This group of Grade 8 students from Thornhill Junior Secondary Schoo!
recently toured the tree nursery at Pacific Regeneration Technologies,

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 7, 1990

hosted by manager Tom Harvey. The class has taken on a long-term pro-
ject to learn first hand about forestry In the Northwest.

_ Nursery visit a
— growth experience for”

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! Contributed by D. Anaka

This is the second in a series of
reports on the activities of a.
i class of Grade 8 students at
~ Thornhill Junior Secondary
School. They are studying
silviculture within their science
course this year. —

These students recently visited
the Thornhill! Nursery. They
would like to thank Mr. Tom
Harvey, the manager of Pacific
Regeneration Technologies, for
providing them with a very in-
formative tour of the nursery.

Thornhill Tree Nursery
by Aaron Petovello, Grade &
Thornhill Junior Secondary

The nursery is a. private com-
pany, working under contract
. for the government or logging
companies.
The seedlings are grown in
styrofoam blocks with small
holes where the seed is placed. A
machine mixes peat moss, ver-
miculite and fertilizer which is
deposited inside the blocks. The
fertilizer itself is made in vats, ,
then mixed with the seedlings’
water. After the seed is planted
in this mixture, it is covered with
‘a thin layer of grit, then placed
in a greenhouse.
" "Inside the greenhouse almost
i everything is controlled by com-
puter in. order to create me
perfect ' environment for the
«tree. They do this by using ex-
. -haust fans and heaters, placed at

elther: end. of. the. greenhouse. .

--There are 15-greenhouses in total:

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oresters

on the nursery.

The trees grow well in the
greenhouses today compared to
the 1970’s, when considerable
smaller one-year-old trees were
sold, The pits inside the blocks
vay in size, making different size
trees. The ones growing in larger

holes grow faster than the ones

with smaller holes.

Another way of growing trees
is just leaving them outside. The
blocks of trees are covered with

black plastic to protect them in“

winter. This process is used for
slower-growing trees that would
grow at the same rate inside.
Seedlings are sorted and grad-
ed; seedlings not making the
minimum sizes are disposed of.
The roots are wrapped in
cellophane. They are tested for.
their resistance to cold by being
put for one hour inside a freezer

‘Black hole’

A request for a street light in
front of the Callanan property
in the 4400 block of North
Thomas has fallen on sym-
pathetic ears, but the street will
remain shrouded in darkness.

“Living at the dead end of -

‘Thomas is like living in a ‘black-
hole’,’’ Eileen Callanan told
Terrace city council in a letter
last month. “It’s an invite to
middle-of-the-night ‘cruisers’
and ‘parkers’ and on several oc-
casions we have been awakened

at —18°C. After this, they are

placed in a growth chamber. If:

80 percent of its foliage is un-
damaged, the tree is stored. at
-1°C in cold storage until
spring,

Cald storage is like a large re-
frigerator. The purpose of stor-
‘ing it is to try to make it use very
little of its food reserves. The
Thornhill Nursery can store
three million trees. A box is used
to test the temperature and
humidity of the room. Readings
are taken every 15 minutes.
These devices aren’t used much
anymore because a computer
can do it.

White boxes are used to store -

the trees, This is because when
they are stored outside at the
planting site, the seedlings stay
5° cooler. It was an interesting
tour.

stays dark
by cars stuck in the ditch.”

After considering her request,
however, the Public Works
Committee explained to council
that a priority list exists for the
installation of streetlights and

‘there are. other. areas in more

urgent need, Some interim alter-

natives suggested by the commit. _

tee are for Callanan-to install a
yard light and for the city to in-
stall a. ‘No Thru Road”’ sign to
prevent unnecessary traffic.

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