- fa - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 27, 1994

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- All for one

FOREST ALLIANCE of B.C. president Jack
Munro got one thing dead right at the recent
meeting sponsored by the chamber of commerce
on how the local economy could be affected if
logging is cut back.

When told natives turned down an invitation to
become members of the Kalum South Com-
munity Resources Board, he looked puzzled and
asked ‘““Why not?’’ The board, now three years
old, is made up of various interests trying to fig-

ure out what land should be logged and what _

land should be used for other purposes.

While Mr. Munro’s question inadvertently
added to the anti-native sentiment that surfaces
whenever resource use is brought up, it exposed
one weakness in the board’s deliberations. This
area won’t be able to reach any kind of land use
deal without native involvement.

There’s one other weakness of the community
resources board. Its mandate only covers 25 per
cent of the area and doesn’t touch on the 75 per
cent already allocated to the big forest com-
panies.

The two factors in a sense back up the reason-
ing behind the Commission on the Resources
and the Environment (CORE), the body which
Mr. Munro and others don’t like. CORE’s phi-
losophy is that land use decisions can only be
made when all the interests are involved and all
the resources are on the table.

That, quite simply, is the all-important point
which must serve as the basis for any move to
reach regional consensus. Whether CORE is to
be the body which brings all the players together
is really immaterial. Without full representation
and full:willingness to compromise, chances are
that nothing significant will be accomplished.

Bad trip

WAY BACK in the old days, when politics
meant something, those who laid the base for the
New Democratic Party lived by this statement:
“From those according to their ability to those
according to their need.”’

But times sure have changed. Witness the
recent mailing sent out by the provincial NDP
asking its members for money. The hook is that
those who contribute (and even those who do
not) qualify for a prize of a trip around the world
worth $3,500. .

Land sakes alive. Has it come to this when
members of a political party can’t be expected to
contribute to a cause on its merits alone? This
kind of thing might be expected of the Liberals,
Tories or even of those ultimate party animals —
Reformers —- but never by the NDP.

This prize gimmick is simply too crass, too
commercial for the party that introduced con-
cepts such as universal medicare. Besides, the
trip will take money out of the provincial econo-
my by having it spent someplace else. A party
that loses its roots can’t expect there to be much
fruit come harvest time.

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VICTORIA -—- The NDP
government’s Forest Renewal
Plan, revealed two weeks ago
by Premier Harcourl, is a
Major coup by any measure,
Not only will the plan funnel
an average of $400 million a
year into British Columbia’s
forests, creating at least 5,000
ane jobs, but through some
crafty accounting moves, the
province is getting even with
Oitawa by off-loading a sub-

‘stantial part of the project's

cost on the federal govern-
ment.

’ The entire program will be
financed by the forest industry,
but brace yourself, they’re not
only holding still for the blood-

- letting, they’ve been in on

working out the details and
‘are, in fact, endorsing the in-
itiative. . Lo. .

Other partners in the pro-
gram are the unions, environ-
mentalists, First Nations and
forest-dependent communities.

You may well ask why the
industry is a willing player ina
game in which it is the pre-
determined loser? Why would
the industry embrace and sup-
port a government plan that
will cost it an additional $330
million a year after federal tax
write-offs?

The answer is that the indus-
iry sees the writing on the wall.
Unless it participales in some
innovative measures thal will

One way to s

TERRACE TRUMPETER
Nathalie Dickson has been
chosen to perform with a na-
tionai band called Canadian
Youth on Tour. For 23 days
beginning mid-July, the 14-
year-old will have a chance to
perform and travel throughout
Europe.

Thirly years ago young folk
with a yen to sce the world
hitchhiked wherever a crooked
thumb would lake them. Their
aim? To enjoy life, view the
passing scene, and artive
somewhere someiime.

Today ambitious young folk
travel widely thanks to years of
dedicated training that makes
them expert in a specialty.

‘An expert’’, said Nicholas
Murray Butler in a Columbia
University commencement ad-

_ dress, ‘is someone who knows

more and more about less and
less.’ Bul we. enjoy observing
an expert, even Laurel and
Hardy who were expert in in-
expcriness.

In order to travel on its

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increase the value of the land

base in the long run, the annual
allowable cut will not only be
reduced but will probably
never again increase,

And that’s where the Forest
Renewal Plan comes in, in
spite of what Reform MLA
Jack Weisgerber has to say
about it, But more on Jack
later:

The $400 million fund, creat-
ed by an increase in stumpage
rates of a whopping 80 per
cent, will be spent entirely on
increasing the value of the
working forests. That includes
rehabilitation of streams, rivers
and watersheds and returning

unused forestry roads to pro- -

ductive growth.

Other projects will include
going back into the forests, at
regular intervals, afier plant-

THROUGH BIFOCALS,

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

mmerils, their specialty must
wow spectalors. Playing a mu-
Sical instrument superbly, as
Nathalic docs. Baton twirling
flawlessly. Even Karate moves
by Kitimat’s Ling sisters,

In the © fifties, Pitman
Shorthand Publishers of
London hired a wilty whiz
from Wales to visit the world’s
major business colleges and
dazzle students with her
shorthand proficiency.

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ing, and increasing future yield
by such measures as thinning,
spacing pruning and fertiliza-
tion. Other investments from
the fund will include restock-
ing and protecting fisheries,
wildlife and other resources
that were depleted in the past.

The program will bs admin-
istered by a new corporation to
be called Forest Renewal B.C.,
a parinership of government,
industry, workers, First Na-
tions, communities and en-
vironmentalists. The corpora-
tion will be responsible for set-
ting standards that will be
guided by a new Forest Prac-
tices Act, and establishing
priotitics.

The actual projects carried
out under the plan will be the
Tesponsibility of the com-

panies. They will hire the.

workers for the jobs.

Government officials were
reluctant to put a dollar figure
on the likely wages the new
jobs will pay because they7ll
be subject to contract negotia-
tions. Harcourt said, however,
that the jobs will be high-
paying ones, which may be a
safe assumption, considering
the unions have also endorsed
the plan.

Now a word about my friend
Jack Weisgerber, whose politi-
cal skills I greatly admire. Jack
doesn’t seem to be very im-
pressed by the Forest Renewal

Not long ago CBC’s
Morningside interviewed a
cake-decorating artist who flits
from continent to continent
showing off her flower
flourishes competing in inler-
national contesls.

What motivates individuals
who drill relentlessly until they
become tops in their specialty
while others can’t hoist them-
selves away from the TV?
What inspires singular dedica-
lion in an Elvis Stojko, pianist
John Kimura Parker, or B.C.’s
world champion bagpiper?

Is it genes? Level of self
esteem? Exposure to inspiring
role models at a tender age?

For sure, dedication is
fostered by Mom and Dad’s in-
sistence that training not be put
off by anything less frivolous
than compound fractures of a
vital limb, tornadoes, or death
of the trainer.”

By the time these prodigies
are 20, many of them have
practised almost an equal num-
ber of years. But only internal

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Hats off to forest renewal

Plan. ‘‘No new ideas for job
creation,’’ he said. ‘It’s almed
at saving the Harcourt govern- :
ment’s own political hide,”’

Well Jack, what’s wrong
with a government trying to
save its hide? You've been
there. As for no new job crea- ©
tion ideas, you're way off base.
And it was about time some-
one forced the forest industry
to plan further ahead than to
the next shareholders’ meeting.

T’ve been in the bush and
I've flown over miles. of vir-
tually useless forest that had
been replanted 80 years ago,
but was never subjected to any
silviculture
companies didn’t have to, so
they didn’t.

The result is trees so close
together they choked ‘cach
other. Barely thicker than a’

foot, it wouldn’t even be-eco- '

nomically feasible to use them
for chips. Had the companies
of the day done two or three -
passes through the stands, thin-
ning, spacing, and generally

locking after the resource, « —

those trees would now be six
feet in diameter, not one foot. ~
And something tells me, —
Jack, that a program willingly
embraced — by industry,
workers, government and en- ”
vironmentalists can’t be all --
bad.

discipline forces a trainee to
make the best use of rehearsal
lime. Going through the mo-
tions would be less draining
than mentally striving to per-
fect a sequence of intricate
moves, like Elizabeth Manley
painstakingly tracing com- —
pulsory figures on the ice in
slow motion. ;
Working to become an ex-
pert leaves litile opportunity
for picnics, movies or sleep.
Rising at 5 am. to squeeze in
several hours of precious prac-
tice before a normal day begins
is routine for expert specialists...
Nonetheless, lackadaisical.”
detractors try to pass off
others’ success as ‘just luck’,
Just luck? I doubt travelling
was part Nathalie’s goal when -
she took up the trumpet, How-
ever, now that she has become
expert in tootling her horn, op-
portunity has knocked on her
door, plane ticket in hand. |
Nathalie was packed and
ready.
Have skill, will travel.

BUT MY BRAINT -
NEVER LEFT J.

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