Calting valleys. through the

sopping rainforest are Exstéw,.

Kalum,.-.Lakelse, Copper,
Zymacord,- ~Green, Shames,
Kleanza,’ Fiddler, Insect and
Dasque. Rurining through ° -the

interior wilderness are Babine,.

Bulkley, ’- ‘Morice, Sustut,

Kispiox,’ Telkwa. “Spilling into”

‘tide are: Scotia, Green, Kwinit-
8a, Ecstall. :

Wonderful’ rivers all —.
highways td salmon; home to.

trout, corridors. for wolf; bear.

. and moose, But what - else. do.

they have in common? They
have all been‘given over to the
forest industry, ;

This, 1 suppose, was
unavoidatler. the’ natural
migratory. paths of fish and
game are. also. the: easiest,
cheapest and most remunerative
routes: for. the:

alchemists who ‘tur Jogs: into’
jobs and profit. The bottom of
the land made

a river valley —

r SPORTSCOPE
Kitimat
goalie

back in net

‘NEW YORK Islanders goalie
‘Mark Fitzpatrick is back on
his skates again.

The 22-year-old Kitimat
‘player has been battling back
-from a debilitating disease
‘called EMS. .

After more than four mon-
ths of therapy at home in
Kitimat, he’s back on the ice
‘again, “backstopping. the

pishintiere the NHL" chib's']
farm team.

' He says he's just glad to be
‘playing again, and that being
called back up ‘to the NHL
‘towards the end of the season
‘would be '‘a bonus.””

He allowed five goals ina

tie-game performance his
‘first hight"back, but on his
‘second outing held the op-
‘position to two, displaying
‘the skill that made him New
‘York’s starting goalie. -
' Although he feels healthy
now, he could suffer a recur-
‘rence of the incurable disease
at-any time.’ -

Meanwhile, his lawyer is
suing the makers of an amino’
acid diet supplement’ Fitz-
patrick took that has-been
linked-to’ EMS. The
$180-million lawsuit is
Against the Japanese
manufacturers of
'L-Tryptophan,

| Winter Games.

“picked up iwo gold,. four
‘silver. and ‘three’ bronze
: Medals at the weekend's B.C..

“and North Cowichan.

“tion saw Telkwa’s Matthew.
: Georgiou’ collect the silver in.
juvenile boys. free technique. .
‘Pawn, Bergen, of Burns Lake |
“picked ‘up’ the: bronze in the
. juvenile: girls event...)
Cormac , ‘Hikisch,

“alpine Skicourse,. 3. 000°
‘In wrestling, Fraser: Lake’ 5
»Fentiando- Ossi" took gold: in
“the 56kg combined ‘score,
with Corey Leslie of Fraser
Lake, taking the'silver in the.
" 2 tegory. ~
f.: Fraser: Lake,

“combined: “score “weightlife
trig, Telkwa's: Charles Pring
eat thé. silver. -in the

Medals from |

NORTHWESTERNERS

industrial - -

AHL's. Capitol; District, Pe a

"Winter. Games in’ Duncan |

i Cross-country: skiing ac- |: -

“Smithers: ‘won gold for zone 7 q.
on. thet nien's: Biant: ‘slalom. :

Sean}:

Tich, and fertile by the millenial

processes of river and runoff —

is, inthe end, a magnet to all,

Think of a river valley as an
infinitely complex organism.
Each important event — a fire

‘raging down. part of its’ cor-,
. Tidor,-an avalanche, an extraor-
. dinarily heavy flood — changes

‘the way it functions. Asa result

‘some. creatures lose, some gain.

When the changes are massive,
unrelenting: and sudden, the
whole organism undergoes a

‘ transformation,
Certain truths: become evi- -
dent: a river logged once. will,
never grow wood as well'and of.
as high a quality again; a logged.
_Tiver “valley Will never look as: -

good as it did formerly, nor ;

‘ probably, will it be as friendly

to fish and wildlife. .

This does not mean.the valley.
devoted to logging will be
devoid of. fish and. wildlife

values, just that: they: will, in

7 by Rob Brown

The Skeena.
Angler

some measure, be diminished.
For this reason we in the nor-
thwest branch of the Steelhead
Society of B.C, proposed’-to .
cepresentatives of the ministries
‘of forests and. parks ‘that: the:
river valleys called Exchamsiks,

Khyex and -Khasiks

PORTS NE

be.
designated wilderness - and set
. aside forever.

From the perspective of a -
“migratory grizzly bear who does
‘Not appreciate man’s ‘fondness.
for boundaries, the Khutzeyma-.‘
“teen and the Exchamsiks miay as
well be. one, We thought we

would take the circuit of the
great bears into consideration
and ask that the former valley
beleft intact toons?

With -the | exception of the

_Khutzeymateén, the valleys we

pleaded . for. have minimal

_ timber values, but each, like the

Gitnadoix, : contains delicate,
Tare ecosystems which play out
under stunning vistas, They

_ have lessons to teach us, these
~ secluded: valleys, ‘lessons which

will make’us better stewards of
the valleys: we work.
‘They are endangered species,

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 27, 1991 ~ Fae a5

Four valleys to save from t 1e saw

these narrow rock-walled cor-
. tidors where goats move up and

down ‘impossibly steep. faces,
where moose move -furtively.

- along the valley: floor browsing

willow and osier, where the sun
is not able to burn away the re--
mains of the winter snows until
May,’

Included in our pitch to

-* forester and ranger was an argu-

ment on behalf of an old friend
— the Copper River. *
Over half of the Copper ‘has:
been logged and all of the rest
will be if” nothing i is done soon.

The Copper is a rare breed. It is-

one. Of the five’ rivers on the
planet: whose wilderness and
steelhead: ‘angling values give it
Class One status.

Wild summer steelhead are
vanishing along with the rugg-
ed, pristine ‘habitat they need:
for survival. Logging the upper
end of any watershed. is.a good:

way to ruin it, ‘Examples of

‘JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

WS

TERRACE E STANDARD

‘ ret a

Tsimshians looked tough in the earl
results. next week, A week: earlier
Booth 62-47, and dispatching Kitimat twice — 72-40 and 64-60,

Basketball finals

KITIMAT Junior Rebel Peter Ly homes in on the Prince Rupert hoop as the team went on to an
‘Gasy victory aver the Booth’ Ravens in zone basketball playoff action here iast week, Skeena’s
y.action and battled their way to a spot in the finals. Complete
Skeena won the Kitimat Invitational tournament, defeating

TERRACE. _. The. seript’ for ”
~ uweekend . :
~‘showdown. ‘with. the: ‘Prince’
Rupert Rainmakers. reads‘ more’
like the. screenplay. for a Rocky
movie than ‘a ~ “basketball

Caledonia’s:

playoff.

Battered ° dnd beaten, ‘the :
underdogs. fight. back “against
the: odds: Pull.

fis ed
"won. a: bronze inthe S2kg | - victory

AE least!

‘squad's: ‘coach: wants to. see

and “demoralizing:

injuced or recovering from re-
cent injuries.

“The. listof ailments is long
Mike
Parker's re-sprained - ankle,

- Paul’ Manhas’ broken nose,

~ Brent..-Neeve’s knee, Steve
Dhansaw’s ankles, and Gary

4 Peden’s: knee,

But MacKay predicts even his

eee see injured: players: will be on the
t hat's. the plot that -

*. Cam: MacKay - x the' Cal : ‘hoop: Mauch. tape. and protective gear
‘AS th

court. this: time, . looping on as

ectssary.
os They ‘en like losing,” he

bine expecting

cakewalk
when they enter ‘the. Caledonia :

gymnasium. —

“Ill be interesting ‘think :

you'll see a Caledonia: . team
that’s ready to do battle? -

The injuries will. definitely be

a big factor, he says. **wW I
to win. the. first one. —< ‘the
basically. it, if we
to three games it'll

“. Skeena’ Broadcasters’

cnt

rivers badly compromis:
this “uneconomical:
sighted practice. ‘can*
from one™ “end” of - ‘North.
America’ 8 Pacific: coast: tothe
other. In setting aside the area .
around MacDonnell Lake for
widespread logging at the hands

‘ of small business, the Bulkley

Valley forest district intends the
same fate for the Copper. «

There is wood in less sensitive
areas. For that reason we’ sug: ..
Zested to the hosts of Parks °90
that the entire upper. watershed
of the Copper be set aside along
with an area extending from the
highly unstable Red Canyon
Creek to a small tributary, eight.
kilometres below it... :

Khasiks, Excham-
siks/Khutzeymateenm, | Khyex
and the Upper Copper: our pro-
posal to set them aside; to keep |
them intact,-is a modest: one
when viewed within the context
of T logging i in Skeena. ‘ :

Hendry near
Clan record

TERRACE — Michelle Hendry
has moved within 100 points of
the SFU Clan’s all-time career
scoring mark,

Terrace’s hoop sensation con-
tinues to rock the women’s col-
lege basketball world and with
2,260 career points at the end of
regular season play last week,
she’s poised for a drive at the

record ‘in “the playoffs: “now.

underway."

Gail Klaver -— who played
from 1973 to 1978 — holds the
Simon Fraser University record
of 2,357. Hendry, who keeps
SFU sports statisticians like
Gary Schreiber very busy, could
break that in this her third year.

“t's just phenomenal,’’
Schreiber says, ‘It’s really hard
to believe,”

What's just as hard to believe
is the Clan’s record this season:
16-0 in NAIA district one play
and 27-3 overall.

As usual, Hendry was top
scorer in district one this year
with 703 regular season district
points.

She's also 13th in scoring
among the NAIA's 350 colleges
and universities with her 24,2
point-per-game average. Her
field goal percentage — 68.0 —
is third in the league,

Stats like that are certain to
make her a contender again this

‘Station lays :

Michelle Hendry

year to be named to an All-
American team, as she was last
year.

If Hendry's average holds up
and SFU gets out of the district,
she should shatter Klaver's all-
time points mark in the
playoffs.

Semifinal action was under-
way earlier this week and SFU
was heavily favoured to make
the district one final, scheduled
for tomorrow night.

If they win there, it’s on to
the 32-team NAIA national’
championships Mar. 6-12, in
Jackson, Tennessee, :

‘off sportcaster

TERRACE — Local broadcast
Sports coverage has fallen into
question with the decision by
Skeena Broadcasters to lay oft
veteran Terrace sportscaster
Len Harrington.

© Harrington received his lay--

off notice earlier this month,

and will end his tenure in front. |
‘of CFTK's sports mike just:

three ‘months short of the
20-year mark. ‘
issued layoffs for Todd Bentley,
their Prince Rupert sports

‘reporter and Jean Carson, a. .
. Prince Rupert
Teporter.

radio news’

.” The station's union is attemp-

ting to block the layoffs, said

- Kathy Brooks, secretary for

- local’.827 of the National

“Association of Broadcast
¢. Employees and Technicians
: (NABET) a

She said Harrington received

7 “Four weeks notice and will likely

he, give-his last: sports. broadcast:

5 :SOMetime in’ carly, March.

Brooks‘ attacked the jayotts:
hich’ the company says are
_Tesult.

also

advertising revenues —- as
“bizarre’’. a
__ “It doesn't make sense for
the company to attempt to in-.

" crease ad revenues by cutting |

back coverage in Terrace and.
Rupert,’’ she said.

She rejected © company’
statements that the decision is a:

‘private business matter of no

concern to the | public. os
*' This is very important to the :-
local community,’? she said, “If :

-peaple want to listen to local |-

sports coverage ‘on the’ radio, :
they’re out of luck, ‘because.
there’s: only one. station in.
town,”? -

“We're ‘encouraging people ~
here concerned about the effec.
tive elimination of local Sports ©
coverage to speak Up," Brooks
added.”

Harrington has earned a solid
reputation over’ the” years.'not
just for his coverage buf also for -
his support and promotion. of
local youth sports, 22. =
' “He's an‘ old: gurmudgeon,” i
Brooks: adds, “but “he® Spot a.
heart ‘of gold, ‘s Incred,