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PLAYS LARGE PART AT CELGAR Be it micro or wood, the chip plays a vital part in the efficient manufacture of pulp at the Celgar Pulp Operations. As part of Westar Timber’s overall decentralization program the mill is preparing for the future with the installation of its own on site IBM system 36 computer. check out the computer. Miner installed the elec- — and Quaic is the mill's operator anolyst. - eS Ee THE MOST important chips of all are the thousands of cubic metres of wood chips constantly pouring in by rail, road and pipeline. It tokes approximately six cubic metres to make a tonne of pulp and the pulp mill close to $12 million onnually to out- side sawmills in the East and West Kootenays for 50 per cent of its chip needs. JOE RICHICHI (lett) and Dave Ward from the ship- _ of pulp before it embarks on a journey: to any one ping department inspect the work of the new com- _ of the many countries in which Celgar's pulp is sold. puterized jet printer now used to identify each bale VANNI QUAIA (seated) and electrician Dave Miner [7 ACCOUNTING department's Pauline Bankert (dbove left) and Fred Castle (above right) can generate instant data on any aspect of the mill's financial records. The new system gives Kingsley Ki (left) immediate information on the quantities of stores inventory on hand. —— OA 40) ewOY © YM, 77 NL ~~) REVELSTOKE e )e NAKUSP C CASTLEGAR Southern Wood Products: Managing our resources Southern Wood Products is committed to excellence in forest management. The woodlands team, in co-opera- tion with the Ministry of Forests, performs a variety of functions throughout the year to ensure that the sawmill receives a steady diet of quality sawlogs and that the harvested forests are re-established through site preparation, planting and intensive forest management practices. Tree Farm Licence No. 28 covers the Columbia Valley, from Castlegar to Mica Dam, totalling over one million hectares, of which approximately one-third is productive forest land. Nine different merchantable tree species can be found on the tree farm, including: western hemlock, western red cedar, dougias-fir, western larch, western white pine, engelmann spruce, alpine fir, lodgepole pine and yellow pine. Some of the activities involved in forest management include: timber reconnaissance; road and cut block field location; e timber cruising; road construction; e timber harvesting; © post-logging site preparation; ¢ planting; ¢ follow-up treatment. It usually requires one year of planning and field work to prepare an area for harvesting, and several more years after logging to ensure a new crop is re-established. Southern Wood Products’ harvesting operations include clearcutting and select logging, as well as salvaging areas that have been damaged due to fire, insects, disease, and windthrow. The company's annual allowable cut is one million cubic metres, which is equivalent to over 27,000 logging truck loads. During 1985 a total of 1,200 hectares were prepared for planting by mechanical scarification and slashburning, and o7 ne million seedlings were planted. SWP's 1986 nj increased to nearly two million seedlings. Intensive forestry is also practiced on TFL No. 23 through pre-comi ja] thinning, juvenile spacing, brushing and weedifigr white pine pruning. Approximately 350 people are directly employed on the woodlands team at various times throughout the TOUR MAY 10 Westar Timber will be conducting a tour of the Cayuse harvesting area‘on practices, phone 365-8437 Saturday, May 10. Anyone for further information. ipterested in viewing some forestry and harvesting SFP HAS NEW BURNER Innovation is the name of Because it is made of oli- only new wrinkle at the mill. hot oil system in the mill's RESEARCH The Science Council of British Columbia is a major supporter of forest research in this province. Since 1980, when it first awarded AGAR (Assistance Grants for Applied Research) grants, the council has provided over $7 million to people conducting forest research in industry, not-for-profit institutes and the three B.C. universities. The Science Council was established by the provincial government in 1978. It has two principal mandates: to provide advice to the government on policy matters relating to science and research, and to encourage the development of science-based industry in the province. With respect to the latter, the council operates several scholarship and the funds available through its AGAR grants program. Applications are reviewed by volunteer sub-committees made up of experts in each of the 10 industrial sectors identified by the Council as being important to the economic development of British Columbia. One of these areas is research related to forests and forest products. The Science Council of British Columbia is convinced that our forests will play a central role in the provincial economy for decades to come. Accordingly, many of the forestry and forest products research projects it has supported in the last six years are relatively long-term ones. In other words, the economic results, in some cases, may not be realized for a decade or more. Typical is a project being worked on by scientists at Canadian Forest Products of Vancouver and Clay's Nurseries of Langley. In an important application of biotechnology, they are using tissue-culturing techniques (better known, perhaps, as “cloning”) to try to produce coniferous trees . . . Douglas Fir, Yellow Cedar and White Spruce . . . with superior growth characteristics. Clay Nurseries has had years of experience in producing nursery stock such as rhododendrons and azaleas using tissue-culturing. In fact, most of the plants they sell to markets around the world are grown this way. So their partnership with Canadian Forest Products, whose knowledge of British Columbia forests is extensive, is a natural one. The tissue to be cultured is clipped by the nursery staff from the growing tips of what are called “plus” trees. Plus trees are ones with long straight trunks, a high canopy of leaves and branches and which have shown resistance to disease, for instance. The tip may be no larger than the head of a pin at this stage. The tip is sterilized to eliminate possible contaminants and placed in a sterile nutrient medium in a test tube. It isn't long before the first shoots appear, then tiny branches. Next, the future “supertree” is transferred to a medium containing various hormones and other growth compounds designed to encourage the development of a root system. At present, there are several thousand little cloned conifers growing towards maturity at the Clay's Langley estate. it will take many years to prove that the methods that ha’ orked for magnolias and African violets will work with a structure as complex as a Douglas Fir. Scienct Council AGAR grants of $80,000 in 1983, $70,000 in 1984 and $52,297 in 1985 have assisted the Clay-Canfor partnership with its important research in this area. That's an example of what the Science Council is doing to ensure healthy, bountiful forests for the future. Other researchers are using their Science Council funds to explore ways of rejuvenating old stands of timber, to test different kinds of fertilizer to increase the rate of tree growth and to measure the amount of moisture lost by young seedlings in tree farms. There are many more such projects. But our forests and forest industry have more immediate needs as well, so a number of other Science Council-assisted projects are addressing them. Every year, from 50 to 60 million lodgepole pines are the game at Slocan Forest vine rock instead of steel, An automatic J-bar sorter dry kiln. The system uses destroyed in British Columbia by mountain pine beetles. Products sawmill in Slocan. which is used in the trad- Last August the mill in- itional beehive burners, the stalled a new “olivine” bur- olivine burner is able to burn ner — a refractory burner at a much higher temper- that burns wood waste vir- ature. tually pollution-free. But the burner isn't the was installed in the planer mill shavings to heat the kiln. mill in October. The random length, multi- Actually, the destruction is caused by a fu the beetle carries. The beetles burrow through the into the live The J-bar automatically species mill employs 150 tissue of a tree, and there the fungus grows until it clogs the sorts and stacks lumber. people and produces 110 mil Another innovation at the lion board feet of lumber an- mill is the use of a “Konus” nually. channels through which the sap flows. The tree dies for lack of nutrients. The cost to the B.C. forest industry is hard to estimate, but it grows higher year by year.