HELLO ON WHEELS. ‘This is great," said- Mills Memorial Hospital patient Ray Lang. "I'll use
it a lot. it will make the time go by faster." He was responding to B.C. Tel’s move — through
installer Darrell Kormandy — to put a pay telephone in the medical-surgical ward that will roll to
patients’ bedsides. The phone has a 70-foot cord to plug into jacks installed at regular intervals in
the hallways. Supervising nurse Sharon Prinz took delivery of the device. B.C. Tal will service and

maintain it.

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+ Moratorlam imposed

oa

on logging in Kitlope

Less than a week after the Kit-
lope Lake area was examined by a
team of scientists, the Minister of
Forests has declared a moratorium
on logging in the entire 350,000-
hectare watershed for the next 16
months.

The Kitlope, part of West Fraser-
Eurocan’s Tree Farm Licence #41,
has been identified by Oregon-
based Ecotrust, until recently
known as Conservation Intema-
tional, as the last unlogged temper-
ate rain forest watershed in North
America. Ecotrust representative

Ken Margolis said there were

about 25 people in the party, in-
cluding 10 scientists and several
Haisla people, that examined parts
of the Kitlope over a period of
days. The scientists
included a forest ecologist, fishery
biologist, an omithologist and an
anthropologist. :

"What a _ place!" Margolis
exclaimed. He noted that one of
the most significant parts of the
experience was being there with
the Haisla, who claim the Kitlope
as part of their traditional territory.
Their attitude toward the land as
part of their spiritual well-being
and their physical existence was a
revelation, he said.

Conservation Intemational had
nominated the Kitlope over a year
ago as a Catididate area for con-
sideration under the Ministry of

_ Forests Old Growth strategy pro-
‘ject. Margolis explained in an

interview several weeks ago that
his organization is not a radical
preservation movement but rather
a scientific group that tries to
harmonize development and con-
cem for the environment. The
information gathered during the
Kitlope study, he said, will be
written into a series of reports.

Those reporis will be "synthesized"
into a single document by Ecotrust
forester Ray Travers, who has
worked both for government and
industry as a forester in B.C. The
final report will be presented to the
ministries of forests and parks, the
Haisla and the forest companies
involved in the Kitlope tenure.
Margolis said they intend the
report to reflect the broad charac-

teristics of the area, how well it
reflects the typical forest of the
north coast, and to suggest ques-
tions for Further research.

They hope to have it finished by.
June 15, he said.

Margolis said in their brief stay
in the Kitlope they found nothing
that would set the area apart from
other temperate rain forests, "It
gives us an opportunity to find out
a lot about this type of watershed,"
he explained. Noting that he is not
a scientist, Margolis said that he
was strongly impressed by the
hydrodynamics of the watershed,
and concerned about the effect that
logging timber on the alluvial
floodplain would have. "That river
really moves around,” he said.

Haisla leader Chief Gerald Amos
accompanied the group on their
tour of the Kitlope. Amos said the
Kitlope is the furthest southerly
extent of their traditional territory,
and some of the people who went
there with Ecotrust actually lived

-in the Kitlope about 40 years ago,

the most recent time of Haisla
occupation.

The Haista registered their land
claim with the federal government
in 1978, and they were one of the
first native groups on the provin-
cial land claims registry after it
was set up last year.

Amos is also on the board of
Ecotrust, and although they appear
to be. taking a lead role in the
Kitlope issue Amos noted that the
Haisla are in fact at the foundation
of the undertaking.

West Fraser has had discussions
with the Haisla, Amos said, but
there have been no recent meet-
ings. "Our position is that we are
going to ensure there will be no
logging in the Kitlope," Amos said.
"We have bigger and better things
in mind for it.”

Scott Marleau, chief forester for
Skeena Sawmills in Terrace, is
responsible for drawing up the
company’s five year Management
and Working Plan. Although the
company had originally intended to
go in to the Kitlope this year, he
said, they put it off until 1994
when the Old Growth and Wilder-
ness 90's initiatives both identified
the Kitlope as an area of interest.

It's Time fora Change

Helmut Giesbrecht
New Democrat for Skeena