Under ‘the plane the land- scape is frozen stiff. A band of brown smog is backlit by the oblique, rust-coloured rays of the winter sun. Above that the -sky is clean and blue. Strands of wraithlike mist hang over the mountains -and river valleys. From this height the rivers are ribbons of immobile ‘grey. -There‘is no wind. The sea looks ‘like a sheet of ice. ’ “In. the failing light the white. -clearcuts stand out in vivid con- trast to the blue.grey of the un-.. _. cut hillsides. ‘There is more ‘while than grey, more cut than tree, as valley after plundered -valley is framed by the wing, of | the ‘jet. For ‘the first time: I notice tonsured mountains that ‘would appear treed ia the eyes ‘of: anyone save for an air traveller or a bird, ~ I return to my newspaper and coincidentally read that Premier ‘Harcourt plans to tour the Prince of Wales around the _that global-warming is more’. fact than theory. He knows the global: greenhouse is built -of wilds of supernatural British Columbia. I wonder what their itinerary. will be. - - Apparently Prince Charles has the impression that the forest practices in B:C. are not much different from -those in - Brazil,. The prince, in contrast to. phoney environmentalists like George .Bush and Brian . Mulroney, is sensitive to the im- molation of planetary life -sup- port systems and is willing to do. something to save them. Charles appears to appreciate carbon, and that one hectare of forest land can’absorb as much as 3,000 tonnes of thé stuff, It “alarms him ‘that one acre of tropical rainforest disappears each second, while one acre of Canadian forest disappears every five seconds because of bugs, fire or logging. The Skeena Angler by Rob Brown have thumbed through Equinox Magazine and been shocked to find that Brazil has protected only a paltry 9.4 per cent of its forest — some 328,704 square kilometres — while Canada had _.§pared only 2.8 per cent of 85,318 kilometres squared of its boreal forest from saws or asphalt. Dts Mike will be quick to point out to his regal. guest that the Brazilians are building deserts since almost none of their rain- forest can be regenerated. He will, however, be hard pressed to convince the future king of England that Canada and B.C., Like ‘me, ‘Charles may well with their massive tracts of in- sufficiently restocked land, are in any position to feel proud. But your highness, Mike might say, people have got to work and the timber business is still the engine of the economy. But Charies, if he has done his homework, will point out that if jobs are the big concern, how is it that our good old corporate buddies MacBlo made 59.6 billion dollars in profits from 1987 to 1990 while eliminating a whopping 9,121 jobs in the last decade — jobs lost due te automation not the alienation of forest land. The prince, being a bright Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 4, 1992 — Page B3 Companies leave little to be proud of and informed fellow, may well ask how it is that places like California can generate more than five jobs for every 1,000 cubic metres of timber logged while our bountiful and former- ly heavily forested province can create only one job for the same amount of wood. The premier may want to let the Prince view the seven-part B.C, Forest Alliance-funded production hosted by Fanny Kiefer. — a glitzy series put together by a slick PR firm whose. former . clients .. include fascist juntas in Argentina, But, I suspect the prince will be able lo see through the feigned ob- jectivity of what amounts to a longer, more refined version of the notoriously unbelievable Forests Forever commercials. When Fanny cites the economic hardships which will befall cities like Quesnel if the status quo in timber harvesting is not main- tained, I’ii bet the prince will see that these cities will have to face this falldown anyway ifthe pre- sent regime continues with the difference that no enlightened practices will have been put into place and a huge chunk of the old growth will be liquidated. Mike, hopefully, will take Charles to some of the brutally overlogged watersheds in this province and then to a few of the river valleys that are still in their natural state. After that the premier would be wise to assure his gues: that . the .corporate agenda. of | li- quidating all our forests is no longer on in B.C. — that there will be meaningful structural changes in our forest industry which will result in an increase in research and development, that B.C. will respond to the global demand to preserve old growth and that B.C. will in- itiate sustainable harvesting practices and at the same time look to sustaining more jobs. Scoreboard MALCOLM BAXTER 638-7283 SPORTS NEWS TERRACE STANDARD — Page B4 TERRACE REMAX started out strong in their Saturday morning bantam match up against the Stewart Titans, with Charles Chief scoring unassisted on the breakaway to get Terrace on the “board first. The bantam house tournament game was a dogfight until the third period when the sTitans exploded with a flurry of goals to put the game away. ~ Deadly Port Ed. Dejong TERRACE — The inaugural Terrace Legion Dart Open turned into the Paul Dejong show as the pride of Port Edward's shooters swept the board. - Hard on the heels of his Friday night win in the mixed triples, Dejong beat out Prince Rupert's Noel-Noble for the men's singles before teaming up. with. Noble to add the men’s doubles to his- tally, -For hometown players, the. men’s events were 7 just a spectator sport when it came. to the final . tounds. “Jerry Root of Masset . and Kitimat’ s° Neil Melsaac filled the other semi-finalist berths in ~ the singles while the duo of Juergen Schiemann (Kitimat) and Stefano Maestrello (Prince Rupert) _ took second spot in the doubles. ° takes dart open It was a different story on the ladies’ side, however, with Annette Hiren beating out Kaye Munroe for the singles title and Anila Ratcliffe, also of Terrace, finishing in a tie for third. Kitimat’s Dianne Duchesne took the other third spot. Munroe got compensation in the doubles when ~ she teamed -up with -feliow °Terracite Marg Saulnier to capture. top spot al the expense of Kitimat’ s Annette Hall’and Phyl Foley. Losing serni-finalists: were. the-local Joyce Bradley- Noclle* Bulleid' combo. and Betty Schiemann (Kitimat) and: Clare Groot (Terrace). “Next up on the northwestern dart tour is the - six-event Kitimat Open. tournament, March 20-22, . ” : WvoLves TOPS IN ZONE Ken Pound sald an honourable mention also goes out to Brett Kluss for his strong season - with Thornhill. ; In junior girls actlon, Thor- nhill placed second at ihe ‘B’ girts zone championship in Kitimat, losing in the final to Nisga’a, , Thornhiil’s Erin Peacock was named to the tourney all- star team. TERRACE ~~ The Thornhill Timber Wolves junior boys basketball team won the ‘8’ boys zone championship for the second-straight year, Thornhill defeated Hazelton in the final of the double- knockout zone (ourney, plac- ing First out of five schools competing. Mike McAllister was a zone all-star team seleciion for the. Timber Wolves, Team coach Clan’s last chance Undefeated SFU guns for nat’! title TERRACE The Simon Fraser University Clan are in Jackson, Tenn., poised to begin their final drive for the NAIA national championship. Terrace’s Michelle Hendry will be front and centre for SFU when they walk onto the court for their championship opener. tonight against Pembroke State, of North Carolina. Pembroke is unranked, but has a strong 24-6 record. ‘And the Clan won't be cocky after . othe mnemory, of their.79-7¢-Jinsta «round elimination“last! the hands of the 30th-ranked -IUPU Indianapolis Metros. This is the final year together for Hendry and the other players whe make up the core of . the SFU team. They go through their warmups tonight with the knowledge that their next loss will be their last. The Clan qualified for the NAIA national championships last week with their 78-57 district 1 championship victory Thursday night over the Western Washington Wildcats. Hendry scored 16 points and 15 rebounds in that game. In their first district playoff game SFU beat Lewis-Clark State 102-56 to advance to the final, The team had had a first Blueback wins gold TERRACE — Chris Kerman © captured bronze, silver and gold medals for Terrace at the 1992 ‘AA’ provincial swim cham- pionships in Kelowna. Kerman was one of nine Ter- race Bluebacks/Points North competitors competing at the meet. ; The 1[0-year-old Blueback swimmer started out the meet with a bronze in the 400-metre freestyle, and followed that up with a second-place finish in the §0-metre backstroke. And on the final day of the competition, Kerman won gold in the 50-metre butterfly in his age 10-and-under division. ' "He swam really well,’’ coach Bill Nash said. “Everybody. did very well.” The Bluebacks also picked up a bronze in the 4x50-metre age 1i-12 boys relay. Jamie Ker- man, Vince Gair, and swimmers from Kitimat and Prince Rupert swam to a strong third-place finish, Vince Gair also placed sixth in the age 11-12 backstroke. The combined Points North team finished 13th overall out of 28 teams competing. There were 478 swimmers at the pro- vincial swim meet, Other swimmers competing at the meet included 14-year-old Joelle Walker, 10-year-old Jen- nifer. .Vanderlee, 10-year-old Patrick Levesque, nine-year-old Charlie Gair, and nine-year-old : Audrey: Erb.: wg pe SyPlog round bye in the district finals. The undefeated Clan finished 1991-92’s regular season with a perfect 14-0 district record and were 27-1 overall. The playoffs bring SFU to 16-0. A few more games added to that unbeaten streak would give Hendry and the Clan the one prize that has eluded them for four seasons — the NAIA national championship. Michelle Hendry Year =aterup vile Malcolm Baxter There's been ¢ a change of face on the Terrace Stan- dard’s sports beat! Beginning this week, Malcolm Baxter takes over that desk and will be the one you see wielding camera and notebook at local sports event. His lengthy, if unspec- tacular “athletic’’ career has seen him take part in many sports — he’s even played cricket ana understands the Tules. Call him at 638-7283 to get coverage of your sports events.. Beers wee A he | aga Aianyy I te ees + . eel lng) Yemasmay yy prongs “elit pen CHRIS KERMAN won sold, siiver and bronze medals vith the Ter- race Bluebacks-Points North swim team to the ‘AA’ provincial _championships in Kelowna two weekends ago.