4 ' suited for all types of terrain in smaller trucks,and little damage ‘ the Northwest, Terrace logger to top soil in the logged area. _ the top soil, replant the trees, . Northwest offered terrain suited _. times to thin or space the trees to logging and that the two could ~ ‘ensurea healthy stand of timber. - co-exist.. Steep and uneven ter- - the nature of a ‘horse logging making mechanized logging the _ ameatly spaced forest to mature ' horse logging and the environ- _takes - Valley Junior Golf ‘Tournament ___ Terrace correspondent TERRACE —. Logging in the i distant past, It’s a proud heri- # tage — remembered in every |: B.C. museum with artifacts.and © black and white photographs of burly men and large horses working long hours to harvest unending stands of timber. '- That romantic life style, it was believed, disappeared many dec- ades ago. Lost in the smell of * Miesel. fuel and the bark of the chain saw, the forests were no longer unending stands of tim- | * ber. and many discussions were |y. Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 22, 1987 13. dorse logging still active in Northwest * turning to talk of pollution — of ——— eee : , ) permanent environmental des- Last winter Cort Pitzotf of Terrace worked on an Employment Development truction, oT , Branch training program with “Slugger”, a Percharon/Morgan mix. Learning . . oe or oh “ ” I _ The truth is that horse logging horse loping coston ett her work day in this taborinteneive Gordon Doll stands | n an unlogged area of ‘blow downs’ ata site near Beam Station Road. Doll, a long time Terrace resident, was a faller for horse logging operations in the Northwest many years ago and now offers his skill and ‘knowledge to teach local horse loggers how to clean up and fall a stand of | timber. never really disappeared and is — ——————— = — now beginning a slow revival. better ones to ‘mature, leaving .and more labor-intensive manual Thanks to some stubborn and you with a nice evenly spaced operation of horse logging | ‘enduring loggers, the true value stand of good solid trees which which combines good logging of horse logging as‘an environ- are free from defects.” _ and silviculture practices in one mentally sound method of tim- Ramsey said that other advan- operation, a Forests Minister Dave Parker | _ has said inthe past, “There _ is: definitely a niche in. our in- ‘dustry for the horse logger.” “__ Next week, Parker will shed -ber harvest is being rediscovered tages were. ‘manufactured logs’ in.B.C. and is gaining populari-- cut to- mill specifications, ty. . _ minimal logging road _re- '' Although horse logging isnot quirements because of the - Ted Ramsey has predicted that it “‘Horse. logging does a nice _ will become a major industry in neat job with little or no damage this country within 25 years, to the ground. Where -horses The current trend in mech- have been skidding for months. anized logging, according to you would never recognize it. Ramsey, was to clear cut anen- It’s just like a little trail through tire hillside of timber, move a | the woods,’’ he said, a crew in torepairdamagedoneto | Ramsey said he believed the . | and then return two or three to both mechanized and horse -, By comparison, he explained, rain was unsuited for horses, operation was to cut trees selec- only practical . alternative, .. but - tively — leaving the best trees in relatively flat land was ideal for for a later harvest. mental advantages of that type “It?s. good quality work,’ of operation could be used to the said Ramsey. ‘‘You take out the advantage of the forest industry, lower quality trees and leave the | The B.C. Forestry Act is the : . a _ only hurdle between success and 7 E failure in the horse logging in- Mi cDonal dustry, and Ramsey said it’s a . , problem that needs to be ad- dressed now. a Ramsey said the stands of. a timber are sold to the highest. . eH ‘bidder, a system favoring the re ie ' highly efficient mechanized con- -_ - tractor over -the more labor- : 2 DU . ; junior. —— Doel. . . - intensive horse logging opera- golf - tion: . | " *‘A machine logger can go in - ; Oo and clear cut an area in three Kitimat’s Bryan McDonald weeks that would take a horse. put together 18-hole rounds of logger two months to log selec- . 75 and 73 to post the overall low tively. so. you obviously can’t -gross.score of 148 for the Skeena compete dollar wise. \ “*The nature of horse logging Championship on July 12 is to log selectively, not clear weekend... cut, and consequently you leave ., McDofegy won by nine the best wood there.” | strokes over''Kitimat*clubmate | What is needed, according to’ | Cam Muirhead, whose 159 gave Ramsey, is for the government him low gross honors for the to designate horse logging as a championship flight. separate category in the in- . . Overall low net went to Davey dustry, recognizing the unique OUR OFFER ON ESCORT, TRACER, TAURU "SABLE, BRONCO II, AND RANGER some light on the Ministry’s ‘position on horse logging and if ‘changes are in the works that will make the industry a viable. one in B.C. jor’, a 2,000-pound Belgian, drag logs into a landing area where they Wilk be loaded and trans- ported by truck to a Ter- race mill, Houlden.is the m basic trainer In the area fer all aspects of horse logging. us en ee _IN SIMPLE BLACK AND WHITE. 4 ‘ é i, | } { i Hany Houlden and “Ma foe mR Mg fee Ree cope Jones with a score of 124. - ‘ Runnerup to Muirhead for. championship flight gross was) ple. Bither you turn a quick Kevin Moldenhauer with a 165. advantages it has to offer. 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