Gold rush over? Proposed pine mushroom regs have sparked debate among local : pickers. /NEWS AS 7 | Fond farewell Champions! The library has lost one of its younger patrons’ favourites. /COMMUNITY BL 7 Terrace's Midgets shine on the diamond to take the provincial title. /SPORTS C1 WEDNESDAY. JULY 13, 1994 Tree harvest wi .Dave Nicholson, used the criteria By MALCOLM BAXTER. WHICHEVER WAY you cul il, ihe annual tree harvest in’ the Kalum South will have lo be reduced. That is the clear message: ina’ timber supply’ analysis. released . last week by the Forest Service..: At the moment ‘the arinual al- lowable cut (AAC) in the Kalum South, excluding. Skeena «Cel- lulose’s and Skeena: Sawmills’ tree farm licences, ds. 480,000 . cum. The report. sols. the long. term sustainable harvest at 400, 000 cum. annually. That’s the amounl of wood the teport predicis can be cut without Seiners target steelhead UP TO FIVE seiners will be deliberately targetting this year’s summer sleclhead run as it makes it way foward the Skeena River. But although they will originate from the commercial. flect, these boals will be operaling under the federal fisheries .. department (DFO) flag. . And as a result, says provincial fisheries © depariment:. official Mark Beere,.a lot more should be known about those species by summer’s end, vs The idea is to allach radio trans~ milters — they cost'$300 each — io as many as 350 steelhead, al- lowing fishery officials. to. track their progress “upriver: cand find out which spawning grounds they head for. That’s been done in the past but Beere anticipated results: would be betler this lime because of the way the fish were’ being collecied by the boats. He explained the nets would be brought. alongside ‘the boat and dip nets used to pick out tthe sleel- head. In the past, the: “transmitters were allached to Fish which had been hauled aboard. commercial vessels with the rest of the catch. On gilinetiers, it. had been found 40 per cent of tie sleelhead died in the process of capture from ei- ther stress or gill damage. Of those radio: tagged, only about 20 per cent-made it to the spawning grounds. ° Previous tests ~ with. the dip method had shown more than three limes as many | lish survived lo spawn, , He said this. test was almos| identical to one carried out on the Nass over thal past couple of years, thal one having targeted chinook. _ Assuming thal “survival figure can be altained: again, Becre pointed oul the fisherles depart- ments will have a lol more in- formation to work:on.:: =.” Tracking the’ lagged Gish will show which tributaries they are . returning io and the Uming of var- ious runs, Based on the munber ” ‘of transmitier-equipped fish .réach- ing the spawning ground, it.will - also be possible to: ‘get a: feel?’ for the total: mimbers’ of fish returning to various streams; *: With a river system as large and as dirly as: the Skeena, Beere said radio iransmilters’ were. the. most - effective way. of gathering, this kind of information... ; In the meantinic, this month has once again seen cateland-telenst- only _ restrictions. - placed ~ Skcena steelhead, running ihe tisk of a ‘fall down’? or wood shortage sometime in the future, I’s based on current forestry’ methods and policies, estimates of the amount of wood ‘out there now and: projections. of how -quickly second growth will be | available for cutting. ‘To gel lo that lower culting “level, the analysis: suggests the AAC will have lo be reduced by 3.3 per cent immediately, by a further 10 per cent over the next decade followed by another six per. ‘cent, reduction over the * decade’ after that. -That’s called the ‘‘base case”? explained local forester and, culling should not have to be reduced by more than 10 per cent in any one decade. The analysis, however, also points. out the repercussions of trying fo maintain the current rale of. cut as long as possible: slash- ing the AAC by one Sixth 10 years from now. And if the current AAC was maintained for the next 20 years, Nicholson noted, there would be a shortage of harvestable trees “130-150 years from now. The analysis says that shortfall could be in excess of 100,000 cu.m. annually, or more than a quarter the long term target. s Local Olympians THESE THREE athletes will represent Team B.C. in Hallfax at the 1994 Special Olympics that begin taday, In their Team B.C. uniforms, smiling with the pride of true Olympians, are Terrace swimmers Arlene Lindley and Silas Clayton (both standing) and Hazelton runner Solomon Angus. See pages Ci and C2 for more detalls on these athletes. Comprehensive though the analysis is, local Forest Service staff aré concermed that its as- sumptions in two critical areas are wide of the mark.: The first is the estimate of the volume of standing timber out there right now. Nicholson said district staff feel the figure is too high, that there is less wood currently available than the analysis assumes. He poinied to the results of 50 timber cruises recently carried out in the Kalum South, Those came up with an average volume of wood of 467 cu.m per hectare, 18 per cent lower than the figure used in the analysis. B.C. DOCTORS have been ad- vised to encourage all pregnant women to have HIV tests, said lo- . cal medical health officer Dr. Dayid Bowering, The advice comes from provin- cial health officers Dr. John Mil- _lerand:Dr, David Patrick of the . B. C. Contre for Disease Control.» ” A recenlly published ‘American. study. showed that’. when the n . AIDS drug AZT. (Zidovudine) is... 2 given. to HIV-positive “women during pregnancy, the risk of her infant being born infected decreases6 from 25 per cent to eight per cent, Without this treaiment, said Dr. Bowering, there are six babies born HIV-positive in B.C. every . year. IE - these women were treated with AZT in the second trimester ° - “of pregnancy, he said, thé number of: “HIV-positive . babies. born . ue could be reduced to two." HIV test recommended “Tn human lerms, that may not seem like a large number,’’ added Dr. Bowering, ‘But we have. no reason to think the number of women with HIV will decrease.”? ‘According to the B.C; Contre’ for Disease Control, cal every - i 10,000 pregnant women|in B.C. are infected with the HI “virus - and many of these wortien are un: “aware - thet. _ they. hav been i fecled. “ And, if those cruise results are accurate, even more drastic and immediate reductions in the AAC will have to made and maintained for the next 100 years, The analysis. suggests two alternatives: * an immediate 10 per cent reduction in the AAC followed by further cuts of 10 per cent per decade until it reaches 315,000 cum, or 35 per cent below today’s level. It could eventually be increased to the base case har- vest level 90 years from now. * an immediate 28 per cent reduction in the AAC, maintained for 100 years, then rising to the base case level. 750 PLUS 5¢ ast | VOL. 7 NO, 13 _ noted silvicullural staff However, Nicholson cautions, those cruises were carricd outin stands that were about to be logged. They were not, iherefore, a rep- Tesentative sample of the different forest types found in the Kalum South. ; That said, the results were ‘still enough to prompt district staff to question that part of the analysis. On the other side of the cain, district manager Brian Downie *"feel strongly’’ that second growth projections underestimate the Cont’d on page A2 UNBC unveils - NW course plan THE UNIVERSITY of Northern B.c. will begin Full operations this fall with five instructors in . the northwest. Four of them will bé bated In Terrace and the new university will offer five third- and fourth- year courses here this fall in English, First Nations studies, ge- ography and psychology. A joint college-universily list of courses available in the northwest was released at a public meeting last Thursday. “There are enough courses for a student to do a degree full- time,'’ said UNBC regional coor- dinator Margatet Anderson. Courses in Nisga’a Language and Nisga’a Culture will also be offered in the Nass Valley. Terrace University Access Council representative Frank Hamilton called the announce- ment a ‘‘big step.”’ “We now have to produce the students,’ Hamilton said. ‘These people have put their money oul here. Now we have to change the ethos that is out there in the northwest on post-secondary edu- cation.” Anderson said. her latest in- formation was that UNBC has ad- mitted nine students from Ter- face, and 23 from Prince Rupert. “The government doesn't really have a good idea how much it costs to run a univer- sity in the north.” “We need to increase the num- - ber of applicants here,’’ she said, Anderson said UNBC will give prospective students more lime to apply because of the delay in releasing the course list. “The university is committed to a presence In the northwest,” Anderson added, ‘We will not say ‘Oh, damn the northwest’ if enrolments are slow.’” UNBEC president Geoffrey Wel- ler sald minimum enralment re- quirements will be put in place i in future years.” '*For the first two or three years we won't be paying the same al- tention to. numbers as we will after,” Weller said. ‘‘It's obvious in a region with a new university where there has never been a uni- versity before, that you have to ‘do this for a while.” © But he noted that it’s uncertain exactly how much time -Victorld - ~ will. give: UNBC bofore ending the specla! treatment. ~ Our budget this year: is really. ‘Ught,” Weller said, “The govern : Dr. Margaret Anderson mnt doesn’t really have a good idea how much it costs 1o mn a university in the north.”’ Anderson said the budget restraint forced UNBC to reduce the size of the faculty from a pro- posed 150 instructors to 127. But none of the reductions will affect the northwest region, she said. Weller said the joint course list significs better cooperation be- tween the college and university. “We've had some ups. and downs,’? he sald. “But we're reaching a level where coopera- lion is starting to come along quite smoothly."" - - Weller sald the initial worry in the communities was that UNBC instructors would draw enrolment oul of. college courses. and threaten {he viability of college operations. . ."T think il’s going to be pretty clear as the numbers come in that _ we're not doing that,’” he said. Also in the northwest will be a maritime. studies institute in Prince Rupert. and an applied technology Institute in Kitimat - In the winter term, UNBC will offer more here —- two English courses, 4 Fist Nations: studies course, three geography courses, and three psychology courses, Also offered here will be a graduate studics community health program COUTSE In epidemiology. Two of the psychology courses - in the’ winter will be offered by distance education, The university plans to have a. series of courses originating from Terrace, Prince George, and - - Quesne! that will be avallable td; - students at all ‘three : of those -caripuses video. Pe ‘Intera thiowgh