A16- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 6, 2000

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Fate of some areas unknown

In the end they man-

aged to limit new protec-
‘ted areas under the plan to

less than 0.3 per cent of
the Kalum jand base.

Mulvey said earlier pro-
vincial government deci-
sions to add large new
parks limited how much
more park land the table
could add.

The 1995 preservation
of the Kitlope plus the
creation of the Nisga’a
Memorial Lava Bed Park
pushed the amount of pro-
tected land in the region to
near 16 per cent.

And Mulvey said the
subsequent upgrade of the
Gitnadoix from a recrea-
tion area — which still al-
lowed prospecting — to a
fully protected provincial
park — pushed the total to
mere than 18 per cent.

He noted that’s already
well above the province’s
goal of protecting an aver-
age 12 per cent of the B.C.
land base.

“T wanted to be flexible
but I was constrained as to
how far I could go,” Mul-
vey said. “ft made it more

difficult to create other

THE 'GILTOYEES watershed along “the Douglas Channel, southwest of Kitimat,
is one of two areas members of the land and resource plan project couldn't
agree upon in terms of —_ The provincial cabinet will now decide.

parks in the Terrace area.’

Mulvey said vrotecied
areas proposed but not
agreed to in the plan could
have pushed the region’s
total to as much as 23 per
cent protected.

“They were looking at
vast amounts of areas for

protection,” he said. “I
took a strong stand at that
point.”

That, he said, would
have been a significant
loss of land and opportun-
ily for future mineral pro-
specting and oil and gas
exploration.

The Miligit, in particu-
lar, he said is an area of
extreme importance to
prospectors.

“It's smack dab in the
middle of one of the most
highly mineralized areas
in the region,” Mulvey
said.

Grizzlies key part of land plan

IF MINERS and loggers have made major concessions
to conclude a land-use plan, so have environmentalists
and biologists.

Bear biologists like Tony Hamilton whittled away at
early proposals to find ways to ease the effects of rules
to protect grizzly bears on the forest industry.

The end resuit, he said, isn’t perfect but goes a long
way to protect critical grizzly habitat and the bears’ long
term supply of forage.

“We didn’t achieve everything we wanted to achieve
but we went through the process and came out with a
supportable consensus,” Hamilton said. A key part of the
plan is the development of the Khutzeymateen Grizzly
Bear Management Area, he added,

In an important concession by B.C. Wildlife Federa-
tion members, the area creates a 400,000-hectare zone
northwest of Kalum Lake where grizzly bear hunting will
be completely banned.

In all, Hamilton suggests the package in total should
halt a suspected slide in grizzly bear populations in the
region and eventually rebuild stocks to some degree.

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Best estimates now peg the number of grizzlies in the
area at 650 — plus or minus 200,

“Eventually we could achieve between 800 and 1,000
bears,” Hamilton said,

That's a little less than the long-range population fig-
ure he’d pushed for earlier.

Plans to restore damaged habitat in the region will
also help rebuild other wildlife stocks, said environment
ministry habitat biologist Len Vanderstar.

Environmentalists also gave ground on key areas such
as a decades-long relaxation of biodiversity rules called
for in the plan.

The rules would help maintain as wide a diversity of
different species in the region as possible.

But conservationist Renee Mikaloff said the conces-
sion was necessary because taking a hard line would
have forced sawmills ta close in the area.

“The implementation of the biodiversity guidelines
would have a huge effect on the annual allowable cut,”

she said, “It would interrupt the flow of timber to the

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