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Save the Tat call issued
TWO AMERICAN politicans say the Tatshenshini River
_ system should be turned into a world heritage site.

Congressman Wayne Owens of Utah and Senator Al Gore
of Tennessee are sponsoring a joint resolution calling for
preservation of the area in the extreme northwest corner of.
the province,

The resolution, if successful, would pose another challenge
to Toronto-based Geddes Resources Ltd., which wants to
build a huge copper mine atop Windy Craggy Mountain on
the Tatshenshini River.

Environmentalists oppose the project — which would
create 600 jobs to mine $$ billion worth of copper — because
of fears of acid mine drainage contaminating the river.

The resolution, now before the Congress, would require
Washington begin joint negotiations with Ottawa aimed at
preserving the entire Alsek and Tatshenshini River water-
sheds.

The company has already spent $36 million on the project
and says ‘it can mine the copper without harming the river
system...

: Book-sharing planned

NORTHWEST. COMMUNITY College and the University of
‘Northern B.C. (UNBC) got a little closer together last week
with the announcement of a shared northern library system,
__NWCC and the other two northern B.C. colleges — Nor-
thern Lights College and the College of New Caledonia —
join UNBC in. what’s being called the Northern Post-
Secondary Library Consortium.

University officials say the agreement means better and
more equal access to post-secondary library resources and ser-
vices throughout the north. The agreement calls for enhanced
cooperation, and is to eliminate unnecessary duplication of
collections and services.

And to mark the start of construction on the university’s
main campus in Prince George, premier Mike Harcourt was
on hand for a sod-turning ceremony there last week.

... Pesticide use probed
WEED CONTROL and pesticide use is the focus of a newly
formed.committee of government agency representatives and
northwest residents.

The Northwest Weed Committee is to develop short- and
long-term programs for identification, prevention and con-
trol of noxious weeds such as Canada thistle, knapweed and
leafy spurge. ;

The establishment of the committee comes in response to
public concern in the past about the use of herbicides to con-
trol weeds.

as, The. group's common goal is to reduce the reliance on
chemical-based herbicide programs.

On the committee are representatives of the environment
ministry, highways ministry, regional districts, cattle farmers

and environmentalist opposed to pesticide use.

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TERRACE — They're back!

With western tent caterpillars
having been spotted on trees
and shrubs, horrified local
gardeners are bracing
themselves for another summer
of leafy carnage. _

But, says regional en-
tomologist Tim Ebata, while the
caterpillars may be a nuisance,
‘they're not really that
detrimental to the tree.”

Even if it suffers severe
defoliation, he explained tree
deaths from caterpillar attack
were rare because the tree would
usually produce, a;second Crop.
of leaves in late summer.-

Therefore, unless people were
“really worried about having an
ugly looking tree for a while,”’
Ebata said there was no need to
take action against the crawling
critters.

If, however, they. are deter-
mined to fight back, he urged
caution when it came to using
pesticides. “‘We’ve heard of
people asking for the strangest
things,”® he added,

In fact, the caterpillar can be
combatted without the use,of
chemicals because it is a bit of a
home-bedy, never straying far
from its tent during the day and
always returning therein ‘the
cool of the evéning, ,

Ebata said an early morning
or late evening raid should find

‘the caterpillars -huddled

together in the.tent. [t-was. then
a simple matter of clipping. off
the piece of branch to which the
tent was attached and burning
it.

Not only was that method
very effective, it was also pro-
bably a lot.simpler than
chemical spraying, he sug-

. pested.

As for how long the area will
have to. put up with. its
unwelcome guests, Ebata’:said
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