to cut trees Ty _ kay Milton. This is “the last of it. This is your Cutting Permit» Application. " Herby Squish’ had wondered himself if this day would ever come. Soon Milton Jovial would have better things to do than hang around his office, complaining about politicians and chip exports... "It’s not fair," was his favourite utterance. Then trying to hit on his number one prize. His secretary... Squirrel. "It’s not fair," Squish would tell Squirrel at the end of a particularly difficult day. "Not to worry sir," Squirrel would reply. "Milty’s not my cup of tea. All he ever talks about is how much money his ' Milwaukee plastic plant makes and what a big mistake this venture was..." "Squish? You okay?" Jovial’s voice rattled the silence. "Sorry Milton... Day dreaming. Just thinking about how much we're going to miss seeing you around here every day," he lied. "Umh... Right. Cutting Permit Application." Squish then got to the business at hand and explained the basics of the application for Cutting Permit 1, Block 1 of Jovial’s Coastal Forest Licence. The application identified the site as being on the west side of Clutch Creek, south of Beetle Mountain, and 72 kilo- metres west of Jovial’s Cedarvale sawmill. Out of a total area of 61.5 hectares, there were 56.4 hectares of mature timber and 5.1 hectares of swamp and rock. "There’s a lot of technical data in here but only a couple of things you really need to understand," Squish explained. "First, there’s a map. The same one as on the Pre- Harvest Silviculture Prescription." Squish explained once more how the map identified the perimeter of the cutblock, the main logging road, landings, skid trails, slope, the swampy area in the north and wetlands in the south. He then tried to explain how the area was cruised, something no one ever understood. "I used a method called Variable Plot Sampling using a prism..." he began, but was stopped almost immediately by Jovial’s blank Stare, "Never mind," he said. "All you really need to know is that 1 walked through the bush, looked at a few trees, and calculated the volume of merchantable timber.. There are 39,958 cubic metres of wood in this particular cut block and it’s about 75 percent hemlock, 24 percent balsam and one percent spruce and alder. "And what’s this," Jovial asked. "Height, diameter curve... Looks like a video game." With practised patience, Squish explained. "This also comes from data collected on the timber cruise. The dots indicate actual hemlock samples. On the left is the height of the tree in metres. And along the bottom is the diameter in centimetres at breast height. That’s the diameter 1.3 metres above the ground... The minimum is 17.5 centimetres. The asterisks indicate the actual curve calculated by the computer." Squish could see he had lost ~ Jovial completely. "Okay. That’s enough for now," he said, “All this information along with the Pre- Harvest Silviculture Plan which says how you're going to harvest, re-plant and manage this particular cut block will get you a Cutting Permit. With that, you get a Licence to Cut and you can start logging." And, as an afterthought, "How's your mill coming along?" ~ "Great," Jovial returned. "Next week we cut the ribbon. You just get all these applications in and get me that licence. Oh, and finish lining up all those contractors I need, I’m ready to go logging." School budget — Continued from page A3 Piersdorff said. The remainder is debt servicing, capital and targeted funds. Of the amount for direct services, staffing cost will take up 83.3 percent, administration costs in the funding block for all the classes that actually exist here, only the number of classes the ministry determines should be here. ; 5.3 percent, and the balance goes ~ for supplies. "What's driving the budget is what’s available — the block," he said. Terrace received an amount greater than the provincial average block, but not by as much as last year. One of the main restricting fac- tors in the local board’s allocation of block funds is the class size agreement it has with the TDTA, Cooper said, "It was a decision we made," she noted. The ministry funds districts on the basis of a provincial class size average, Piersdorff explained. With smallef-thaf-average class sizes, District 88 doesn’t get recognition Cooper said that means there are about 10 teachers employed by the district that aren't recognized in ministry funding. In addition to that, the $100,000 paid annually by the district in leases on portable classrooms is also not recognized because those classrooms wouldn't exist if the district class sizes were in line with the provincial average. The same logic applies to main- tenance and utllity costs. Overall, costs continue to go up. Piersdorff sald he was notified last week thal the district has becn put on a new rate schedule by B.C. Hydro that will increase that cost by about 10 percent. a ’ Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 17, 1991 Al Insights by Tod Strachan, in consultation with Rod Amold and Doug Davies rowaA? oF lee, BLock i - UATE 4 gaa RuaD Ee nOCATION OPENING BOUNDARY REGION «. -BVBREL™ UU STRATA BOUNOARY -. -. = otammicr : acc. SUN toNE LAMOING TERURE » SKIO TRAIL ' RANE BY Hi ftsinbe. A map of the cutblock is a necessary part of both the Pre-Harvest Silviculture Plan (PHSP) and the Cutting Permit Application. The map identifies the perimeter of the cutblock, logging roads, landings, skid trails. Also indicated on the map are things llke slopes, swamps and different ecosystems. TREATHENY TYPE AREA {ha Gnoas mblL EPA MET : Clesrcut/handfall, greund skid in 61.6 @.0 5.2 2BQ 0 oo summer ivinter, mech . elte prep. / Blast my, Sx, Pl, Chen. /mah. B/W Chasrcutshand£all, ground shid in $0.20 8.1 3.4 10.7 Wintee, no aite prep., plant sb by, cha, /man, om TOTAL «Gl SE tk abet HEIGHT ** DIAMETER CURVE --- HEMLOCK Company : Ministry of Forests Licence: 12345 FI Zone: J P.S.Y.U.: TERRACE 10 Apr 91 Location: Clutch Creek Type :H(B)931P Maturity: M Samples : 40 Version: MS43 Predicted Values of the Conditioned Parobola (*) & Scattergram of Observed Height-Diameters (.) -.HT 62—5 55-4 50-+ 43—4 3i- . jw i ji... os ee | eee ie Pn ee | ° 20 40 66 so 8 =©100 »= i20s—isksC(éiOCOC«isi2( 2k The Height-Diameter Curve is a direct result of the timber cruise and offers a profile of the timber in the cutblock. In the example above, the dots (.) indicate the diameter in centimetres of an actual tree at breast height (1.3 metres above the ground on the high side of the tree) in comparison with its height in metres. A computer uses actual data to plot a curve of predicted values in the entire cutblock which is indicated by asterisks (*).