INIDE = = SPORTS MENUC2. “SKEENA ANGLER ROB BROWN The big picture HE MEDIA circus portrays " the. Clayoquot standoff as a duel between eco-freaks and red-necked tubes to deliberately deflect public attention _[ - from the real issue. . ‘The NDP-is spared a flogging by establishment . press aid television, thus the stupidity and hypocrisy of allowing logging escapes scrutiny. “In its zeal to appease Big Union and Big Busi- toss, the government comes down on the side of the nine multi-national forest giants who control ; two-thirds of BC’s public foresis. "Po judge the events of Clayoquol accurately we ~-must view a larger screen: Global TV, not BCTV. _ On Global we see our forests contain the oldest ‘trees in the world. Underneath is ihe world’s “heaviest accumulation of organic matter, fastest developing soil and a diversity of organisms even greater than the tropical forests. ‘The camera shifts. We are shocked to find the ‘tropical rain forests cover G10 million hectares of “fhe Earth’s surface, while the temperate tain ~ forest we allow to be liquidated faster than in In- ~donesia or Brazil, covers a mere 23 million ha. _- Images of depletion flicker across the screen. © Only 40 per cent of the original temperate rain forest still stands. It is the last stand of last stands. Tf cutting continues at the present pace, says the narrator, if no areas are preserved, there will be no ecologically viable stand of old growth forest within two decades. To press the point, the Global TY cameras sweep over Oregon and Washinglon, We see no udogged watershed larger than 500 hectares. ___..Now historical . footage: ‘black and. white film : ‘trom’ "1945" when myopic governments wooed large logging companies with perpetually renew- able contracts and bargain basement stumpage.: | The historical footage continues. So does the fire sale of BC forests. We've seen more logs ex- tracted in the last 10 years than all the years be- . fore that. Fewer people taking out more trees. Only 40 per cent of the_ original temperate rain . forest still stands. It is the © ~ last stand of last stands. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 24, 1993 - C1 | 7 ~ SECTION: c MALCOLM BAXT ER 638-7283 ervais blitzes rivals, books national berth | BRIAN GERVAIS doesn’t like to waste time. Ask Andrew DaSilva or Shane - Esher, Especially Esher. They are the pair boxers who faced Tetrace’s Gervais, 15, in “the recent. provincjal boxing championships. - Gervais went {o the tournament Jooking: to grab the Junior C 160ibs. and book a berth at the nationals. With no opposition in thal divi- sion, he moved up to take on the intermediates. First up was DaSilva out of the Elk Valley club in Sparwoad. That bout lasted all of one minute and 36 seconds before the ref stepped in to stop the massacre. Gervais was evel more im- patient in the final, ending it al- most before the opening bell had finished vibrating. Forty five seconds was all it took to persuade the ref to siop the bout: you blinked, you missed the fight. ‘The Kelowna championship also produced two more nationals - spots Terrace club fighters. Robert Doane, a 124lb, Inter- mediate, found no-one waiting al his weight so also had 10 move up to get a fight, His opponent was Mall O’Brien, 132 Ibs., of Campbell River, the ’91 National Junior champion and member of the B,C. team last year. But the experience and weight advantage were no help against Doane who took a 5-0 decision ta book his return trip to the Nalion- als. And Jocy Losier walked over after no-one showed up lo conles! the 139lb, Intermediate class. Nor did offering to move up and take on the. seniors help him see ring action. The Kelowna winner of the seniors division begged off be- cause that. category’s - Nationals was coming up in juls two weeks and he didn’t want to risk an in- jury. The other senior present, five- time nalional champion Jeff Hill, also declined the invilation be- cause of an injury sustained dur- ing the Kelowna tournament. For Terrace’s remaining entry at the provincials, the result was, a near miss. Buddy Doane, a 1391), Tunior C fee fighter, lost a 3-2 split decision-to Brendan Fry of New: West- minsicr’s Queensboro club. The loss-made for a frustrating. month for Doane, having lost a 4- 1 decision to Jason Storey of Campbell River at the Bronze Gloves in Cranbrook, = At thal same championship, Aaron Petevella was climinated by Alex Munoz of the Shayolin | Club of Prince George, Munoz unleashing a first round TKO. Gervais and Jonathan Doane came home Bronze Glove champs without lacing up a glove, both finding themselves wilhoul an opponent. g Returnee on roll BACK ON his old stomping ground, Dan Tuomi was In town playoff round to get under way. Judging by the round robin “ over. the weekend for Saturday’s Terrace Badminton Mixed results, his game Is every bit as good as it used tobe when @& Open tournament. Above, he stays loose while waiting for the he was one of the Terrace club’s best. Results next week. We shake our heads as (he Big Companies x= | (ract-the lion’s share of the wood from our forest land base. A logging convoy 120 kilometres long, all its trucks fully loaded, rolls across the screen. *1E these trucks roll every day, they will haul 73 million cu.m. of wood,’’ says the narrator. The Big Picture gets clearer. The multi- nationals detest the constraints of the North American Environmental Protection, Endangered. Species and National Forest Acts in the US. Detest being restricted to 16 ha: clear cuts in Washington or Oregon, preferring a place where they can log blocks of 30-300 ha, and regula- tion/enforcement is ineffectual /non-existent. Yes, they love the third world country of BC where they pay $7/cu.m. stumpage while their smail competitors pay three times that. The lens now focuses on Carnation Creek where BC’s Coastal Foresiry-Fisheries Logging Guidelines were developed in the late 1980s. Another shock: the roving camera shows the 21 logging sites randomly sampled by Tripp and As- sociates at govemment: request. Each "has sustained moderate to severe damage. Logging companies supposed to police themselves did not. As the documentary nears conclusion, premier Mike delivers his Sermon. on ‘the Mount, saying the decision to log the most-prominent of the few remaining watersheds on Vancouver Island was made after a fair public process...which it wasn't. He says the Clayoquot will be .shared, a euphemism for logging the merchantable timber _ and leaving the rest. ‘Next, the Harcourt announcing new, tough forestry guidelines. Is this a happy ending? - Will these laws mean foresis being treated as ecosystems ralher than timber farms? Will they begin lo loosen the grip of the forest oligopolics? — Will they begin the much neéded shift to man- agement by community. resource boards that put long term, sustainable economic heeds ahead of the private profits of the Big Nine? ~ -Lead to forest management ‘that considers ge- netic, species and ecosystem diversity? The documentary ends with a fash back to No- vember, 1992 and’ Brian Mulroney announcing | Canada is the first nation to ratify the biodiversity | treaty negotlated al the Earth Summit in Rio. Ah, Canada: Environmental leader of the west- em world, stewards of ils: mperate: ‘min forests. _ wherein: the most’ -valuab! found) - Blueback progress right on long range target, says TERRACE BLUEBACKS may have had to settle for third in thelr own swim meet, but coach Mike Carlyle had no complaints after {he McDonald’s Invitational. Winning meets, he explained, is not the club’s objective at this carly stage of the season. Instead, the aim is to get in as many swims as possible, work on technique and sce a steady im- provement in personal times. “The provincials. are the larget;”’ Carlyle emphasized. To underline the point, he recalled Blucbacks who lost races to northwestern rivals in regional meets last season reversed the form when it counted, at the B.C. championships. And this year he’s looking for the same measured progress. The Nov. 12-14 meet provided just that with no fewer than 69 per cent personal best times being put together by Terrace swim- mers, Leading in thal category was Audrey Erb, 11, who broke her own marks in all nine events she entered. “That included “AAA - qualifying limes in both the 50m . -Free and 200m Breast. ° Randce Armstrong, another li-- year-old, went. seven for cight, _ missing out on a perfect. per- a forimance- ‘by just .one: hundredth : -of a second. in the 100m Free. © Audrey Erb ' Carlyle noted the mect was the first time either Erb or Armstrong had swum in 200m events, both having moved up 4n age group this year, In that same age group, ieam- . Toate. Marina Checkley’ had a- strong weekend, posting 70 per cent personal bests including an 800m Free AAA qualifying time. Seven top ‘three finishes also earned her overall bronze in the girls 11-12 years division. Garth’ Coxford provided :-the Bluebacks with their lone overall _ gold, beating out teammate Chris - ‘Kerman in boys 11-12-years. - ' Coxford swam to. five: wins and... | five placts while Kerman Deke Kevin Andoilfatto up three victorics and wenl cight- for-nine in top three finishes. Kevin Andolfatio and Jamie Kerman finished in the silver and ° ‘bronze spots among 13-14 ycars boys, Thomas Demetzer and Keagan Soutar finishing in the sane positions in the 7-8 ycars . age group, Two more. silvers came, from Tristan Brown (9-10 years boys) and Aimee Peacock (girls 15 years and up). “ Carlyle pointed ‘out Peacock had managed that placing despite -having to miss Sunday’s racing. “He also ‘oted a number of Bluebacks’ Bluebacks had lo battle not only coach their opponents but also a bug that was doing the rounds. - “There were a lot of kids suf fering,’ he said, adding Kitimat Marlins had faced similar prob- lems. Although out of the placings, a number of Bluebacks had good reason to come away from (he meet feeling happy with their per-. formance. Brent McKamey broke his per- sonal best in all seven events he entered while Michelle ‘Francis, Jennifer Kester, Liam Murphy , Kyla Rice, Judy Stephenson and Julie Vanderlee were only one short of posting a perfect record. Dylan MacCormac went six- for-seven, his best result being a second in the 200m Breast. Prince Rupert took advantage of its large entry fo finish first over- all .with the Kitimat Marlins runners-up. The Bulkley Valliy Otters and Massel club rounded out the meet which drew 179 swimmers,- | The Bluebacks headed to Prince |” George last. weekend, 4 meet which Carlyle said would intro. duce them to a slightly higher ‘Level of competition. a He anticipated that stiffer oppo- os sition and the fact il was an out of . ~ region trip would help: lift the -- performances still a Further.