© Terrace Review — Wednexiay, September 2, 1987

~ Seven Sisters could be tourist destination 7

by Steve Doyle
Terrace contributor

An eerie silence settled over us
as the Bell 206 Jet Rariger heli-
copter disappeared into the dis-
tance. Mike McDonald, a pho-
tographer from Vancouver and
myself had just been dropped
off at the 5,200 foot level in the
Seven Sisters mountains. The
silence was only temporary,
however, as our hearing return-
ed to normal after the roar of
the helicopter’s take-off ceased.
The sound of birds and running
water quickly made us realize
that summer had finally pene-
trated the harsh alpine environ-
ment at this elevation.

The purpose for our trip into
the Seven Sisters Mountains was
to video-tape the peaks, glaciers
aad alpine meadows that make
up this spectacular range. The
footage shot on this trip will be
used in a video that Mike Mc-
Donald is producing for the Sev-
en Sisters Society. The video,
which will be completed this fall,
showcases the scenic beauty of
the range and extolls the virtues
of the Seven Sisters Range as a
recreational paradise. Examples
of recreation in the Seven Sisters

are: hiking, cross-country ski- -

img, snow mobiling, and scenic
ing

As we hiked down through the

alpine meadows, we observed
many areas where the fragile
heather and other alpine vegeta-
tion had been torn up by all-
tesrain vehicles (presumably dirt
bikes). Vegetation in alpine mea-
dows is extremely slow-growing,
and it will be a long time before
the scars on these meadows are
‘healed. In some cases they may
never heal as the larger scars are
mow acting as stream beds for
water runoff, creating even
greater erosion.

The desecration of these
alpine meadows does not seem a
fitting legacy for such a spec-
tacular mountain range as the

Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters.
Credit unions — continued from page 4

wholly-owned subsidiaries of
groups like Merrill Lynch or
South African-based trust com-

panies.

This government bill will ac-
tually encourage credit unions to
bring about their own demise.

Quite frankly I think most
credit union members don’t real-
ly care about the earlier, foun-
ding philosophy of ‘the credit
union movement. I also suspect
that many have never heard of
it. For many years some credit
unions, some credit union
managers, and some boards of

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have the greatest relief (vertical
distance from base to summit)
of any mountains along High-
way 16 west of Mt. Robson,
which is at the Alberta border..
Anyone who has driven by the
Seven Sisters is aware of how
they stand out from the rest of
the mountains in our area. I
have personally seen large tour
buses pulled over on the shouwl-
der of the highway to allow the
passengers a glimpse of the
Seven Sisters.

It is clear that the Seven

Sisters range attracts alot of at- .

tention from passing tourists,
but with no facilities for them to
stop and stay overnight, tourists

travel on. The travel counsellor °

at the Terrace Chamber of Com-
merce Tourist Information facil-
ity says there has been a 50 per-

cent increase in the number of .

tourists. travelling through our
area this summer. With the im-
plementation of a new National
Park on South Moresby in the
Queen Charlotte Islands, more
and more tourists will be travel-
ling through Terrace with a Na-
tional Park as their destination.

The Terrace area needs to of-
fer these park-oriented tourists a
destination right here in. our

area: the Seven Sisters.. There ©

already is a park proposal in
place, 61,382 hectares in size,
which includes Mount Sir Rob-
ert (8,000 feet), Mount Quinlan
and many miles of rolling alpine
meadows. Creating a world-
class Provincial Park in

Terrace’s back yard would help

diversify our economy by taking
advantage of the increased tour-
ist traffic created by South
Moresby National Park.

As the degradation of the
alpine meadows on the Seven
Sisters continues and both the
forest and mining industry in-
crease their pressure to extract

‘resources from the Seven Sisters,

the viability for Park status di-
minishes. We must act now if we
wish to preserve this prime ‘area

directors have thought of

themselves as nothing more than

another financial house, .
In my view credit unions are
marked for death unless credit

union members fight back.

Credit union members are the
only ones who can preserve the

‘integrity and philosophy

necessary to serve people.

If credit union members don’t |

fight back various credit unions
will be interred in the same
burial plot as the Bank of B.C.
or the Bank of Western Canada.

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as a world-class Park. Terrace
residents should view for
themselves this beautiful moun-
tain range, and then decide if the
Seven Sisters are indeed special.
Northern Mountain Helicopters
offers helicopter service into the
area, and their knowledgeable

pilots can take you into the best
areas for viewing the glaciers. If
you can get a group together, the
rates are surprisingly low, —
There are of course several
hiking trails into the area, and it

was the Oliver Creek Trail that .

Mike McDonald and [hiked out
on after being dropped off by
Northern Mountain Helicopters,
This trail descends into forest

and lake country after leaving
the alpine, and eventually comes
out to Highway 16, just east of
Big Oliver Creek arid about 30
miles east of Terrace. ,

For more information on the
Seven Sisters contact Terrace
Chamber of Commerce Tourist

Information at 635-2063 or the

Seven Sisters Society at Box 73, °

Kitwanga, B.C. VOJ 2A0.

In search of a basis

Letter

To the editor,

I wondered if it was possible
that there were genes that con-
trolled greed, one of the main
sources of problems for humani-
ty and the environment.

In’ searching for natural
parallels in the animal kingdom,

I recalled that squirrels hoarded

nuts. and cones, pikas hoarded
grasses and sedges, beavers
hoarded willows and aspen
shoots, Gombi chimps hoarded

grapefruits and bananas, bears .

collected fat, and spiders and
many other insects collected
food for hard times,

It, thus appears that there is
‘much precedent in nature for the
act of collecting resources for
later use. The act of doing so
would also help the population

to survive through hard times, |

better than those that didn’t.
Thus, the genes that govern

-. this kind of behaviour would be

entrenched in the offspring of
the hoarders.

The
STORK

REPORT

Is the stork |
about to visit you?

Dissatisfaction until acquisi-
tions had reached a threshhold
level would be sufficient motiva-
tion for the expression of this
gene, and indeed, we find much
dissatisfaction within the human
populations, °

My subjective experience sug-
gests that this gene is alive and
well in humans,

How might political policies
increase the frequency of: this
gene and the trouble that it
generates as regards sharing,
Stealing, corruption, environ-
mental degradation ‘and so on?

By encouraging wealth and
economic growth: for its own
sake and by flaunting and
patronizing the greedy and by
letting crummy . programming
permeate the media, politicians
are able to reach those most easi-
ly dissatisfied amongst the
masses, thereby identifying them
for patronage.

If these dissatisfied folks are

_for greed in biology =

a faster rate than those who are
content.

Similarly, if a religious

subgroup that also endorses ©

growth and industry for its own
sake for the increase of material

Wealth and which subgroup -

doesn’t control its birth rate as

the others do, then adherents —

will also join the ranks of those
that increase this gene. .

I conclude that the greed gene
is thus open to artificial selection
‘and manipulation by polities
and social practices and further-
more, is the root cause of much
.of what is wrong with this
world. _

Scientists must begin to look
at the inheritance and expression .

of this gene because it may well
be evolving in a disastrous direc-
tion by default through our
neglect and ignorant direction of
its artificial evolution.

then given patronage conces-

sions, their financial situation
will favor larger family size and
their ‘population will increase at

Jorma Jyrkkanen
Terrace, B.C.

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in the Terrace Review. Forms are available at the hospital.

Pa

McCooey — Rolfe, Deb and Jessica joyfully announce

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the birth of Caitlin on August 6, 1987, weighing 7 Ibs. 15.

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