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This week the Terrace Review asked:

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_ If there was a better selection of
organic produce at competitive prices,
would you be more inclined to buy

- organic?

Edgar Cole
Yes. If the prices were
competitive |’d sooner eat
organically grown pro-
duce than anything else.
Especially If it was locally
grown.

Ken & Lorna Morton

Lorna — If there was a
good selection | might
buy organic, We use a lot
of fruit and vegetables
and grow some of our
-own,

Ken — | don’t know per-
sonally if the evidence is
conclusive that there is
any difference in quality.
However, | am concerned
about the use of
pesticides and growth
hormones. We have mixed

Jill Wiley
Yes. | would be in-
terested in buying foods
grown with fewer pesti-
cides and chemicals. |
wouldn't even mind pay-
ing a bit more!

Jane Turner
Yes. If organic produce
was the same price anda
better selection, | would
buy It.

Leona Long
(from Prince Rupert)

“] Letters to. the Fditor

"| They won't be

coming back

To the Editor;

We as visitors — or “aliens’’,
as your fishing regulations de-
scribe us — would like to make a

‘few comments on your newly-

established fishing fees for those
of us from outside the province
of B.C.

1. We feel that $10 per fishing
rod per day was established to
tell us to stay home. This being
the case, we are going to do just
that! We understand that this
fee was adopted to give the
residents of B.C. a better chance
to fish, and it most certainly is
doing the job because tourists
who normally would stay for a
month or two are leaving for
their home or going straight
through to Alaska.

2. We wonder how the
residents of B.C. would react if
the U.S. imposed a tax upon

every B.C. resident who crossed
the border to buy groceries, gas,
etc., because they are so much
cheaper in the U.S. Now, this in-
flux of people from across the
border is causing a hardship on
the U.S. residents in the cities
along the border. This demand
has increased the price of all
commodities in these cities.

3. We have been guests of the
City of Terrace for 11 years, and
most certainly have given
benefits to the economy of this
region, We have enjoyed our-
selves here immensely, spent lots.
of money; sad to say ‘we won’t
be back!”

You can’t promote tourism by
imposing such an unreasonable
fee against the tourist.

Mr. & Mrs. Bert L. Spangler,

P.O. Box 32,
Enumclaw, Wa. 98022.

Bad habits among
the beverage crowd

To the Editor;

I wonder why people who
drink beer feel the need to leave

their bottles (intact or broken) -

and cans to litter paths and lake
shores and river banks.

I think anyone old enough to
be at the recreational areas avail-
able to us here is also able to
bring home their tins and bottles

-_and not create litter and danger
for bare feet. Broken glass and
tins hurt. —

For those who are not able
perhaps the adults or guardians
with them would help them
create a clean and healthy en-
vironment,

Lynn Buckle,
Terrace, B.C.

Forestry Insights —

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feelings.

} don’t think it really
makes much difference. |
buy some organic, but
mostly the other.

If you don’t know

what’s going on,
things go on
without you.

read the
Terrace Review

Sustut-Takla —

— Continued from page A5

well below capacity due to timber
shortages, the Rim mili closed
down altogether and Westar's
Kitwanga operation is also closed.

Pacific Inland Resources, West
Fraser’s sawmill in Smithers,
would have gotten 150,000 cubic
metres of the Sustut timber if the
ministry staff recommendations
had been followed. "It would have
madc an enormous difference to
us," said Ross Johnson, PIR’s mill

manager. The decision placed
additional pressure on the relative-
ly small Bulkley Timber Supply
Area, driving up local wood prices
and forcing clear-cut logging into
more visible.arcas, Johnson said.
Both Claude Richmond, Minister
of Forests, and his deputy minister
Philip Halkett failed to return
telephone messages left by the

Terrace Review.

"Integrated management", doing
everything in the same spot at the
same time, is a misunderstood and
misused term. It can’t be a reality.
Loggers. falling trees on tents
would be shot by the hunters. But
if you can think of “successive
multiple use", you might have a
concept that’s workable. For this,
though, we may have to wait for
society to mature a bit. We have to
be willing to accept change.

In "successive multiple use"
society would determine what is
most important in an area and then
determine the use, or possibly the
order of users. As an area began
losing value for one use, it would
gain value for another and both
would have to move. In most
cases, we would probably discover,
moving an activity to a new loca-
tion from time to time might offer

something better than what already

Before any of this happens, how-
ever, society has to begin asking
some important questions now.
Should we preserve it? And if so,

at what cost? Should we save the.

plants. and give up the potential
wealth of logging? Should we give
up the recreational experience?
Should we keep everyone out? Or
can we have it all? And in con-
sidering these questions there’s one
important fact to remember. IF we
save trees simply for the sake of
saving them, eventually we'll end
up with nothing. The trees will be
too old for the loggers and too
dangerous for the tourist. Nature
will have reclaimed her own.

Next week, we begin our dis-
cussion on the British Columbia
tenure system. Is it an effective -
management tool, or is it the rea-
son we have so many management
problems?

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