industry: practices. . fn generale - everyone, supports : ‘the “idea .of a demonstration. forest at-Red Sand Lake. The - ‘+ Kalum Forest District is pursu- ing the possibility of establishing | -a.demonstration forest at this — site with an objective of increas- - ing public awareness of effective forest management. practices in the province. -. They propose to do this with ; an. appealing, informative site. on the west Kalum Road that represents a cross: section of. forest ‘types and management | techniqués in B.C. When com- ° . pleted, the forest-would provide . . both hiking and roadway access ‘to viewing areas, wildlife obser- -vation opportunities and fisher- _ ies enhancement. To begin ‘the process, the min- _ istry has contracted ‘the services -of a. consultant and set. up a Demonstration Forest Advisory Operations Manager for.the Ka- lum Forest District, regional dis-: trict. Director ..Les: Watmough, city Tourism and Economic De- ~; ‘velopment Officer Peter Mon-’ - teith; School-District 88. Director of. ‘Instruction Harold Cox, - Northwest -Community College ‘Forestry Technologists Program . . coordinator Shane Campbell of - Hazelton, and ‘company: offi-* cials-from Skeena Sawmills and ‘Skeena Cellulose.: The first com-» . Mittee meeting was held Sept. 14. _and provided an opportunity for. . its members to become familiar * -with the concept, review the . consultant’s. work to date and . visit the proposed. Red Sand © Lake site. According to the regional dis- trict, the ministry consultant has recommended anding the Red -Committee: : The ‘committee: ine. i - cludes.project leader Ian. Bowie, tinct ‘areas: :a-training site ‘and -gsource of ‘naterials : -for the Ter- “race Correctional Centre, a rec- - reational area, aiid. the demon- stration forest itself, Informa- . tion from the ministry suggests the Hart Farm -would become. ‘the. center of an ‘‘operational ‘forest’’ to be adminstered by the -Kalum Forest’ District in conjuc- “tion with’ the ‘Centre. This’ would provide - a ‘site: ‘where: ‘Correctional. workers could be ‘trained in thinning Correctional equipment:.and_ techniques: as well. asia 150-hectare renewable ‘source of firewood and fencing materials for the center. The recreational area would encompass the north half of Red Sand Lake and would provide interpretive trails, campsites, picnic areas and connector trails . to the demonstration forest. The * demonstration forest would be contained. in an 80-to-100- hectare site located on the south- - ern shores of Red Sand. Lake and western: shores. of Treston Lake. Specific features proposed?for the demonstration forest aré in- tended to provide educational examples of forestry techniques and their value to industry and the environment. These include a pine spacing.and fertilization trial site, the demonstration of pest concerns and recent planta- tion maintenance, selective har- vesting in old growth forests, a _ recent clearcut showing current techiques as compared to old growth, thinning regimes and change in species mix, a compar- ison of brushing treatments on a rich backlog system, an example of wikdlife enhancement, and wero. Go at Se et ecosystem “enhancement ° and . training. . The project is financed by the South Moresby Forest Replace- ment Account (SMFRA) whose ~ primary objective is to enhance. forests in the Vancouver, North-. - coast and Kalum areas in order. to compensate for the loss of timberland and.:jobs in the Queen Charlotte Islands that. came out of the South Moresby: . federal-provincial .- -park agree- ment. Their goalis to show how ‘timber. values. canbe increased ~ . through a variety of stand treat-. ments. The implementation Plan: for athe Red Sand project is sched- wed to -take place over the next’: five years. and includes-a series. of development; training. and : trial programs. . a evita ~ but. regional district appoints watchdog advisor — When the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine examined the Ministry of Forests demonstra-. tion forest proposal for: Red Sands Lake, the basic concept was generally accepted but a few . board directors took. exception -to some of the details: namely, the -proposed location, How it would be divided and the impli- cation that a demonstration for- ést is representative. ‘of current ot It was suggested that the qual: . ity of road -access to the pro- posed Red Sand Lake. site was . questionable and a better loca- tion might be. at Kitsumkalum Provincial Park. The Kitsumka-. lum Provincial Park is located - on the southeast. end of Kalum Lake and accessible by the paved Rosswood road. The park -is listed on the official B.C. Road Map and Parks Guide as consisting of 44 hectares and featuring 20 campsites, swim- ming and fishing. Also, the name. “‘demonstra- tion forest’? was attacked on principle. Several directors said they would-support the concept of a project which demonstrated what should have been done... but not one that pretended to represent the industry as it ac- tually exists. Director Harry Nyce asked if the project was to: demonstrate the ills of the indus- ° try or how to preserve forests. ‘It’s a form ofa lie,’’ he said... ‘It gives a misconception of the: industry.’’ John: LeSage defend- ed the idea, however. ‘‘I don’t think it’s lying,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s ‘just a poor choice of words.’’ Les Watmough agreed with Nyce. ‘1 would agree with a demonstration forest provided the practices in the field are the same as in the demonstration forest,’ Watmough said. “They ~ should be saying, ‘This is the way we do forestry in B.C, — -glear cutting, slash burning and logging right up to the creeks.”” He added that if the demonsira- tion forest proposal was what our forests should really look like, people should take forestry officials to task and say, “Hf this is the way it ought to be, why don’t you do it?” Gordon Sebastian, on the other, hand, described the von- eeptina different way: a typical government move... too little too late. At a time when indus- try. has apparently depleted the resource they are now going to . ‘build a model of what they had. “This is the forest forever con- ‘cept,’’ said Sebastian. ‘‘It’s like -a museum of what should have been but is already gone,’’ All this discussion was’ “pre- ceded, however, by a suggestion from Watmough that.'a pre- requisite to accepting the forestry proposal was an understarding of the’ history” of the proposed site. “ According to Watrnough, a number of people settled in the Kalum Lake. area around the. turn of the century. One built a large two-story home in a clear- ing on the shores of Red Sand Lake while another, Bill Tres- ton, built on the south shores of Kalum Lake. Treston later sold his property to Joe Hart and it became known as the Hart Farm, - Also in the area in those early years was the Kalum Hotel on the east side of the lake, and just south of that a forestry cabin built by (regional district direc- tor) Bob Cooper’s father on a 30-to-40-acre site directly across ithe lake from the Hart Farm. Carl Pohle was logging south of the Hart Farm at the time and there were many others who helped to develop this historic area, - As progress began to overtake history, the area began to change. The site of Cooper’s forestry cabin became the site of > the Kitsumkalum. Provincial — Park in the 1930’s — but it was never developed. Joe Hart later sold his farm and a number of other adjacent properties he had acquired to Columbia Cellulose with all timber rights. Later, Columbia Cellulose also pur- chased Pohle’s timber rights. As .for the Kalum Hotel, it was moved and restored and is now the centerpiece of Heritage Park. : in the mid- seventies, the Hart Farm was placed under the juris- diction of School District 88 who hired a caretaker, Pete . Johnston, and using the original buildings iurmed the Hart Farm into a recreational camping and educalidnal facility for Terrace school students. In the early 1980's, however, the School Dis- trict deemed the property too ‘expensive and the land was re- turned to it’s previous owner. They, in turn, made a trade with forestry for some cutting rights ‘near Hazelton. ~ At this point, Watmough told the’ board, ‘the Parks Branch said they would: assume respon- sibility for the property and a short time later vandals had stripped muth of the original Hart Farm bunkhouse and bro- ken ‘several’ windows; but the main building was still structur- _ ally sound: The Parks Branch - then turned title over to forestry _as a designated recreational aréa. This was shortly before high school graduation. ceremonies .were to take place; according to Watmough, and forestry offi- cials burned the Hart Farm buildings in anticipation of the usual teenage onslaught. ‘‘This was their answer, ** said Wat- mough. ‘‘It may-have been justi- fied but they probably didn’t contact: heritage people or the Hart family... they could have been moved: Now the forest service wants to put a demon- stration forest in there.” ~ Watmough then went on to describe an earlier demonstra- tion forest at Pine Lake located about half way between Red - Sand Lake and Terrace. This — project took place in 1982/83 and .according to ‘Weimoigh, ee ‘They logged everything . in site.” And, ‘‘Later, a landing: fire got away and burned ‘the - whole site.’” He said nobody in forestry will talk about this par- - ticular project and he’s con- cerned the same- thing could happen at Red Sand Lake. For all the negatives, how- ever, the board’ did see many positives. 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