Az - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 26, 1994 - Issue talked about for years Clash tied to land claims ‘ LAST WEEK’S blockade by the -Gitksan Eagle clan of a Skeena ' Cellulose road building crew con- ‘ tinues a stand off between the two stretching back to the late 1980s. The issue then — as now — is the Eagle clan’s claim to land which Skeena Cellulose wants to log. In 1988, an attempt to log in the Big Oliver Creek area off of Hwyi6 ran into trouble and a piece of machincry was taken, That resulted in charges first being laid and then dropped against one membér of the Eagle clan. The situation became more tense after Skeena Cellulose con- structed a one-lane bridge across the Skeena River to connect Hwy16 with the north side of the river, It’s called the West Skeena area by Skeena Cellulose but it’s also the western boundary of the terri- tory claimed by the Gitksan as a whole and the Eagle clan specifi- cally. Skeena Cellulose built a log- ging road to the boundary but stopped short of entering the land claimed by the Eagles pending some sort of joint use agreement. Those talks have been iaking place on and off for the past three years with no final or interim agreement yct in sight, Eagle clan spokesman Aut Loring said it doesn’t necessarily oppose logging but does want to make sure it’s done right. ; “You have to look at the Skeena West area as a piece of land that’s sustainable with proper management,” he said. The Eagle clan stopped the road work last week after it got letter from the forest service saying it had granted Skeena Cellulose a permit, Loring said that came aS a sur- prise because he was told in the summer there would be more talks on @ proposal made by the Eagles. ‘The letter was dated Sept. 26 and I got it Oct. 10. By that time this damn road had already slarted,”’ he said. Loring, who was featured in a movie documentary about block- Creek work results in tine A LAKELSE LAKE property owner was fined $7,500 last weck for destriction of fish habitat. George Munson pleaded guilty to the charge Oct, 18 and was also ordered to pay an estimated $27,000 for habitat restoration. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans charged Munson in 1993 after he rerouted 150 feet of Morgan Brook around the site where he was about to build a house, The brook is spring-fed and is important rearing ground for ju- venile coho and spawning ground for trout, said DFO habitat tech- nician Scott Trent. Fish trapped in the original Streambed when the water was diverted probably died, But Trent said it takes streams a long lime to develop stable banks and the plants, plankton and in- sccis that support fish, The restoration work will be aimed at putting gravel into the new section of the brook, helping reestablish streatmside vegctalion, and attempting to recreate some of ihe. riffles and pools that had existed. The work will be supervised by fisheries officers. The court also ordered that 90 per cent of the fine — or $6,750 — be directed to the Terrace Sal- monid Enhancement Society, Any work in or around a stream requires prior approval from the Department of Fisherics and Oceans and from the provincial environment ministry, said Trent. _ FLU ALERT... Don’t delay - get your fiu shot today! THE + LUNG ASSOCIATION . . _ArtLoring ades in the Hazeltons and who two weeks ago confronted mushroom pickers on the Skeena River, said he has the authority of the Gitksan chiefs backing him. Skeena Cellulose official Ray Zimmerman said the company applied for and was granted the road permit after it met ail of the required conditions of the forest service, The rcad will lead to the Fiddler Creek-Bonser Lake area from which Skeena Cellulose wants to cut trees from an average 100 hectares over a five-year period, That 100ha represents about four per cent of the areca Skeena Cellulose logs each year, said Zimmerman. __ While it does not sound like a lot, Zimmerman said it’s becom- ing crucial to the company’s mill supply here. ‘*What's happening is that com-— panies traditionally go where the logging is easier and that's been the valley bottoms. But now we have to go to more and more dif- ficult areas all the time,’’ he said, With the move on to more dif- ficult terrain, more and more of a company’s wood supply is stock- piled in the summer when condi- Mon. and Thurs. Tues. and Wed., Friday 200-4619 Park Avenue, V8G 1V5 WE’VE MOVED! 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