY KEBERNIK became part of BC boxing history when she stepped into the ring at the first Golden Gloves to allow females. And celebrated with two decisive victories for her division's title. The only woman from the Terrace club to fight at the May 13- 14 tournament in New Westminster, the 16-ycar-ald disposed of her first opponent just 58 seconds into the fight. Her final opponent, a 25-year-old, lasted a little longer, the referee stepping in to stop the bout at 1.05 of the second and give Kebemik the gold medal in the novice women’s class. Why boxing? Kebernik says she had a choice between (hat or karate. “‘My mom was putting us kids in karate for self-defense, but 1 didn’t want to do what everyone else was doing,’’says Kebernik, a student at Lakelse Junior High. realistic, more useful and I'm a 90s woman.’’ While other provinces and the United States have a longer his- lory of women’s boxing than BC, the Terrace club has had at least one woman since it started, “The whole sport for girls is going through growing pains,” says coach Jeff Dilley. ‘‘Amy was in only the second girls’ fight in BC at the Silver Gloves in Vernon.” Dilley is prepared 10 coach women boxers if they show the desire to train and a genuine love of the sport. Skeptical of the in-' terest from women in boxing at first, Dilley now sees them in his club as meeting these requirements — they simply like competi- tion, want to get in shape and learn self-defense, The rash of adrenalin she feels boxing will keep Kebernik in the sport, gaining more experience each time she enters the ring, “It’s helped to raise my self-estecm,"’she says, ‘‘I have much more confidence because J know I’m taking care of myself.’’ Her male teammates took a while getting used to sparring with a female, says both Kebernik: and Dilley. ‘‘Now it’s cool with them,”’ she says. ‘‘T’m just like one of them.”’ a According to Dilley, the guys reaction to the women depended on their age. ‘'The more mature guys just took it in stride, while some of the younger guys showed a more macho reaction.’* Kebernik usually ends up sparring with the guys because there are few partners for her, adds Dilley. ‘‘] tell the guys to hold back a bit, but they seem to do it naturally,”’ The only time Dilley coaches her differently, says Kebernik, is when he’s proud of her. “When he feels like I’ve done a’good job, he expresses it a lot more to me than to the guys.”’ Not a bad inequality. “Boxing is more For more Golden Gloves results see Sport Scope on page C3. Evans ready to take on the province SEVEN RACES, seven wins and six personal bests, Dylan Evans, 10, made it clear al the Northwest Regional championships that he is ready for the provincial ‘AAA's. New to the Blucbacks this year, the young South African provided Terrace with its lone gold medal as he blew away the opposition in the Sam Lindsey pool in Kitimat, “Not too many of his races could be called close,’’ coach Mike Carlyle said of the results. Evans’ most impressive im- provements came at the 200m distance where he sliced two sec- onds off his previous best in ihe Free and nearly five seconds in the Individual Medley. “‘He’d poing to have fun at the provincials,’’ Carlyle predicted. - Providing another highlight at ‘the regionals were Terrace’s strong contingent of 13-14 years boys, Garth Coxford, Jamie Kerman, Jamie Kerman re YOU’ VE GOT to feel for Jamie Kerman. He’s had a solid season, posting steady personal bests and picking up medals, In Kitimat the long-awaited breakthrough in the 100m Fly happened as he carved two seconds of his previous fastest to post another ‘AAA! time. But Jamie, 14, hasa birthday coming up. And it falls at just the wrong time. According to rules, he'll be considered tao old to be allowed to swim in the 13-14 year-old group but alsa too yourrg to be qualified for the Seth Downs and Kevin Andol- fatto were in baltle royal through- oul the mect, the final point spread for the quartet being just five points. Coxford sewed up the silver medal in his final event, the 100m Fly, his win giving him just a single point edge over Fly runner-' up and bronze teammate Jamie ‘ Kerman in the final tally. One point was also the margin by which Coxford missed out on gold. Caught in the birthday trap - 15-year-olds' events. So when he hits the water at Victoria's Commonwealth Bowl pool for the Senior provincials the First weekend of July, he'll be facing opponents 17 years and up. Including members of the National team. Although that rules out the chance of any medals, Blueback coach Mike Carlyle points out Jamie will be able to come away with a special experience: having swum in one of the country’s finest pools and against some of Canada’s best. And watch out next year. The Bluebacks also dominated in the 11-12 years girls, Marina Checkley taking silver, Audrey Erb bronze with Stacey Parr just two points back in fourth, - Carlyle said he was particularly = pleased to scc almost all the swimmers put in finals’ times faster than their heats. “*Tt showed they Tose to the oc- casion and pushed themselves that little extra,’ he added, Another plus was the number of ‘AA’ or ‘AAA’ qualifying times, double the normal percentage for a single meet. Bo, For Judy Stevenson, however, achieving a ‘AAA’ time in the 50m Back had down side.— it knocked her out of that event at the ‘AA’ level. 7 , But that still leaves her with nine events for what will be her first provincial championship. - Also catching fire was another. 10-year-old, ‘Tamara Checkley. ° Having posted her first ‘AA’ time - in the 50m Free just three’ weeks . carlicr here, she jumped ‘straight to ‘AAA’ In the same event In Kitimat. = Bs Carlyle praised the efforis of the 7-9 year olds who stacked up. - personal bests. They don’t get lo. swim finals, he pointed out, but: they brought home '‘tons of:ribs- | bons’. wo