Kitlope logging pian delayed until 1994 | TERRACE _ ay Sawmills -is delaying its plans to log the environmentally sensitive Kitlope River valley until 1994, to allow more time for studies of the area. ~ ? Environmental, native and’ , -sportfishing groups have attack- ed plans to. log the . ~ 317,000-hectare’ watershed, SAY- | ' ing it should instead be preserv- ed. The valley is south of a Kemano at the end of Gardner Canal, » Company representatives said they have now decided to put -off their Kitlope logging plans ” iin part as a result of public con- cern. :Skeena Sawmills planning : forester Scott Marieau said last » week the ‘company is instead giving notice of plans to resume operations in the south end of “their: tree. farm licence. While the company reviews its Kitlope plans, he said, it wants to log other sections of the Gardner Canal to meet their annual wood volume targets for the Tegion. < . Marleau said fisheries depart- ment requests for more studies and delays in getting approval from the forests ministry were also factors in the decision, ‘“We are trying to resolve all ‘there,’’ of these issues before we get in -Marteau said. “Originally we were going to go in next year, Now we're prapos- ing to go into it in, 1994. So we want. to harvest: in alternate areas while. we ‘try to resolve ‘this.’” . Alternate areas to be cut ine’ clude ‘continued logging of wood being. cleared ‘for the new powerline right-of-way to Kemano, and A-frame fogging of smaller areas along Gardner Canal, including the Barrie Creek, watershed. Marleaw said logging plans in the Kitlope are “controversial” and said this is really the first time Skeena Sawmills has faced a concerted effort to preserve an’ area of old-growth forest over which it holds cutting rights. “lt’s kind of a sign of the times,’’ he said of public in- terest in the Kitlope. "But I think it's good that we address the issue before there actually is a problem. After all, it's not Skeena Sawmills’ property. It’s Crown land — you and J own it.’ Marleau said Skeena Sawmills is carrying out far more studies on the Kitlope than it ever has for any other area. More study needed TERRACE -— Skeena Sawmills’ plan to tow logs down part of the Kitlope River is meeting opposition from the Department: of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)... The companies logging plans for the valley include a proposal to tow the logs on the lower six kilometres of the river, to avoid building a road through the en- vironmentally sensitive floodplain and tidal flats near the river mouth, **There’s quite a bit of sen- sitive habitat on the lower fioodplain area,’’ Skeena Sawmills planning forester Scott Marleau said. ‘We feel that towing on the river is a much smaller i impact thariifsyou appoints TERRACE — The University of Northern B.C. has named Geoffrey Weller as its first president — he is currently academic vice-president at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. In making the announce- ment, interim governing council chairman Murray Sadler described Weller as a skilled ad- ‘ ministrator and = strong negotiator who worked well with both government and com- , munity agencies. Weller assumes the post Jan. 1, 1991 and wiil spend his first few months in office travelling throughout northern B.C. talk- ing to individuals, groups and institutions in the various com- munities. _Also announced last. week - was.the hiring of the project manager for the new university. Desmond Parker, a one-time 20-year resident of Prince George, is now employed at the UBC wher he works on campus planning and development, Parkers first job will be to | assist in the selection of design architects and other consultants needed to draw up plans for the proposed Prince George cam- pus. — ~ Heller to. Hazelton TERRACE — School district 88 ‘maintenance superintendent - Lothar Heller has been named to supervise construction of the district's new secondary school at Hazelton. Schools superintendent Frank . Hamilton said Harry Eberis will | replace Heller in maintenance. He also said Bruce Matthews will take over as both purchas- ing agent and. ‘assistant secretary-ireasurer’ —.a new position. Matthews replaces the outgoing Basil Griffin, who is retiring next month, . * study, had to build a road.” But DFO fisheries biologist Leslie Powell said approval of the plan isn’t likely until the federal fisheries department is convinced the log-booming won’t disrupt the riverbed and destroy spawning habitat. ‘We have told them that the proposal is not supported by adequate information and that we don’t feel they’ve adequately examined the allernatives,’’ Powell said. He said DFO has requested the company carry out further environmental studies of the channel as a_ result of the “definite gaps in the data’? col- lected"in a company-sponsored : Head fabitede Aree a “There are differences ‘bet- ween their assessment of the towing: route and the depart-. ment’s,'’ Powell explained. “Our study did not agree with what the company’s consultant found regarding the water depth . in the deepest part of the chan- nel, _ The estimated five - millian cubic metres of commercially accessible timber in the valley. would provide 13 per cent of: ‘annual. re- Skeena Sawmills’: quirement for the next 50 years, at the proposed cutting rate of. roughly 100,000 cubic metres of wood a year, . Marleau said that amount of wood sounds enormous,’ but represents only 14 per cent of the valley’s productive forest, and only 2,7: per cent, of: the watershed’s total area. . Environmentalists and guide- outfitters who use the area say any logging there will reduce the valiey’s tourism value and destroy grizzly bear and salmon spawning habitat... .. Marleau said the Kitlope is a vital component of the com- pany’s logging plans that can’t be deleted without costs to the Operation and its workers. — “Either it (the wood) has to come from somewhere else, or we shut the mill down for a while or lay off a shift — and that means jobs,’’ he said, **There’s mo reason why we shouldn’t (log it}. There is the potential for working forest there with minimal disturbance of the ecosystems.” ’ Serra El i Thar You The Terrace Stock Car Association would like to ‘extend speclal thanks t to the following business’ and people on helping io make the 1990 Stock Car Season the great success that it was. Without these: reat People we Able Electric (4988) Lid. “3 Auto Marine Electric Ltd.” Bare’s Trophy Dan ©: Blue Ridge Graphics’ Budget Rent A Car — Cedarland Tire Cher-Phi! 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