The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 4, 1994 - DS NORTH COAST EQUIPMENT 5108 Keith Ave,, Terrace, B.C. ph. 635-1811 FAX 635-1633 TOLL rege 1.800, a 1611. Specializing In NEW & USED PARTS or Catepillar Equipmen Bearings Seals Gaskets Piston & Liner Kits Batteries Hydraulic Hose & Fittings Under Carriage (most equipment) _ Bucket Teeth Dozer Cutting Edges Corner Bits Gears Pins Radiators quality part Low 0 prices EXCHANGE Engines Starters Alternators Hydraulic Pumps Hydraulic Motors Cylinders Brake Shoes Transmissions Oil Coolers . CHRISTMAS TREE grower Don Coburn’s decorating enthusiasm may be a bit premature but his Christmas tree farm is rapidly taking shape. He’s planted a vari- ety of species after finding out that people have many Christmas different tree tastes. When the first trees reach market stage, Coburn plans on selling approximately 3,500 a year. CRIS LEYKAUF PHOTO every day By CRIS LEYKAUF HO HO HO! Merry Christmas! It might be a litle carly to start 7 lhinking about the festive season, “but tree farmer Don Cobum is in - the spirit all year Long. - Coburn’ owns Terrace’s first "Christmas tree farm, It will be a “few years before his crop is tall enough to stack presents beneath, but Coburn is keeping plenty busy in the meantime. Coburn: started the tree farm "“(hree years ago, after he logged “land he had purchased as an in- vestment. Rather than leave the - land bare, Coburn decided to “plant Christmas imes, (to start ‘saving money for his four sons’ educations. , After planting. his first crop, © —-Cobum did a business plan and «discovered the market for Christ- '. “mas trees in Terrace, Kitimat and --Prince Rupert was three or four ~ -times what he anticipated for the “area. ’* Approximately 4,500 households buy (Christmas trees), and :5,500 cut their own,'’ says Coburn. ‘So there’s quite a market out there,’”’ ‘Currently Coburn has 12 acres under cultivalion on his property ‘near the airport. He hopes lo clear another five or six acres this sum- of the year mer, to be planted next spring, Douglas Fir and Scotch Pine are the primary species Cobum planis. He has also siarted small crops of Colarado blue spruce, white pine, ponderosa pine and grand fir, since people have pretty diverse tastes in Christmas trees. Short, tall, or bushy trees, even skinny little Charlie Brown trets...they’re all in demand. The Coburn family prefers a balsam fir or black spruce from which to hang their omaments. Though Cobum started the tree farm as a hobby, he finds himself working more and more each” year at the farm. Now that his oldest trees are entering their third growing season (making them five years old), he is spend- ing more time [erlilizing and pruning them. Coburn plans to sell approxi- mately 3500 trees a year, taking info account that approximately half of each year’s crop will be unsuitable to sell. Some people can hardly sland the suspense of waiting for Christmas day, but Christmas tree farmers have to be patient. It will be at least four years before Coburn’s trees will be large enough to make someone’s Christmas dreams come true. orthland ommunications LTD. Working With People | _to Keep Terrace Strong B. C. 'S #1 Industry - FORESTRY 4-5002 Pohle f]s38-0261 _ hard work and dedicatior\ will make this all possible: Our planned activities for 1994 are: - plant 1,100,000 seedlings of different species on 1,950 hectares ee oe - Harvest 1,000,000 cubic metres of logs from 2,300 hectares ° - construct 175 km of road including 22 new or replacement bridges - a - survey 10,000 hectares of second growth forest to monitor forest health - manually tend 1,000 hectares of immature forest stands oS - engineer 3,000 hectares of forest land and 200 km of roads in preparation for future cs years activities a Everyone at Skeena Cellulose wishes to thank the following local contractors whose i A &D Trucking Ltd. A&V Excavating ~ Ivor Johnson Contracting .Jasak Logging Ltd. Allen Contracting "JR Contracting All West Trading Co. Ltd. - Me ~ Jock’s Excavating Ltd. Backwoods Silviculture Ltd. ~ Kadif's Wana’am Gan ‘Kitimat Booming Contractors -K'shian Construction Ltd. L& J Logging Ltd. BMT Contracting Bro Enterprises Ltd. Borden Lake Contracting Ltd. Gedar River Timber (1971) Co. Ltd. ~ -Lakalzap Band Council Clear Creek Contracting Ltd. | oe ‘Long's Logging Inc. Copper River Contracting Ltd. ‘-- Mactrak Road Building --Main Logging Ltd. “Magnum Road Builders Inc. re oa ~McEthanney Engineering Services Lid. Be “Mercer Logging Ltd. . ~-Nason Contracting Supervision - Nass Valley Grading Northwest Loggers Association =. | ’ Pacific Regeneration Technologies Inc. Py Martian Contracting Cypress Forest Consultants Ltd. Dasque Contracting Ltd. Dave Lavoie Contracting Ltd. . Don Hull & Sons Contracting Ltd. _ Duane Contracting Ltd. E.J, Kerby & Sons Ltd. Earl Ellis contracting Ed Dobler Contracting Ltd. Far-Ko Contracting Ltd. Poe Formula Contractors Ltd. oR & M Contracting Gitwinksihikw Development Corp. oe es RJA Forestry Ltd. Godet Contracting Ltd. SS. . Shearwater Towing Ventures Gwin Hamook Enterprises Ltd. TT &C Contracting Ltd. . GTG Contracting -- Vic Froese Trucking Ltd. ' H.J. Wall Contracting Ltd. oo C, Warner Herb Yeh! Marine Ltd. ~G, Watmough Hire A Logger Agency | ~ Western Brushing & Ditching Ltd: Hirsch Creek Falling Ltd. _Weibe Contracting Ltd. - Houlden Logging Lid. ‘Woadima Forestry Services Ltd. Hovland Contracting Ltd. _ Woodmere Nursery