Small logger left in limbo SAM REYNOLDS thought he bad found just enough work to kecp him going until the forest industry survives its downturn. The salvage hand logger discovered two small patches of fallen cedar, one of 460 cubic metres and the other of 500 cubic metres, on two islands off the north coast. He filed the appropriate paperwork with the North Coast Forest District in Prince Rupert and spent money gelting teady to go to work. Instead, Reynolds has found himself in the company of the province’s largest resource industries — effectively frozen because of a groundbreaking Supreme Court land claims decision. The. Delgamuukw case, stemming from the Gitxsan claim to lands surrounding ‘the Hazeltons, has increased the amount of influence natives have on resource use decisions within their traditional territories, The case indicates aboriginal title exists as a right to the land itself and for uses other than what has been consider- ed traditional native practices of hunting and fishing. But the decision has left banging the exact nature of any discussions ‘between natives, governments and ather resource users on various kinds of activities on traditional territories. It’s this kind of uncertainty that bas put a stop, for now, to the logging plans Reynolds has. He moved to Terrace from Campbell River three years ago and runs a small salvage tug out of Kitimat. With the forest industry facing the worst crunch in mere than a decade, Reynolds says he’s one of those out to create his own work to put food on the table and to pay the bills, “[ just don’t know why we can’t go and log it,” said Reynolds last week. “‘That cedar has been down for some time already.” “There's a market for cedar right now and all you have to do is go and clean il up.”’ “I?ll be enough to keep me going for the rest of the year —— to feed me for awhile,” Mare Bosse of the North Coast Forest District sympathizes with Reynolds but says he’s Caught up in the Delgamuukw case. “Unfortunately nobody has a clear understanding of what a First Nations consullation means,”’ said Bosse of the requirement arising from the case to gain native opinions on resource develapment on their traditional terri- to So we're taking the cautious approach. ” That means, for Reynolds, a letter written by the forest service to the Gitga’at First Nation, the Tsimshian band at Hartley Bay. “Our question is do they have concems in their area of A SUPREME GOURT decision on land claims has leit salvage logger Sam Reynolds stuck in his efforts to clean up two small logging shows.. interest. Our first step is to meet with them,”’ said Bosse. He acknowledges that the wood wanted by Reynolds is not a jot by industry standards, but says the forest service has legal obligations, Under normal circumstances, salvage logging approval doesn't take that long but there is no set timeline to deal with native issues. “Hopefully, in the next month, things will be resolved,” said Bosse. Reynolds says he’s frustrated with what is going on. “I'm not going to go out and kill those trees, They are already down,’ he said. And Reynolds said he’s at least following regulations. “There are people out there cutting without permits and getting away with it.’ ‘Along the shoreline there are all kinds of trees cut off and taken in,” he said. Lawyers keep on flying LAWYERS are expected to continue flying up here from Vancouver to handle legal aid cases because of a strike by local defence lawyers, Legal Services Society client services manager Frank Kramer had hoped a local legal aid lawyer would be in a position to take over much of that workload. But he said Lax Ghels Community Law Centre staff lawyer Terry Brown suffered a heart attack and is out of action. “"We have continued to fly Jawyers there and we will for the forseeable future at least until he’s back on his feet again,’’ Kramer said. Lawyers are being flown in on Tuesdays and Fridays. Defence lawyers here in carly May began refusing basic legal aid work such as first court appearances and bail hearings for people who are in custody, It marked the spread of the legal ald strike from several other parts of the province, Lawyers are trying to force the province to put more money into the legal aid system. 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