Lake access denial feared DID YOU KNOW:

DEVELOPMENT along
the-east side of Kalum
Lake is threatening to
block .public access to the
lake, says a local woman.

Susan Mehs is one of
the organizers of a meet-
ing next week aimed at
setting up a public access
_boat launch on the paved
side of the lake,

--She says the sale of
Crown land lots there has
resulted in some areas
where the lake used to be
accessible being blocked
‘off by the new owners,

“They've started selling
all the property along the
side of the lake” Mehs
said.. “Unofficial access
that people used to have to
the lake has been cut off.”

“If somethhing is not
done very soon there may
be no access to the lake
from Kalum Lake Drive,”
she said,

Highways ministry and
regional district officials
will be part of the meeting
at 7:30 p.m, Wednesday,
Feb. 16 at the regional dis-
trict offices.

Mehs said the effort
may involve recruiting yo-
lunteers to help clear and
improve a very rough ex-
isting approach to the lake
on a highways ministry
right-of-way: near the Ross-
wood end.

Regional district plan-
ner Ted Pellegrino said his
office fielded some com--
plaint calls: last summer
after one popular access

. point was cut off when a
new owner erected No
Trespassing signs.

“We got a few phone
calls over that,” he said.

Mehs said a. good pub-
lic boat launch at Kalum
Lake could help ease pres-

sure on other boat access
points ta the Skeena River.

Although there’s provin-
cial law guarantees public

Wood
companies
lagging

B.C.’s FOREST industry is 6

far behind its counterparts
elsewhere in the country in
every major measure of
performance, says a new
Study financed by the in-
dustry.

The study by PriceWa-
terhouseCoopers for the
Council of Forest | Indu-
' stries paints a picture of an
industry that would have
$4.1 billion more in its
pockets today if its profit-
ability had kept pace with
the forest sector in the rest
of Canada.

lt pins the blame for un-
-derperformance through
most of the 1990s on in-
creased fibre costs in B.C.
‘versus the rest of the coun-

. Pulp fibre costs rose 30
per cent in B.C. from 1991-
98 compared to 6 per cent
in eastern Canada, it says.
Cost increases . came
with unprecedented
changes in forest policy in
the 1990s, in particular the
introduction of the Forest
Practices Code in 1995.
That regulatory burden,
plus higher stumpage and
laxation: all contributed to
industry woes, higher un-
_. employment, reduced pro-
vincial growth and revenue
- symptoms of forestry’s |
malaise that the study lays
_. directly at the feet of the
‘provincial government.
Had the industry here
- kept pace with the rest -of -
* Canada, the study says,
B.C. would have seen:

Mi An increase of 2,500

jobs instead of a decrease
OF 25,000.

@ Capital. expenditure
in forestry $500 million in
1998 than the $729 million
reported

@ Higher government
revenues through increased
sales revenue, employ-
ment and overall increased
economic activity.

“The forest industry is
expected to report strongly
higher profitability in 1999
and the provincial econ-
omy has come out of re-

~» cession,” the report says.
~ “With further changes to
-government policy both in-

dustry profitability and'the 0°. 0.

provincial economy: ‘ca

improve further.” 0.»

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