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"Forest service researchers
studying timber values in the
proposed 60,000-hectare Val-
halla Wilderness Park recom-
mend the hire of consultants
to wrap up the field: work
begun last fall. :

More engineering, soils
and economic data is needed
to determine if timber could
be logged economically and
where access roads pose the
least risk to the environment.

The researchers from the
Arrow forest district know
their two-week fact-finding
mission along Nemo Creek
and Wee Sandy Creek drain-
ages was too brief to answer
these questions.

Resource officer, Reiner
Augustin, led the party and
he says, “More field work will.
have to be done. Just 20 per
cent of the area has been
examined on the ground to
date. .

“We will need a soil
scientist to map areas of soil
stability that allow for, log-
ging and construction. : of
access roads. We are also
looking at hiring a forest
economist to examine the

of logging the

A moratorium on logging
the Valhallas is in effect until
the end of 1981.

Meanwhile, forest service
planners have determined
that hemlock and cedar make
up 60 per cent of the mature
volume in Nemo Creek while
hemlock and cedar accounts
for 75 per cent of the
merchantable-sized wood in
the Wee Sandy Creek.

Healthy stands of spruce
and balsam populate both
valleys but some fire ming-
ling with lakefront larch and
lodgepole pine suffers from
root rot,

This summer, engineers
are expected to take up the
search begun last fall for
potential access roads to
timber in both drainages.

The researchers were de-
feated in the first try to finish
a survey of acceas to timber
along Wee Sandy Creek by a
headwall banking the lake
and by an upstream cascade.
More field work is needed to
_Survey potential roads along
Nemo Creek.

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‘Valhalla Wi derness Park.
‘More field work has to be-done

‘ng ee rule out connect-
access roads to any
ene public or private
roads.
Concern. for the ‘visual

impact of logging on slopes -

facing Slocan Lake fs also
noted by the: researchers who
will plug into a visual re-
source Management program
completed last year by the
forest seryice.

A blend of ground: skidding
and cable-logging will be
needed to limit environmen-
tal damage. Helicopter log-
ging is a possibility.

‘The researchers also took
stock of recreation and wild-
life values they know would

be disturbed temporarily by
baliesti

There is a wonder ‘of
waterfalls, Indian picto-
graphs, historical flumes and
corduroy. horse trails to ex-
perience. There are few
hiking trails and those along
Nemo Creek runa gauntlet of
avalance chutes and dense .
brush and lead the way to
resident grizzlies and moun-

goats.
Recreation! development

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Crondrooe

under ministry of forests
jurisdiction would follow a
wilderness theme of rustic
campsites and the placing of
* recreation reserves over four
beaches,

In_ the . meantime, re-

searchers are gearing up to .

complete the field work and
begin a second study of
timber values in the entire
Slocan Valley.

‘This work will benefit the
Kootenay regional resource
management committee in its
study of all’ resources in the
valley.

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