From front Firm says Kalum land use plan won’t hit jobs Miligit Creek area in the Upper Copper preserved, but it?s instead to be handled as a special man- agement zone, along with a number of other sensitive areas. In all special manage- ment zones take in 24 per cent of the repion. The lar- gest such zones ure. the Upper Copper River, the Upper. Kitsumkalum: and the Kowesas valley. Logging is also to be restricted in the rest of the tO protect grizzly bears and mountain goats. “This plan provides land-use certainty by ad- dressing the environmental and international concerns associated with the man- aging of a temperate rain- forest,” said Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht, — “This agreement as far as we’re concerned is not going to have a real significant im- pact on our logging operations.” A few protected areas under the plan are close to Terrace. They include Sleeping Beauty Mountain, Lakelse Lake wetlands, Kitsumka- lum Lake North, and the Hai Lake-Mount Herman area. An impact study con- cluded the plan’s provi- sions won't reduce forest industry jobs — at least for the short term - but could stunt industry growth in the future. Although relatively lit- tle new land has been pro- tected under the Kalum plan, West Fraser officials point out their company already made a huge con- tribution. In 1995 West Fraser vo- *: - luntarily surrendered cut- ting rights to the Kitlope © Accident probed RCMP SPECIALISTS spent April 9 recreating an accident involving a po- lice vehicle and a pedes- trian. The Feb. 3 late night collision occurred when Harvey Wells tried to run across Hwyl6 at the Grand Trunk Pathway. Cst. Mike L’Italien, who was responding to a bar fight at the time, drove off the highway in an un- successful attempt to avoid Wells. Now, police are trying to determine how fast L’Htalien was going at the moment of impact. But in the process.of re- creating the accident much of the grass has been dug up and will need to be Teseeded. That bill could add up to $1,000, which the RCMP will have to pay, said McBeath. The results from the testing are being sent to an engineering firm in Van- couver who will analyze the data and hopefully de- termine the speed at which the police vehicle hit Wells, said McBeath. Wells suffered serious injuries as a result of the collision. “His face struck the windshield or the pillar on the corner of the door,” said McBeath. “So, lots of facial injuries.” Neither L’Italien or the Valley southeast of Kema- no, which was then de- scribed as the largest un- logged temperate rainfor- est in the world. The Kitlope - at 317,000 hectares — repre- sents more than 68 per cent of the land now pro- tected in this region. “West Fraser has made the most significant contri- - bution to ‘the protection of coastal temperate rainfor- est of any forest company in Canada,” chief forester Bruce MacNicol said. He estimated the inclu- sion of the Foch and Gil- tayees watersheds — will trim the company’s annual timber cut by up to five per cent. MacNicol said workers for West Fraser shouldn't fear the effects of the plan. “This agreement as far as we’re cancerned is not going to have a real signif- icant impact on our log- ging operations,” he said. “And it’s going to have zero impact on our pulp mill in Kitimat or our saw- mill in Terrace,” An area of lingering un- cerlainty is the company's agreement with environ- mental groups to continue to défer logging in 11 pris- tine watersheds south of Kitimat for up to two years while all parties attempi to craft new rules called eco- system-based manage- ment. MacNicol admits they don’t know exactly what rules will result from that process. West Fraset’s agree- ment on that front is the apparent reason environ- mental groups have drop- Wayne Clogg ped international market campaigns against the company and Interfor. Any suggestion West Fraser sold out workers here for environmental peace is wrong, said vice- president Wayne Clogg. “West Fraser could very, very easily have made a deal with the en- vironmental groups a year ago,” Clogg said. Doing so then would have preserved interior operations at the expense of ones here, he said. “We felt that we had an obligation to the peopie that were participating in the Kalum LRMP to allow that process, to proceed and to abide by the recom- mendations of that LRMP,” Clogg said. “Our decision to do that resulted in a very signif- icant market campaipn against our company over the past year,” he said, adding that damaged the company’s reputation and was very time-consuming for staff. q Reduce the health risks associated wich excess weight. Live better and longer ... lighter. ‘ IT ALL BEGINS .. WITH WATER! it is a critical component of human life! 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