The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - A? James W. Radelet RADELET & COMPANY Banisters & Solicitors Tax Law * Trusts © Corporate & Commercial 1329 - 1075 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, 8.C. VOE 3C? Phone: 604-689-0878 fax: 604-689-1386 NOTES FROM, im WATERSHED Beaver/Coho Study Many !ocal people believe that the Kitimat River watershed has more beavers and beaver dams than would naturally be present as a result of extensive logging. Two tributaries of the Kitimat River, - MeNeill Creek and Goose Creck, were the subjects of a study undertaken by the Haisla Fisheries Commission to determine if adult coho spawners, migrating upstream, were encountering barriers of beaver dams and collapsed bridges and were unable to reach their spawning grounds. . NOTES FROM, “WATERSHED Thank You of $6 2 These ads have been funded by Fisheries Renewal sons : BC through Terrace and Kitimat Partners for 7 : Salmonids to communicate to our community where dollars have been spent in our watersheds and what these dollars have accomplished. : ~ FOR ASSISTAN al POLL FREE! The author of “Notes From the Watershed” -. Rena Gibson Protzner would like to thank the following people for their input to the ads and to recognize them for their personal efforts in restoring and benefiting our local fish populations; 2a errs ons, Each creck was asseased on foot, from the mouth upstream. Possible barriers to coho migration were * te Cecilia Batagelj - documented and mapped. Adult coho spawners H 4 ‘ey k : B Northwest Stewardship Society, were also counted and their distribution mapped. | e S ac 6 McNeill Creck was found to have only one possible - Debra Stokes - barrier to fish migration at low water (a collapsed bridge) and only one recent beaver activity along the shore, Goose Creek was found to have six possihle barriers (beaver dams) that were large enough to obstruct fish passage during low water FORMER ALLIANCE MP Mike Scott may be gone, but he’s not entirely for- gatten as this slightly altered sign on Hwy3? leading to the airport shows. The sign had been covered up by a new one for current Skeena Alliance MP Andy Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Lars Reese-Hansen - Kitsumkaium Band Council i ; rneath to see inaiveh but Somebody evidently thought they d take a peek undernea Lyle Bolton - Fo ee eet boever nativity was soled along what was there. ee Kitsumkalum Band Council the banks, but not in the stream. T _, Renee Mikaloff- This Fisheries Renewal BC funded project has r W Haisla Fisheries Commission, determined that coho spawners were found Rob Diermair - upstream of the possible barriors, but only after . 3 ' significant rainfa -84 mm). [tis suspec : a Northwest Stewardship Society that most of the adult coho were able to cross the afte ir ve h i Cc [ e@ Oo S Rob Heibein - possible barriers during the high water event, Also . Department of Fisheries and Oceans, noted was the decline of beaver presence on both : : . creeks. This could be duc to predators - black © a J Red Link - bears, wolves or wolverines, or the beavers could O r 8) a | rn to Tt h @ r i ve r Terrace Standard have left in search of more suitable forage. ; Simon Thompson - A TERRACE man is dead A diver from the Ter- imately 30 feet from the Northwest Community College, By documenting the possible barriers to coho migration, the Haisla Fisheries Commission is after his vehicle went off Highway 16 west of Kit- wanga and plunged into the icy Skeena River. The body of Lino Flor- ‘iano Osorio, 20, was reco- vered from the river on the ‘afternoon of. March 6, ' three days after his vehicle was found submerged in the water, — Just before 6 a.m..on March 3, a passing motor- ist from Terrace saw tire sace Water Search and Rescue Team located Osorio’s brown Ford Ran- ger shortly thereafter but found no sign of the Ter- race man. ; An ‘extensive search | using a police dog unit and helicopter was used to search for Osorio. The man’s body was retrieved from the water three days after the vehi- cle was spotied, approx- scene of the accident, said Cpl. Terry Johnson of the New Hazelton RCMP de- tachment. An RCMP traffic acci-_ dent specialist has deter- mined that the vehicle was travelling at least at the posted speed limit, said Johnson. Contributing factors in- clude icy road conditions and a curve at that point in the road, Steve Jennings - Steelhead Society of BC Trish Nuyten - Northwest Community College hopeful that funding will be available to monitor | these potential barriers on an annual basis. Should they impede coho migration in the future, the beaver dams may require breaching, or structures ’ such as ladders or planks may have to be used to facilitate coho migration past these barriers. tracks leading off the road . over the embankment, say RCMP, eC When looking over the ‘edge of the embankment that person Saw the. lights ..-. of a vehicle. shining; Upp: through the; ice.on the;riv twenty to thirty feet below ~ 4 the road, say police.” i Alaskan | | chip use ie opposed THE PROVINCE may ex- - plore whether it can re- strict shipments of Alaskan pulp:chips into B.C, to aid loggers here, says Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht. “Alaska is essentially dumping pulp chips in B.C. - because they don’t have - any pulp mills in Alaska,” he said. oe ““Giesbrecht said the - Cheap Alaskan chips are | - bought by Vancouver. Is- land: pulp mills, which might ‘instead buy chips — from. northwestern B.C. if there was a way-to restrict imports, _' He said he’s discussed ~ the-idea with forests mini-. » ster Gordon Wilson, but. -~ added‘ it needs more re- | > Starch, . | “1 “We kicked-around why’ ~ itwasi’t possible for mills «down: on the island to use : northwest pulp chips. | . instead,” -he said. ue “He said the issue may “well: become tied in with the dispute’ over Canadian “2 softwood lumber exports to othe U8... | ve ~ SIt’s one of these things. ‘Where you question whe- other: we have: free trade,” -Glesbrecht said. “B.C. 2 Cant freely. ship lumber: -. ‘nto the United States, yet , Alaska::can dump. chips into. B.C. “It begs some - questions as to what’s hap: ~ peiling.” _ | New markets for north- weit pulp would be valu- able to the region, because ‘of the high proportion of meneame . : _— . . ° pulp content in forests PARTS) Cnn center oae ge E ee ee _ here, he said. 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