: ‘| fait % . Ay RY pat me it Me Bye ae Lie - . a ad Be 7 ey i “a - ae : ce ast] wae ye. a ney Sere SOEUR Tite a Ee tat RR IR Ee TAS Eco-Trust, an Oregon-based conservation group, and the Haisla natives of Kitimat are holding meetings Jan. 23 and 24 at the Mount Layton Hot Springs to discuss the fate of the Kitlope valley south of Kitimat. Ken Margolis, the Eco-Trust representative who is organizing the meetings, said last week the intent tis to "give decision- _. makers a range of alternatives". Participants will include a range of technical experts and govern- ment representatives. Invited participants include Peter Pearse, who conducted a royal commis- sion into forestry in the 1970's, and Hank Ketcham, president of the company that holds cutting rights to the Kitlope, West Fraser Timber. ; Margolis couldn’t confirm Pearse’s attendance, and Ket- cham’s secretary said Monday her boss won’t return to work until later this week. Two years ago Eco-Trust, then known as Conservation Interna- tional, applied to have the Kit- lope protected under the prov- ince’s Old Growth plan. The society claimed the Kitlope was the last unlogged old growth watershed of temperate zone rain forest on the west coast, and Zz - Meeting called to probe new options for Kitlope although it was not unique bio- logically. the organization betieved it was worth preserving. The Old Growth committee acknowledged the application but to date has not placed. the Kitlope. under a designation. More recently a Greenpeace vessel carrying several scientists and a group of Scandinavian journalists. visited the Kitlope, generating wide publicity about the area. . Margolis said the - January meetings here will attempt to draft “alternative management ‘plans and alternative designa- tions" for the Kitlope. Presenta- tions will. be limited to invited participants, he said, but the public is welcome to sit in on the sessions within the seating limits of the room they’ve reserved at the hot! springs: resort. The area falls under Tree Farm Licence 41, held joinily by West Fraser and Eurocan, operators of Skeena Sawmills in Terrace and the Eurocan pulp mill in Kiti- mat. The area was to be logged within the next year, but the company acknowledged the interest in it and set logging plans back to 1994, Although West Fraser plans to . already drawn up, and he a Uf / rene Start the | : Ue IN New Yeats Dy i log only three percent of the total land area in the Kitlope, Margolis termed it a "timber liquidation plan". He said the total chance plan — the detailed list of options for logging — is beli¢ves the company. and the forest service should be given a wider range of options. The Haisla are on record as opposing any logging in the Kitlope, an area their claim as part of their ancestral territory, although it is unoccupied now. _ West Fraser is currently work- ing on a new five-year Manage- ment and Working Plan for TFL 41. The plan was due to be submitted to the Ministry of Forests at the end of 1991, but West Fraser forester Scott Mar- leau, who is responsible for drawing up the plan, said last ~week the company had been granted a six-month extension. He said extensive studies had to be done on this plan to update the environmentally sensitive areas to be removed from the land base that can be logged. -Marleau said he hasn’t been contacted by Eco-Trust. "We haven’t heard anything at this mill." Terrace Review -—' Wednesday, January 8, 1992°3 HELP FOR THE HUNGRY. Terrace Churches Food Bank purchaser Terri Elkiw sorts and organizes holiday food donations. The food bank will be open Jan. 13-16: Monday for peopla whose last names begin with A-H, Tuesday for |-R, Wednesday for S-Z, and Thursday for those unable to come on the previous days. Elkiw says the variety of food being’ feceived shows that donors are considering all the needs of those who use the food bank's services. Anglers get to keep. steelhead Anglers who ply the Skeena and Nass rivers and their tribu- taries are greeting the new year with smiles. The emergency catch-and-release regulations on steelhead were revoked Jan. 1, allowing sport fishermen to _ maximum of two per month. The fisheries branch of the B.C, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks says the catch restraints have been lifted to allow anglers to harvest winter run steelhead, but the agency in protected areas are still under catch-and-release.. The restric- tions are outlined in the current issue of the Regulations Synop- sis. 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