er ee Sa cee seme eed a a ae” TP Page A12 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 20, 1991 TERRACE — People will be laid off and the local economy hurt if all proposed parks and wilderness areas within areas Skeena Sawmills now logs come into effect, warns its silviculturist. ’ _'Damien Keating made the comment during a Feb. 13 meeting held to discuss plans by the forest and parks ministries to increase the amount of parks and wilderness land in the pro- vince. Keating said the areas ear- marked for study — including — the the Kitlope. watershed — ~ totalled 14,700ha and an estimated 7.4 million cu.m. of harvestable timber. Calculated on an 80-year rotation. — the time it would take to grow a second crop — the proposals would reduce Skeena Sawmills’ annual allowable cut (AAC) by 92,000 cu.m, or “approximately 2,400 truckloads of wood yearly,” he said. That’s equivalent to 16 per cent of the company's AAC on the two licences involved, And it would mean 30 lost forestry and silviculture jobs and 36 mere in the company’s Terrace mill, Keating said. As well, $19 million would disappear from the economy with this area affected the most, he continued.’ While: conceding some jobs couid result from creating these reserves, Keating said it was dif- fieult to calculate exactly how many. . . He also pointed out that jobs Lack of Hetail - slammed TERRACE — B.C, Parks and the Forest Service are not giving the public enough information about proposals for wilderness and park study areas, says IWA local 171. While government was trying to create the impression it ‘‘real- ly wanted to hear from the peo- ple,’” spokesman Jack Harm- ston said a lack of details made @ proper response impossible, “We do not know where the boundaries of these (study) areas are and therefore we can- not predict the social and economic impacts,’” Harmston emphasized. Pointing out Forests and Parks were in the same situa- tion, he. wondered how they would be able to decide on the boudaries without that kind of information, ‘This is not an ac- ceptable situation,” he charged. Harmston said removal of more forest lands would only accelerate the predicted ‘fall down’”’ effect, adding “To ig- nore the needs of working peo- ple is unjust.’’ | ! 7 : Slides & pools avery Wednesday, except Statuatory Holidays bring a friend f 2 for 1, MOUNT LAYTON HOT SPRINGS RESORT LTD. and revenue generated by some parks had. fallen far short of original projections, Apart from the specific areas earmarked to be set aside, the location of others would create further problems for his com- pany. Noting the proposed marine parks in particular were . located at the mouths of drainage systems or in sheltered bays and inlets, he said ‘‘These are the same areas that provide access, dumping and storage of off-shore .wood within our licence area.” The combined effect’ would _ be to make the economic viabili- ty of continued off-shore logg- ing questionable, he warned, Kealing also pointed out many of the proposed study The combined effect Would be to make the economic viability of . continued off-shore fog- ging questionable — Keating, areas and their surrounds had already seen logging in the past and now “support stands of healthy second growth forest,’? That was evidence logging did not have a long term, ‘adverse effect and multiple use was possible. That view was echoed by Skeena Sawmills manager Don Chesley. Conceding clear cuts looked “rough’’ immediately ' after harvesting, “‘it's quite dif- ferent on a 20-25 year old one.”’ Baby’s Name: Erika Suzanne Date & Time of Girth; February 1, 1991 at 12:58 Walght: 7 (bs. 1402. Sex: Female | Parents: Dan & Chris Tuomi 2 Industry spells out cost’ | of widespread conservation) He said his company was ready to prove that by taking people out to look at old clearcut areas, Chesley also challenged anyone to show him an area where the forest industry had Permanently taken away recrea- tional opportunities. Maintain- ing the opposite was the case, he said many of the affordable recreation areas that could be reached by the ‘‘vast majority”’ of people had in fact been open- ed up by forestry operations. — kit20b 6° ' : ‘Noting the Council of Forest Industries had indicated it was Prepared to co-operate in the creation of parks and wilderness areas, he asked that the respec- tive government agencies co- operate with the forest industr in return. ‘ 7 Offering a compromise solu- tion, Keating said Skeena Sawmills proposed limiting the proposed protected areas to the « Kitlope Lake, Foch Lagoon- Gilttoyees Inlet and Brim drainages, This would remove . Hl oper cent of the present operable forest meeting the majority of parks and wilderness objectives.” The company also recom- mended a cost-benefit analysis be carried out before any.areas were set aside, a review of pro- posed parks-wilderness boun- daries with forest licences, giv- ing ‘the greatest consideration” -to local con- cerns and user groups and money generated by any new -- parks be allocated to intensive eoe~