AS - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 30, 1996 Ex-Greenpeacer comes to town

Moore smacks

By DAVE TAYLOR DR. PATRICK . MOORE should be a motivational speaker. He’s that- per- suasive.

One of the founders of Greenpeace, and now a director of the B.C. Forest Alliance, Moore was in Ter- race last week on ‘tour to provide people with a dif ferent perspective -° on

forestry than what he says is _

usually found in the media, His presentation: at a Chamber of Commerce lun- cheon on Tuesday had: the crowd smiling. “It doesn’t make any sense at all to be on one side or other in the forestry debate,’’ he told the group, “There are 30 or 40 sides to the issue, depending . on what your interests are.’? Moore says many environ- mentalists’ ‘interests «today are based on misinforma- tion, “Their

arguments are

forests

largely based on aesthetics,’ he says, “People assume that be- cause clearcuts are so ugly, they must be horrible, but that’s not the case,”’

Moore explains that prop- erly’ managed forestry doesn’t cfeate deserts, or wastelands — trees grow back, and the animals flourish. =~

~The. real deserts result from urban sprawl and agri- culture,’ Moore says, “That land will never be again, clearcuts will,”

Moore-also says environ- mentalists claim forestry destroys biodiversity. But he insists that properly managed forestry can ac- tually. increase biodiversity because the re-growing forests contain trees of dif- ferent age groups — offer- ing a variety of habitats,

And Moore points out that wood is the most renewable

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and environmentally sound natural resource on the planct, because the energy to create it comes directly from the sun.” “The environmental movement should actually be pro-foresiry, not anti- forestry,’? he says, ‘] just

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Criticisms like those have often put Moore at logger- heads with environmental groups, who see him as a traitor,

“Why do people say that I'm a waiter?’ he asks. ‘Because I grew up in a family of loggers? Because I spent 15 years leading the environmental movement? I believe ‘that ‘rather ‘than being a tumcoat, I have evolved. Meanwhile, they’re stuck in the ’7's.”"

But Moore does agree that the province needs more parks to protect some areas of old growth forests, and he commends the govemment for iis: efforts in creating them.

“Our children and our children’s children will

thank us,’’ he says. However, at the same time Moore insists that a 90-year-

tree huggers

old secoud growth forest has many of the characteristics of 500-year-old old growth. And he cites Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver as an ex- ample.

That park had been clear- cut by Moore's grandfather 90 ycars ago, but today it is lush and green,

‘The point is that a clear- cut is not the end of the world,” Moore says. “It’s not toxic waste. It’s just broken sticks and logs, lying on top of fertile soil.”’

So while Moore concedes that selective logging is best way to harvest under some circumstances, he says those ugly clearculs are often the best and safest way to get wood,

“Sometimes our eyes deceive us,’’? Moore says. “But we have to get past that.”

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ONE WORD, repeated three times, allowed the Ter- race and District Chamber of commerce’s visitor in- focentre to bounce back from a slow summer.

“Europeans, Europeans, Europeans,” is how cham- ber worker Sally Poppleton describes August’s figures,

The infocentre recorded 1,563 parties totalling 3,019 visitors in August compared to 1,248 parties in August 1995. ‘‘We picked up a lot in August,’’ said Pop- pletown.

She said a surge in European visitors was balanced against a drop in tourists from Alberta and Sas- katchewan, Europeans, Poppleton continued, did not hear news reports of a decline in the west coast comi- mercial salmon fishery.

Elsewhere, those reports were translated to include a decline in the recreational sport fishery, a factor which wasn't true in the northwest.

Poppleton also said more Canadians travelled in Can- ada this year and tags the 40 per cent Canadian dollar compared to the American one as a reason.

August’s figures shine compared to those of July when only 1,279 parties visited the infocentre com- pared to the 1,443 for July 1995,

Highway reconstruction work last year near the chamber office and the temporary move this year while the office was being renovated were also listed as rea- sons for drops in visitor numbers in June and July.