| NORTHWEST FUELS Company works toward environmental triumph © ONE OF THE bright spots in northwest forestry is Triumph Timber Ltd. _ Once based in Terrace but now in Prince Ru- pert, the forest company has decided its future lies in’ partnership with aboriginal groups: and sensitivity to local and environmental concerns. “We're trying to respect and value the other uses on the land and take those into account in how we do business on the land base,” said Tri- umph vice-president Paul McWilliams. That strategy has started to pay dividends — both in strang working relationships and now ac- colades. The. federal fisheries department has given Triumph a special award — the first of its type on ‘the. west coast — in recognition of the company *s innovative. contribution to the conservation of fish habitat. One area where the company has put effort -and cash behind its words is the Paril River, south of Kitimat, where Triumph last year reacti- ‘vated an old log dump. -° Fallen timber.needed to be skidded down the “bank into. the salt water. That normally happens “gt high speed, and usually results in large amounts of bark being stripped off - a danger to nearshore fish habitat. Triumph worked closely with the Haisla to find a new solution, McWilliams said. The company’s contractors helped develop a long. system of skids with a floating tank on the end, “Ty significantly reduces the speed at which the bundles enter the water,” McWilliams said. The project cost Triumph nearly a quarter million ‘dollars, but the firm counts it as a suc- cess. Follow-up dives showed ‘minimal new bark on the ‘sea bed, he said. “The Haisla were very pleased with the results,” he added. ‘The low-speed log dump ramp is now in use -- -- at Fraser Reach on Princess Royal Island, where Triumph is engaged in an ecosystem based man- -, agement trial. - Federal fisheries offi cials also pointed to Tri- : umph’ s handling of log transfers in Tuck Inlet, at ’. the end of Prince Rupert harbour. The company was selectively heli-logging on ‘the inlet, where it took individual trees to avoid large sears on the hillside and to retain culturally - modified trees at the request of the Metlakatla band.. ™ “Flying over “afterwards, it’s pretty tough to tell. we’ ve been there,” McWilliams said. again to avoid damage to fish habitat. Timber was then barged to a log sort. r than drop’ the-logs-in. the.-water, - sheli- "seflewi-ther« ontoethet deck OF asbarge = The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 7, HELICOPTERS WERE used by Triumph Timber to transport selectively-cut logs to a barge in Tuck Inlet. That avoided large scars -:on hillsides that would have been the case had the logs been skidded down to water. Alm-Wood Contracting ¢ Clear Creek Contracting Ltd Western Brushing & Ditching Ltd CLEAR CREEK CONTRACTING LTD. " ‘Besides the fishery threat, the company wan- ted to avoid having logs in the water that could be a risk to the Lax Kw’alaams ferry thal goes through Tuck Inlet, The Lax Kw’alaams band, which is a contrac- - tor on the Triumph licence and carried out the logging in the inlet, played a key role. “They were very involved in the planning and the issues that were of concern,” McWilliams said. Both projects are examples of Triumph’s defi- nition of ecosystem-based logging — going the extra mile to Protect other resources and users’ interests. 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