‘Tti is s the year 1988 and it
is a good time to ask about
the state of our forests now
and in the future.

If we can influence the out-
come of events at all, then the

earlier we have our input, the
better our futures will be.

If I circumnavigate the local
forests in my mind’s eye, I get a
satellite-type picture of all of it.

In that picture, I see the bulk

Commentary

by Jorma Jyrkkanen

of the merchantable Bell-Irving
forest vanishing, along with the
Nass forest, within two five-year
cut passes, though there will be
residues to pick away at for
another 10 years.

I foresee that the Kitimat
River drainage will be gone’ in
less than 20 years, as will the

other side-valley timber between
nerrace and the Douglas Chan-
ne.

The Lakelse Lake and River
block will be mostly logged by
the year 2000.

There will be little left be-
tween Terrace and Rupert
beyond the next 15 years.

The Private Counselling and Therapy
Lynn Hughes, psycholgist Andre Kil

y Centra came about as a Collaborative effort by (left to right) psychiatric nurse
ngner, and social ‘workers Carol Harvie and LII Farkvam. They offer a wide
range of services for people in need of help. ;

ill forest resource bankruptcy be
the reality of the next century?

- North of Terrace, only high
elevation or high percent pulp
will persist into the next century.

Between Terrace and Kispiox,
there is the timber west of the

-‘Skeena River, and this can hard-

ly sustain two five-year passes,

‘after which there will be little

merchantable left.

TFL#1 has wood in the very
back of many of her side valleys,
and it is generally of low grade,
high percentage pulp, and costly
to extract, It may persist as far
as the second decade of the next
century,

Then there is the Seven Sisters
area, which will come under in-
creasing pressure, even as the
natural beauty cries for preser-
vation. ©

There is also the Khutzeyma-
teen, which will probably be-
come a preserve and is so vital
for grizzlies. ;

Loggers can be expected to be

begging for these feature areas.
’ There are off-shore oppor-
tunities to be sure, but that
wood is costly, though new
technology using rock anchors is
making more of it accessible.

Nowhere do I foresee high
quality merchantable wood fiber
available much beyond the first
decade of the next century.

If pulp markets get stronger,
there will be some easing of the
shortfall,

. This wouldn't bother me in-

the least if there was new growth
coming on tap in the second
decade of the next century, but
no matter how I try, my mind
can’t conjure up such an image.
The oldest regenerated forest
around, after all this other good
wood is gone, still won’t be
ready for a good 30 years.
There is the possibility that
cottonwood can sustain some

Local professionals launch private
counselling and therapy service

The Private Counselling and
Therapy Centre is now open in
Terrace, as an alternate to ex-
isting agencies and also to fill a
gap in the services available to
_ Terrace and area residents.

‘by Betty Barton

The staff at the Centre hope
to provide services in the com-
munity that people might
previously have gone to Van-
_couver for. The four staff
members are professionals and
. Operate within the Codes of

_ Ethics dictated by their profes-
sional associations and ‘provin-
cial legislation. Confidentiality
is absolutely guaranteed.

Andre Klingner is a registered
psychologist and is licensed to
practice in B.C, He is listed with
the Canadian Register of Health
Service Providers in Psychology
and was formerly with the Ter-
race Mental Health Centre. An-
dre was Director of Mental
Health for a year and presently
teaches psychology at Northwest
Community College, in addition
to private counselling.

Lil Farkvam is a registered
Social Worker and a member of
the Canadian Association of
Social Workers. She formerly
worked with the Ministry of
Social Services and Housing. Lil
has done training for new social
workers with the Terrace and
District Community Services
program, and recently taught

communications skills to
childcare workers through
Special Services to Children.

Carol Harvie is also a
registered social worker and a
member of the Canadian
Association of Social Workers
with accreditation in Family

Therapy from the Western.

Family Learning Institute. She
currently works with Northwest

Drug and Alcohol Counselling, .

in addition to her work at the
Centre.

Lynn Hughes is a registered
psychiatric nurse licensed to
practice in B.C, She was former-
ly with the Terrace Mental.
Health Centre. She recently
taught a course for workers in
group homes on ‘‘effective be-
havior programming” through
Terrace and District Community
Services, and an assertiveness
workshop with the kids at
“‘New Horizon’,

Former colleagues at the dif-
ferent community agencies have
been most supportive in referr-
ing clients to the Centre, All the
professionals at the Centre have
been practicing in Tetrace for a
number of years and are well ac-
quainted with this community
and the rest of the region, other
professionals and agencies. They
all plan on continued long-term
commitment to Terrace.

The process of putting the
Centre together started in the
summer of 1987 in order that
these four professionals could

pool their resources, and share

their individual. skills and: in- .

terests in order to enhance ser-
vices available to the people. of
thie region. ‘‘We are here: to
assess and meet the needs of the
people and will continue to do so
as long as the need is there,”’
stated social worker Carol Har-
vie. ‘People hire us like they
would a lawyer. We offer a fee-
for-service. Some medical plans
cover our Victims Abuse Pro-
gram and psychological
services,’’ adds social worker Lil
Farkvam.

Carol Harvie has just com-
pleted a peer counselling
workshop with 15 students from
Skeena Junior Secondary
School. The workshop was
sponsored by Northwest Drug
and Alcohol Counselling and
took place in co-operation with
Mary Papias, a counsellor at
Skeena. The students applied to

be a part of the peer counselling —

program, or they were
nominated by teachers and
fellow students. At Skeena 54
students applied; 40 were inter-
viewed, and 15 chosen.

This is just one of many ser-
vices offered by the Centre.
They are willing to do
workshops for any agency or
association in the region. Hours
are flexible. They will work eve-
nings and weekends for both in-
dividual appointments and
group workshops. Workshops
can be offered on any number of

topics, including parent-teen

communication, sexual abuse,

interpersonal communication,
couples communications, asser-

tiveness training, stress and well |

continued on page 21

semblance of the logging in- :

frastructure over the fall-down
in softwood fiber supply, but for
this option to make a difference,
we had better invest more heavi-
ly into cottonwood right now.

I don’t see that happening. I
see instead a forest service thatis
bent on growing long-rotation
spruce on the best cottonwood
sites, I think because they have
been told they can do it by the
herbicide proponents, and
because cottonwoods. look like
‘weeds’.

We have probably the best
cottonwood growing sites in the

world, right here in the North- -

west, and these trees can kick
Out two or three crops for every
one of spruce.

With the greenhouse effect ex-
pected to heat up in the next cen-
tury, our northern spruce are go-
ing to increasingly find them-
selves in unfavorable environ-
ments, and [ think they are the
wrong tree to plant and focus on
in this area.

This Forest Service is also so
stuck on winning the herbicide

battle that they are forgetting |

the ‘sustained’ aspect of the
wood supply commitment that
puts the public good foremost.

In short, management of our
forests has leaned towards fos-
tering a boom-and-bust cycle, by
taking the best and to hell with
the rest.

It’s your kids and mine that
are going to have to dilly dally
during the fall-down effect. .
. What can we do about it?
Very little in my opinion unless

we change this government.

All I can say is to repeat what
I said once before, that. we had

better use this slug of capital to -

diversify and educate ourselves
sO we can lean on other options

' for employment into the next

century.
Perhaps we could soften the
effect of the supply fall-down by

slowing down on the good wood —

and banking it for later, and by
investing more heavily in the
cottonwood option.

Since I did all of this theoriz-

ing in. my mind’s eye, would
someone out there correct me in
clear simple English if they have

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