“Mushroom c camps ieft a mess

Some pickers. wore ‘pigs’ | |

TERRACE — Mushroom pick-
ers left some norlhwest wilder-
ness areas Jooking like garbage

dumps.
Forest service employees who
- discovered the remains of. three
“mushroom. picking ‘camps say
they: had-lo spend -public-moncy
cleaning.up a. mess left by a com-
mercial énterprise.
“Jt came as a shock to us that
there’ are -pigs like this in the
: world,’’» said Brian Grunewald,
field operations supervisor for the
Kispiox Forest District.

‘His two-man crew spent three
days in-carly November cleaning
up those three campsites — one

‘. -12km west of Cranberry Junction,

one ¢ along. the Cranberry River

and one at the junction of the old
Nass Road and Hwy37.
“We never did get it all cleaned

up because the snow moved in,’? |

Grunewald said. ‘‘They took a
few truckloads to the dump and
some of the stuff they burned on
site.” -
Photos of the sites "showed
emply plastic fuel. cans, tires,
bedframes, furniture and piles of
liter left behind by mushroom

pickers: and buyers who invaded .

the area inthe fall,
| The forests ministry is working
with the environment ministry to
develop a policy for dealing with
the mushroom camps next year,
he said.

Many camps were set up last

year, he added,

‘They were ‘just Ilke ite

towns — just like the gold rush
days.”

As disturbing as the sight of the

trashy camps are, what hasn't yet
been found could be worse.

- This -is-what’s happening in the ~° <
visible. areas,’’ Grunewald noted. -

““We don’t know what's going on
in more remote areas.”

“*We haven't formulated any
plan about how: we're going to

- deal with this next year,” he said.
“But we're definitely going to do

something about it.’’

Whether it will take public rela-
tions and education work with the
pickers, enforcing regulations, or
other measures remains to be

‘temational.
~ verlised profits of up to $1,000 a
day and charged people a $1,000
’ camp fee up. front to come to the

seen.

"I will say this! We don’t want -

to see this happen again. We will

let our presence be known.”
‘One of the biggest camps in the

atea was the one located 12km |

west of Cranberry Junction.

It... was. operated... by a
Vancouver-based company called
Natural Excellence Industries In-
“The company ad-

camp and pick,

But the mushroom crop was
poor and many pickers ended up
going home broke.

RCMP investigated complaints
about the company but decided
not to pursue fraud charges.

Harrison stag award reduced

TERRACE —— An appeal court
has: reduced by $365,000 the
damages _ awarded’to Brad Har-

rison" for. Anjuries he received on |

; his stag night four years ago,
The: 32-year-old Terrace man
sued his former friends after the
“- aceident and was awarded $1.64
“million...

He had. been shackled with a

** ball ‘and chain on the night of his

Slag party — April 2, 1988.
Harrison left the party at. the
“Skeena’ Hotel carly and, still
- shackled, tried to make his way
«home. *

".- His friends discovered he was
gone: and caught up with bim at
the Salvation Army thrift store on

~ -Lakelse Ave,

Jn the ensuing struggle, Har-
rison fell through the store’s plate
_ glass window, slicing arteries,

nerves’ and: muscle tissue in both
arms,

He was Jefi crippled and said he
“lost both: his job and fiancee as a
result.

His former friends appealed the
judgment last year.

Last month the B.C. Court of
Appeal agreed Harrison had been
awarded too much for loss of fu-
ture income, and reduced that
‘portion -of the damages from
$990, 000 to $625,000, ~

The judges said that although
Harrison. can’t. work now, he
might have lost his mill job even
ifbe hadn’t been injured. -

“There is no question that there

was a real possibility that Mr.

Hartison might lose his employ- |

ment with Eurocan in the future,’”
said Justice Jo-Ann Prowse.

The court ruled the friends were |
liable. for his injuries and dis- |

missed the rest of the appeal, . |
“It cannot. be said that the
learned trial judge erred in con-
cluding that the injuries suffered
by Mr. Harrison were reasonably

forsceable to’ the appelants as—

they confronted Mr. Harrison,’
Prowse said.

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