by the Sierra Club that too ver,” he says, adding three gers don’t want to see trees _ tices. . ‘D ‘Max Min Total D* Max Min _ - Totai
' much wood was left behind - different forestry ministry. laying in the forest. “There are more firms in- A. Temp Temp Precip|:} A Temp: Temp Precip
*. in clear cuts near Terrace. ‘workers went out to the Wil- “We've tried everything B.C. that have logging cer- Y : °C °C mm : Y © °C mm .
Renee Mikaloff, a land. liams Creek site in 2003 ... there is no value for tification - environmental . a oe -
. use specialist for the Sierra and found that nothing was hemlock,” he said. “Log- certification - than any other — 2 8.4 “1.5 0.0/3} 25 9141 .12 2.0
' Club and a registered forest amiss. gers don’t want to leave any jurisdiction,” Harris says. 2% 8.8 -0.7 0.0 || 26 9.0 13 0.0~
technician, says the equiva- Mikaloff, who lives in wood behind, they’ want ev- Coming to Terrace in an 27 - 6.9 0.0 1.8 27 «#96 ~=«-1.7 0.0
lent of 63 logging trucks Terrace, says leaving pulp _ ery stick of it.” attempi‘to sell the image of © ry, +» 0.0 28 «5.7 -0.1 1.6
full of merchantable timber logs behind is an example S88 large forest companies beat- 28 12.7 oan , . . .
‘was left'on the ground in. ,,of how the raw log exports That same meeting saw ing up on the environment OS 5.8 -0.3 4.6 3 1 7.8 “2.7 0.0
‘two areas harvested by New _ look “on the ground”. Andrew .Gage, an environ- doesn’t fly in Terrace, Har- forecaster ate”. | 2 6.3 29 . 7.4 |:] 2 5.2 -1.7— T
Skeena Forest Products and . . She argues it’s not worth-. mental lawyer for the West ris said. _ iaeenc ease 3. 9.0 2.5 1.2] 3 2.8 0.5 6.2
one by Kitwanga Lumber while to log an area that is Coast Environmental Law “You know who the li- Oc rmewe mee oc eeraee ene pe SEN SSSET] —
- Company. 80 per cent low grade pulp Association taken to task for censees are inthe northwest? [8 i “Servin The Teriace
'. Those stands, one located wood just to harvest high his analysis of changes to They are the Kitsumkalum, N When WINTER MAINTENANCE ; : os
ATE : : : : eather conditions are appropriate, salt is 7
near Williams Creek about : grade logs. forestry-related legislation, the Kitselas, the Haisla, Lee : applied to the road surface to eliminate compact snow “(7
15 km away from Terrace’ Even if those high pulp acts and codes over the past Thomson ... Kitwanga Lum- : gar meting the snow a aoe eventually nein ha
and one located in the Bea- content logs — mostly hem- four years. ber ~ these are small com- — 8 slush, Motorists are advised to slow down to avoid 1
ver about 45 km from Ter- Jock—have little tono value,. | He says the change from munity .based businesses H hari ae ne pe plowed off one to two Construction, Terrace

A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Loggers, Sierra Club clash

over wood waste charges

By SARAH A. ris says he is incensed bythe but nothing could be further any logging activities or road
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AREA logging contractors “This is just classic Sierra contractor Lloyd Hull. Harris challenged the

and Skeena MLA Roger

-Harris deny claims made

race, were logged more than

two years ago.

“Nobody has been out
, there to check the. areas,”.
Mikaloff says, suggesting

the waste: left behind’ was

-- “over the allowable amount
“ permitted: by government

fo]

regulations and that no com-

_. ,pliance and enforcement of-
ficers had been to the sites to -

evaluate the waste.
But at.a March 2 meet-

“ing sponsored in part by the

Sierra Club, a group of local
logging contractors and gov-
ernment officials challenged
Mikaloff’s claims.
“This is inaccurate,”

forester for the BC Timber
Sales program in Terrace.

“What they left behind-was °
well within the allowable

limits.”

Campbell says an’assess- _

ment was done by compli-

- ance and enforcement offi- __,
cers and no violations were .
. tecorded. |

7

‘The. allowable limit. ‘in-
that area is 20‘cubic metres

per hectare of wood har-
~ vested.

“The first block was 72
hectares in size and her scal-

er went out and found 688 ©

cubic metres of waste,” says

: Campbell.-“If it was indeed
_ 72 hectares then you would
> be allowed 1 ,440 cubic me-

tres.”
_ Skeena MLA Roger Har-

” says .
_ Gail Campbell, a planning

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Club, classic carpet-baggers
coming - up ‘from Vancou-

they shouldn't have been left
there, she adds. *

“They should have taken
it all,” Mikaloff says.

Fred Seiler, a long time
logger’ turned eco-tourism
Operator, discovered wood
left. behind: when, he vis-
ited the Williams Creek site
more than two years ago.

While not opposed to—

logging in general, Seiler
said he is concerned about
environmental damage.

And he wonders why ar-
eas are being logged if not
all of the wood can be sold.

' “All T care about is mak-
ing sure we are doing the
right thing for our ecosys-
‘tems and if that means wait-
ing until the pulp market is
high then maybe that’s what

we should do,” he says.
He’s not affiliated with
the Sierra Club, though his
photos of the cut blocks were

,used at the'presentation. -
* “If we are leaving all our

- 2-trees behind just to get to the
cream, is it worth. the envi- .

ronmental damage?”
Local logging contractors

say they can’t wait four or

five years to see if pulp pric-
-@§ go up and the only reason
there are raw log exports
right now is because ‘that’s
_the only market out there.
“You..come..in here and
make it sound like we are
a bunch of hillbillies rap-
ing and pillaging the forest

_ Lee Thomson of Timber
Baron Contracting said log-

_the Forest Practices Code to

the new Forest and Range
Practices Act has. made
environmental ~ legislation
changes too vague for the
public to comment on.

Cuts to compliance and’
enforcement officers mean -

fewer people are on the

» ground making sure regu-

lations are being followed,
Gage said. © .

But when he told the
group the new act essential-

_ly allows logging companies _

to go out and log where they
want, when they want with
little of their plans ,made

known to,the government, —
he was met with a torrent of
“opposition. :

“You're trying to say
right now that when some-
body goes logging the min-
istry of forests will have no
idea where they’re going?’
challenged Hull.

Other contractors
hemently denied :that’s the

way business is done in the

northwest. “I think the last

‘time I checked ‘there are.
14 people who review our -

plans,” Thomson says.
‘That
nothing ‘but provide misin-

. formation to the public, says

Gail Campbell.
“Licensees are required
by law to have a cutting per-
mit before they can log and
they are also required to no-
tify the government prior to

ve--

suggestion. does

claim that: new legislation
leads to irresponsible prac-

that work local, employ lo-
cal,” Harris says. “They get
up in the morning and they

want to do a good job in’:

their home.”

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