Troe CPO Lowint

Joe Schoenfeld

Not very much. I'll
be working in Van-
couver with Ward Air
effective about the
middle of May. fll un-
doubtedly have an op-
portunity to enjoy Ex-
po 86. With: the job
transfer { won’t ac-
tually be having a
holiday but will be
working and enjoying
the lower mainland;
hopefully having a
good summer.

Bob Jackman

Work, council
meetings and
hopefully a week in
July at my parents
place in Kelowna. |
am also hoping to

bullding go up.

watch the new RCMP .

What’s on.
your
summer
holiday
agenda?

Debbie Craig
To tell you the truth
| have no Idea yet. It
depends on what my
husband is doing;
what the work situa-
tion is.

Jerome Ware

Expo 86. I'll be driv-
ing down to Van-
couver the last week
of May and first week
in June. That’s about
as far as | can afford
to go. | have friends
and relatives in the
lower malniand so |
won't have to worry
about hotel costs. |
may also go to Ed-
monton and see the
big mall they have
there.

The Terrace Review asked:

my?

Ed Cote

I’m retired so I will
probably do a little
fishing here and
there. I'll be taking ad-
vantage of whatever
trips | can take out of
town that will not be

‘too expensive.

Patrick Mcintyre

Upon graduating
from Caledonia Sen-
ior Secondary School,

i will be heading
down to Expo (I'll be
paying for it anyway,
so | should at least
see it). Afterwards, I'l
be flying to Ontario to
visit relatives and the
acid rain. The rest of
the time will be used
to prepare for life in.
University.

Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 16,1986 §

To the editor,

Skeena NDP MLA
Frank Howard has pro-
posed two forestry bills,
one which proposes to
create a reforestation
fund that would be ad-
ministered by a trust
company, and the other
would supposedly en-
courage small business
forestry.

Both are highly rele-
vant to the problems of
forestry but on closer
scrutiny seem to lack
validity and tend to be
more intent on creating
an image of doing
something for forestry
rather than having the
substance for creative
change.

It is a good idea to
have the reforestation
fund de-politicalized and
more permanent but cer-
tainly not at the expense
of having another level
of bureaucracy, which
would compound the
forestry centralization
and fragmentation pro-
blem.

Right now under Sec-
tion 88 of the Forestry
Act, which deals with
reforestation, we are
overburdened with a

- bureaucracy that is
fragmented, has ques-
tionable accountability
and has a paper burden
that makes the profes-
sional foresters throw up
their hands in frustra-
tion.

Generally, with the
bureaucratic, frag-
mented approach, one
group cuts the wood,
another plants it,
another weeds it (when
there are available funds)
and two groups verify

A hint of Spring weather last week brought Terrace haussholders outside to clean up the

debris of Winter.

correctly. Mr. Howard's
bill, in my opinion,
would establish another
‘block of bureaucracy,
but it is not more blocks
that we need; we need
better cement to inter-
face the blocks that we
already have.

YOO

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that each step is done.

In my opinion, a bet-
ter model would be one
in which the people who
cut the forest are respon-
sible for its regeneration.
It is more ‘holistic’, en-
courages efficiency, and
it can be made accoun-
table by a bonding pro-
gram and professional
foresters in the field; not
behind-the-desk
foresters shuffling
papers. .

A second alternative
which is still in the idea
stage and needs further
research is the decen-
tralized ‘tree farm
homesteader’ concept.
The general idea of this
concept would be to
allow people access to
crown land for
homesteading in return
for reforestation respon-
sibilities.

In Canada, 80 percent
of our forests is ‘owned’
by the government. In
B.C. the amount is even
higher. The centralized
control of our common
heritage is not necessary,
and I believe it is more
desirable to have decen-
tralized reforestation op-
tions in conjunction with
the centralized aspects.

In Sweden, for in-
stance, only 25 percent
of the forest base is
‘owned’ by government,
but the government
utilizes legislation to
make sure that the 75
percent dominated by in-
dividual tree farmers is
run efficiently with ac-
countability by profes-

Letter to the Editor

Reforestation problems abound

sional foresters. By
allowing individuals the
entrepreneurial option,
we specifically encourage
opportunity at the
grassroots level.

Entrepreneurial
motivation and in-
dividual responsibility
are better factors for ef-
ficiency than another
level of bureaucracy,
which I believe, is at the.
center of Mr. Howard’s
bill. .

With Bill M-208, Mr.
Howard proposes to
amend the Ministry of
Forests Act to encourage
small business by simply
adding a paragraph to
the act which says the
ministry is to ‘“‘en-
courage a vigorous and
efficient small enterprise
timber harvesting and
processing industry “in
the province.”’

This encouragement
for small business seems
to be nothing but a
motherhood statement
of intent but proposes no
mechanisms of how the
government can
specifically create a
larger share for small
business. How can big
business’s 96 percent
allotment of the Terrace
area forest resource be
changed for the better-
ment of the forestry in-
dustry as a whole by pro- -
viding a larger share to
small business?

William Hayes,
Provincial Liberal
Candidate, Skeena. ©

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