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BHI Gourlie is lean and hard —
"and wiry, The wind-conditioned -

skin on his face js leathery and
taut”
“Hours. and hours spent wat--

ching from rocky promontories,

staring into treed valleys, peer-

- ing across flat‘ plains into hazy

distances, glassing greening -
slides, and squinting down ‘the
barrel of a rifle have formed the
strong lines radiating from the’
corners of his eyes, When you
talk to Bill, he seems ever on the
‘alert — you get the impression

- that any moment he will spot

something over your shoulder
and begin stalking it.

His many-trophies prove he is
a master of all facets of his
sport, but because of shrinking
habitat, animal rights groups.
and Walt Disney, he is an en-
dangered species. Bill Gourlie is
a trophy hunter.

ido not share Bill’s passion

.them were |

for the hunt because I have

never hunted game and was not
brought up with it, but, since I
hunt fish, ] can understand it.

Bill and I doshare alove forthe ."

natural environment, however,
Bill is also a pilot. A couple
of years ago he told me of flying

cover the head end of a local
" watershed when the creeks there

were full of ripening salmon.
Great grizzled bears, pushed by

the instincts of their ancestors, -
had lumbered down the valleys.

Bill watched as they pulled
salmon from the streambed
with their great, muscular jaws.

“You should’ve seen them!"*

~ exclaimed Bill, emphasizing his

words with claw-like gestures of
his shopworn hands. ‘I’ve
never seen so many brown bears
in one spot before. Some of
the size. of
buffaloes!”

None of those bears were

availatle to hunters, they were

protected by regulation and,
_more importantly, by miles of

timber. Bill wasn't able to put
any of those bears in his sights,
but that didn’t bother -him: to
know that they were there, to be

, priviledged to see them from the

air, was enough.

Recently Bill. told me of a
return flight to the valley of the
grizzlies. He was as animated as
the first time he told it, but this
time he was angry.

“] saw some sows and a few

two-year-olds,”’ he said, ‘‘but

not one big boar.”

‘‘What happened to them?”' I
knew what he would say, but I
asked anyway,

“'Poached,’' he answered,

And it seems very likely they
were, for there has been an im-
portant change in the valley
since the first time Bill cruised
over it — there is a road up it.

The road was built to provide

“access for the loggers. And log

it they did — badly. Even the
trees in the boy scout camp were
cut down, There were violations
of the fisheries act and the com-
pany was charged.

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 7, 1990 —-Page 85

‘0 know they are there _

It wasn’t the violations and
the rough-and-tumble logging,
that hurt the bears, however, it
was the improved access. Grizz-
ly hides can fetch as much as

five thousand dollars, and that ©

economic incentive and the

Sorry state of restrained conser- —

vation service conspired to put
the great bears in danger. .
The scenario in this valley

_ reminded me of the Khutzeyma-,_

teen, another ever more remote
vailey upon which the timber
companies have designs. The
loggers might nat do such a ter-
rible disservice to the hillsides of
the Khuzeymateen as was done
to the slopes of the upper
Kitimat, but they will most cer-
tainly adversely impact its
bears.

I attended the hearings of the
B.C, Government's Wilderness
Committee some years back and
witnessed a debate between a

rent-a-biologist, arguing. on:

behalf of the lumber company oe
that the Khutzeymateen could’ -
stand logging, and ‘biologists
from. the Ministry of thé"En-; —
vironment, who, said it could”

not. =~

If the apologist for the timber’ a
company — who, incidentally, ' :

was brought in from Alberta —

had spent any time on the logs: 7
ed coastal valleys of our pro“.

vince, he would have observed.
that roads give access to those

who are sensitive to natural sure“

roundings and. to those“ who
wish to crush and. consume.
them. .. ay

It is the same everywhere:
Whether it: climbs’. up : ‘the

: Kitimat Valley or extends ‘into

the forests of the Amazon, 4.
road alters wilderness: ir--
revocably and, invariably, | for
the worse, because it Rives us ac
cess. ;

‘JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

_SPORTS NEWS _

TERRACE STANDARD

-SPORTSCOPE-

Kitimat
dominates

TERRACE — Kitimat teams
came out on top in regional
girls’ junior high school
basketball action Jan, 20-21.
Kitimat’s Grade 8 girls
placed first ahead of Prince
Rupert and Skeena’s ‘A’
team to win the girls side of
the Kitimat tournament.
Meanwhile Kitimat's
junior girls beat two Skeena
teams — this time on their
home turf — to relegate them
to second and third.

Boys’ action in Kitimat
saw Prince Rupert’s Grade 8s
beat Kitimat and Skeena.

Bowlers
break goal

Local bowlers shattered
their goal and last year’s tally
in raising more than $6,000
this year for the Variety
Club’s fund to help crippled
children.

‘Last year bowlers at the
local lanes raised just over
$5,000 and this year’s goal
was around the same mark.

But organizers say the
final pledge tally ended up
nearly $1,400 higher — at
$6386.12. One resident —
Ude Langheinrich —: led the

personally bringing in
$1,325.

‘The campaign was part of
the annual B.C. Bowls For
Kids drive to provide money
‘1 to help disabled children.

This year’s total brings
Terrace’s four-year pledge
total to nearly $20,000.

Ski race
nears

Mountain officials are get-
ting ready to be besieged by
¥ ski-.racers descending on
Hudson Bay Mountain for
‘the northern iristaliment -of

: Smithers will host the

Series that weekend, It’s the
third year the event has been
held i in Smithers,

“The race will consist of a
‘sanctioned . slalom and a
giant slalom and is open to
“tacers aged 19 and up. Win-
‘ners in each age cateogory
‘gutomatically qualify for the,
‘Natlonal Championships at
“Whistler April 5-7.

ae ‘fhe races are to take place
‘on the run. Turkey Shoot.

hallenge and is open to
‘adult skiers of all levels of exe
rience and skill. ;

‘Organizers say the event is |
esigned to be a personal]

“albright, Kirsten , Holke
wee ond Stephane Kuhar.

TIME
OUT!

HALF-TIME Friday night sees
Caledonia coach Cam MacKay
(right) rally the troops with an
emergency strategy on making
up a-17-point deficit. Above, a
North Delta player darts
through the Kermode defence,
showing why his team is

number one in the province.

Ready for
Games

TERRACE — A group of Ter-
race athletes are gearing up to
compete in events ranging from
karate to curling at. the Feb.
14-17 B.C. Winter Games in
Penticton,

The Terrace competitors are:

* Bowling: Dallas Prevost,
Lisa Haugland, Linda Larson,

Lorna Burkett, and Debbie
Lebeau. -
° @ Curling: Cindy Oakes, |

Trisha Walker, Lana Garner ~

and Wendy Prinz.

e Badminton: Nancy Con-
don, Dee Jenion, Karen Older-
shaw, Chris Tuomi, Dan
Tuomi, Norm Parry,
Kinney and Mark Sauer.

« Boxing: Darren Bell, Joey ~

Losier, |,
.@ Karate:
Rosy Sanghera, Kip Parsons,
Lung Liu,* Joe Zucchiatti Jr.,

Deb Casey, Robiti McNell, and

Darcey McKeown.
_ . © Ringette: : Joelle Scriver,
“Kara ‘Myers, Jacque Scriver,

. Lisa Smith, and Susan Munson, .

_@ Swimming: . Shelley

Morgan, Marion Duffus, Mary
-Bowerlng, Tom Ainscow, Dean

McClay, and Joe Nandur.

. * Bigure’ skating:. Shelley.
* Lefebvre, Jessica Lambright,.

© Gymnastics: ; Heathe

Karry.

Jeremy Harris, ‘|

Pride in seteat

TERRACE — They weren't vic-
tories, but the Kermode boys’
twin losses to the North Delta
Huskies over the weekend were
about as close as Caledonia
could have come.

The North Delta team — now
ranked number one in the pro-
vince ~~ had ta work hard to
beat the Kermodes by the same
14-point margin both Friday
and Saturday.

‘““There’s no shame in losing
by 14 points to a team like

this,’’ Caledonia principal Tom
Hamakawa remarked after
Saturday night’s game. “They
are the best team in the pro-
vince, so I think we did great.’

Friday’s game saw the
Huskies put Caledonia behind
by 17 points at half time. But
the tenacious Kermodes fought
back to win the second half by
three points and narrow the
final score to 90-76.

The Huskies’ Mitch Berger
picked up player-of-the-game

honours, while Jackie Brown
earned the award for
Caledonia. Brown led Kermode
scoring with 19 points, followed
by Paul Manhas’ 18-pointcon-
tribution,

On Saturday, North Delta
quickly secured the lead and
hung onto it for the game, win-
ning 80-66. Caledonia’s Mike
Parker won the Kermodes’
MVP award.

Hamakawa said Caledonia
was behind the eight-ball early,
because the team was nervous
and intimidated by North Delta.

‘‘We knew that in order to
win it, it would have to be
close,”’ said Kermode coach
Cam MacKay. ‘‘They’re a very
good team — very refined —

but we had a very good bench of _

Grade 11s out there,”

The Kermodes next games are
this weekend, as Caledonia
leaves tomorrow for a tourna-
ment at the Mennonite Educa-
tional Institute in Clearbrook.
Their last major tournament
was at Brittannia, in Van-
couver, where they placed
fourth overall,

An earlier game at Caledonia
on Saturday saw Skeena Jr,
Secondary’s junior boys down
Prince Rupert's Booth squad in
a 53-50 cliffhanger. Terrace’s
Mike Newhouse led the Skeena
scoring drive in that game with
19 points.

and Doug McKay.:

Smith rink of Terrace.

. and Rich Green.

Burke rink
tops spiel

TERRACE — Larry Burke skipped his Terrace
RCMP rink to victory at the local 37th annual
Terrace Legion Bonspiel two weekends ago.
Burke’s was one of 48 rinks entered in the
three-event curling contest. Burke and team-
mates Kevin Podbisky, Dean Cross and Don
‘Oldham captured first place in the ‘A’ event to
win the Ken Austin Memorial Trophy. They
went on to curl at provincial championships last
week in Hope and this week.in Williams Lake.
Runners-up to Burke on the ‘A’ side were the
Ken Hendry rink of Ken and Ans Hendry,
_ Steve May and Marshall Perrin, Third and
fourth place went to Terrace rinks Russ Kirk

On the ‘B’ side, skip George Kozak and 7am
Wayne Vilac, Ken Dagg and Brian Moen came

- gut ahead of the local Jeff Davidson rink.
_. Davidson’s crew of Jim Shirey,

Popovitch and Keith Norman had to settle for

taking second, ahead of Prince Rupert's Eric

Johanson, in ‘third and the fourth-place Dan

‘C’ Bvent action saw Terrace rinks take the
top spots again, with the Fred Martens rink
triumphing ‘over John Heighington. Martens F&
was backed up by Marlin and Randy Kluss, and &
Mary Ann Majtens. Heighington made the calls

- for teammates Mitch Stolarchuk, Jim Young

-.., . Third in ‘C' event was Terrace’s Don Ander-
‘son and. at Lindstrom was fourth,

Ken

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opponent's overshot rock out ot the scoring rings.

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