A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 13, 1994 Chief forester will decide WITH THE Kalum South timber supply analysis now released, the public input process has gol un- der way. District Forest. Service slaff were te meel this week with Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht, logging outfits operating under the Small Business program, the industry majors, Nisga’a Tribal Council and Kitimat-Stikine regional districl, That las! mecting would also in- clude representatives “from Ter- race city council and chamber of commerce, said forest. district manager Brian Downie. Also under way. is a socio- economic study which will assess the effect of any reductions in the annual allowable cul on the economies and people living in lhe area’s communities. That study, plus a discussion paper based on the timber supply analysis, are expected to be released next month. That release will trigger a 90- day public input period. a The results of that, plus the var- ious reporis, go to the province’s chief foreste:, John Cuthbert. “Only the chief forester has the mandate, the authorily - te determine the AAC (annual al- lowable eul),”’ explained Downie. However, prior to any decision Cuthbert would take ‘advice?’ from Forests minister Andrew Petter on socio-economic matters. Downie said the Kalum South timber supply analysis was carried oul as part of a project launched in 1992 which targeted completion of timber reviews for all forest districts by next year, He also noted timber supply analyses are carried out in a dif- ferent manner these days. ‘*There was always a search for from front Second growth a key amount: of wood that will be available for cutting in the long: -{~ em He said they were convinced, based on their field experience, \hat sites were far more produc- live than assumed, particularly in the Kitimal Valley. However, Downie conceded, even here Lhe observations were not necessarily representative. That’s because sllviculturalists were dealing with sites that had been logged some years ago. Logging in the Kalum-South to date has been concentrated on what are classified as good or. me- dium growing sites. Nearly all good sites and two thirds of the mediums have been cut. But 44 per cent of the har- veslable forests are on poor sites and less than a quarter of those have been logged (o date. Another point silviculturalists raise is managed stands will come back faster and produce greater volumes than naturals because of programs such as. juvenile spac- ing and commercial thinning. If their arguments are right, Downie noted, then the. calcula- tion changes dramatically and northwest forests have a bright future. That’s confirmed by a projec- tion of what happens if second growth trees can-be cut 20 years canier and provide 50 per cent higher volumes than assumed in the base case, oe That scenario sees. a slight drop in the current AAC 50 years from now followed by a rapid climb to a long term level of harvest high- er than today’s. IL is however the only one that shows the current AAC can be mitintaincd in the short term. Correction A story published in the July 6 Terrace Standard stated that evi- dence at a rape trial indicated Ihat prior to the incident, the accused man suffered a blow to his head in a fight with “bouncers at George’s Pub al the Northern Motor Inn. a In fact, the fight with the boun- cers look place at a bar al the Ter- race Inn, The Northern Motor [nn does nol employ bouncers, — kkk kk The Standard published the May 2 conviction of Joanne Cote on a charge of theft under $1,000 in the June 29 edition. - That conviction is now being appealed. ; Peake Brian Downie perfect data,” he explained, ad- ding they tended lo look al a whole range of ‘‘what if op- tions’’. As a result, the process was cumbersome and lime consuming with only a handful of reviews being completed between 1981 and 1991. - Now, Downie said, analyses look at a single scenario based on current forest practices and taking ihe Forest Service’s integrated Tesource management approach into account, ‘‘what’s happening rather than what if,”’ However, recognizing there are yariables, each review also looks at what are called ‘‘sensitivity analyses’’. These look at things like stand- ing timber, second growth, landscape issues and assess how the overall picture alters if as- sumptions are changed, By including those, he added, allowed the chief forester to see the significance of various factors in both the short and long term. necds to do more research In the case of the Kalum South, it had underlined the need for a site index study. A site index is essentially used to assess how tall trees will grow over a given period, in other words relates to the productivity of a given sile. Current estimates are largely based on mature, natural stands in which, because of their age, rees are not putting on much new growth, ~ ; — One question is how quickly did they grow in the early stages? Another’ is how much more quickly would they grow under managed conditions, — In an effort to come up with answers, Nicholson said a site in- dex study got under way on Mon- day. He said the samples will be rep- resentative of the Forest Service’s Management objectives. There~ fore, they will include 200-year- old stands which, although natu- tal, have the same number of trees. per hectare as targeted in managed stands. And the study will lock at a number of immature, 20-30 year old stands, Based on indices, stands are classified as good, medium or poor growing silcs. Currently only eight per cent of the sites in Kalum South are clas- sified as good, 48 per cent me- dium and 44 per cent poor. 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