Locals
at L.A.
riots

TERRACE -- Rioting in
Los Angeles almost spoiled
Lisa Carpino’s wish to go to
Disneyland.

The 10-year-old Terrace
girl was going there to take a
week off from her battle with

- cancer, after local people
- raised money to help her go
there,

The Carpinos arrived safely
at the airport in Los Angeles
last Thursday; but all flights
were then promptly cancelled
-- including a commuter
flight they wanted to take to
nearby Orange County.

Maria Carpino, —_Lisa’s
mother, said they ended up
Staying al a Los Angeles
hotel about three blocks from
an area of serious footing and
rioting.

"It’s terrible out there," she
said, "But what are you
going to do? You have to
make the best of it."

Lisa and family got to Dis-
neyland Sunday and have
been doing fine since. .

"She went on all the rides,"
Carpino added. "She’s hav-
ing a lot of fun."

Terrace fire chief Bob Bec-
kett- also got a litile more
than he bargained for when
he went to Los Angeles last
week to. train with
firefighters there,

According to Los Angeles
Fire Department officials, all
ride-along programs -- in-

_ cluding the one Beckclt was
supposed to be on -- were

cancelled = when the
widespread burning and riot-
ing began in the city.

He was to arrive al Fire
Station #11 last Thursday
- moming to. work alongside
- firefighters there.

"We know that Fire Station

#11 is still standing," Capt.
Joe Ramirez of the L.A. Fire
Department said last Friday.

"But that’s about all we
know about it. There’s not
‘much standing around it."

Beckett should be back in.
Terrace this weck, - ;

ate .

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Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 6, 1992 — Page A3

TERRACE —' Wood rustlers
are causing trouble for small
business loggers like Gilles
Bruneau.

He’s recently been stung for
several hundred dollars worth
of timber stolen from his licence
area north of Lakelse Lake.

The area south of town —
known as the Thunderbird — is
one of the main targets for
rustlers because it's so close to
town,

‘‘There’s a lot of nice cedar
out there and I guess some of
that stuff is easy picking,’’
Bruneau says.

Many wood thieves g0 out to
get firewood and don't realize
what they're doing is illegal. But
forest ministry technician
Richard Krupop ‘says the bulk
of the damage is being done by
professionals with Alaska mills
— chainsaws outfitied with
guides to cut logs down to cants
on the spot. ,

There’s a lot of money in-
volved, he said.

Krupop says most of the
stolen wood ends up as fence
posts or part of someone’s deck
here in town.

“They’ve gat to have more
guts than I have to do
something like this,”’ he says as
he examines recent cutting
debris in Bruneau's 3,000 cubic
metre timber licence. “They're
taking his prime saw logs. It’s
money out of his pocket,’

Just like branded cattle, logs
being taken out of the bush
must have a special mark on it,
If not, the person taking it is
probably a rustler.

“It is illegal to cut any wood
without a permit,’’ Krupop
says.

Krupop said the forests
ministry gives out free permits
for firewood cutting, along with

maps and directions for how to

Wood rustlers prowl area

get to places where firewood

can be taken legally. He also”

notes that firewood cutters
should take wood from slash
piles — not decked wood,

There are also cash sale areas
where people who-want to cut:
their own wood can do so
legitimately,

A few. logs here and there:
may not seem like much. But it
adds up to a lot of money for.
small operators like Bruneau. -

“It makes the logger look:
bad,” he says, explaining that’
the’ ‘rustlers tend to leave their.
debris all over the road access;
“It looks like I’m not doing my’
job right.”

Krupop says there are also.

other more serious conse-
quences ta wood theft.

“They're taking his:
prime saw fogs, It’s:
money out of Ais.
pocket,”

It creates an uncontrolled and
unmonitored forest fire hazard.
The ministry loses stumpage
fees on the stolen wood.

He said the ministry has pro-
secuted two people recently for
firewood theft, adding foresiry
workers. are always on the
lookout for violators.

“It’s just like poaching and
we're going to treat it just like
poaching,’’ Krupop explained.
“‘They’re either ignorant of the
Forest Act, or just don’t care.”

He called on anyone seeing an
obvious or suspected violation
to observe, record, and repart it
immediately to the district

forests ministry. office al.

638-3290.

SURVEYING THE DAMAGE: forests ministry small business -
program technician Richard Krupop inspects debris left

behind by wood rustlers in the Thunderbird. Wood thieves are
causing mayhem in such easily accessed areas, costing both

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