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The provincial Environmental Ap-
peal Board is likely to take about a
manth to decide on the Robson-Rasp-
berry Improvement. District's appeal
of a water licence issued to a Cresce
Valley man who wants to build a smal
hydroelectric project on Norns Creek
in the Pass Creek area.

Ron Hoodicoff of Goose Creek,
who obtained the water licence for the
project from the provincial Environ
ment Ministry's Water Management
Branch, squared off against RRID
board chairman Brucé Austin at the
appeal board hearing in
Hoodicoff defended his
RRID complaints that. the
line of

project
against
project will lead to further de:
water qualigy in Norns Creek which,
supplies drinking water to residents of
the Robson-Raspt

The water supply is already plagued
by problems of siltation which renders
the improvement district’s ultraviolet

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Health
RRID

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Won’t damage water
quality, builder says

In addition to the potential problem
of increased sit, Austin said RRID of-
ficials also Worry about possible con-

mination of the from
polychlorinated biphenyls. (PCBs) in
transformers the project will use and
interruptions to the water supply the
project may cause

But Hoodicoff, who has built a
similar but smaller hydroelectric plant
to supply power to his home in Gbosé
Creek, said. the Notns Creek project
will not affect the water supply

Hoodicoff said the project involves
construction of a ‘weir’ six to eight
feet high which will divert water from
the creek into a pipe which would carry
the water to a small powerhouse about
14 feet by 20 feet in size

He said the project will not require
clearing around the creek which may
cause increased erosion and sedimen

water

As well, Hoodicoff said water would
be returned to the creek without in-
terruption of the watersupply to Rob-
son-Raspberry residents.

He said he intends to build the
hydroelectric’ plant without interrup
ting the water supply by sandbagging
half the creek and constructing one:
half of the weir and then, through a
series of gates, allow the water to flow
through the constructed part while the
project is completed

As for contamination from PCBs,
Hoodicoff pointed out that transfor
mers with PCBs can no longer be sold
in B,C, and the manufacturing of such
equipment ended in 1974

Jack Farrell, the province's deputy
comptroller of water rights who atten
ded the Castlegar hearing, agreed,
noting that new electrical components
do not use PCBs.

Hydro project defended

Hoodicoff said West Kootenay
Power, to whom he intends to sell the
power generated by the project, may
provide the transformers.

“1 will arrange the situation to my
sure nothing in the transformers
possibly do any harm,"’ Noodicott
tld the appeal board.

Hoodicoff has at least one well
known environmentalist in his corner

David Lewis of Crescent Valley, a
speaker for the Green Party of B.C
backs the project

“+1 find Ron’s hydro development to
be something I can wholeheartedly
** Lewis wrote in a letter to the

‘This is small
owned, and the
money stays here. There is no reservoir
to speak of being created, the area in
volved is second-growth forest and due
to global warming there is an u
precedented urgency for the creation
of renewable energy resources sup-
plies. I find it hard to imagine how
Robson-Raspberry water quality will
be impaired asa result of this project.”*

support,
Castlegar News.
business, locally

W.E. Graham school
gets fitness award

W.E. Graham
dary school in Slogan is one of just two
schools in B.C. to receive the Canadian
Association for Health, Physical
Education and Recreation’s (CAH
PER) fitness award for 1989-90.

The CAHPER award recognizes the
school for its high-quality physical
education programs

“The emphasis ison the inclusion of
150 minutes of physical education each
week for each child, a variety of in-
dividual, dance, aquatic and
outdoor sports in physical education
classes, an extracurricular and in
tramural program that focuses on par
ticipation, use of community resources
and sources to facilitate variety,
leadership -opportunities,
qualifications of staff
subject, and most important the al
titude of everyone in the school towar
ds health, recreation and fitness,”” said
W.E. Graham principal Marion Hun

elementary-secon

team,

student
teaching. the

ter
Two mornings week, the

aerobic portion of the schools Fit to

every

Read program takes place

“We combine three mornings of
wide silent reading — with
two of a walk and run program,” Hun
ter said. ‘Our intramural program oc
curs at lunch with all grades (kin
dergarten to Grade 9) having the op
portunity to participate.””

An intramural council selects the
sports, determines the participation
system and helps organize special even
Is like indoor-outdoor trackmeet and
schedule.

The students also referee and keep
score while teachers are encouraged to
play with their teams. The focus is on
participating and last year 100 per cent
of the student body participated in at
least one activity

The extracurricular program. in
Gludes Grades 5 to 9 in sports such as
basketball, cross-country, volleyball,
tennis, track and field and softball,
with all Grades $ to 7
in interschool activities and 80 per cent
of Grade 7 to 9 students playing on
school teams

school

students involved

The school uses Whitewater Skt
Hill, community tennis courts, skating
rink, curling rink, beaches and
Valhalla hiking trails to add variety to
gym and playing field venues

“All physical education classes are
being taught by people with majors or
degrees in the subject,” said Hunter,
who has an initial degree in physical
education. ‘The total staff is involved
in some way with our intramural or ex-
tracurricular offerings.

Hunter credited W.E. Graham's
teachers with the success of the
programs.

“Special attention must be paid to
Peter Stoll, a part-time teacher who
runs with a group of students each day
every day during lunch,"’ Hunter said

“Plus to Paul Thiessen, a Grade 7 to 9
physical teacher, who

coaches four teams and co-sponsors

education

the intramural programs with Stoll,
Barb Lindsay and myself

The CAHPER
Last school year was the pilot
project(for the program

award is for two
years

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By JOHN CUTHBERT
Chief Forester
Province of British Columbia

Recently, thé Sierra Club disputed the quality of
British Columbia’s future coastal forests

I must question the club’s source for its alle;

— areport, written bya former log-scaler, a form
planting contractor and a conservation advocate. It is
based entirely on opinions and selected quotes from
government reports

The author claims our coastal forest plantations
are failing. Thisis fiction.

The fact is, we
province phenomenally in recent years
quality and in quantity

This year, we planted the two billionth tree under
our reforestation programs. It took 30 years to plant the
first billionth seedling, seven years for the
billionth, and now, within four planting seasons we will
plant another billion trees

But we don’t stop after we've planted the tree in the
ground

Since growing quality trees is our main objective,
we monitor and tend the new forests to ensure that our
trees reach the “‘free-growing”
to conduct research on how to grow better trees

OPINION

Our efforts, of course, have not been 100 per cent
successful in the past. We've made mistakes,
planting Douglas fir on a limited number of sites where
it grows too fast, leading toa distorted form

Through research, we've identified the problems
with particular species in some areas. We've also come
up with solutions to resolve these problems.

Today, we are implementing one of the foremost
systems in the world to determine the best way to harvest
and then prepare and reforest the harvested sites. It was
devloped by our own research ecologists.

This ecologically based.management system, un
paralleled in scope and provides
management strategies for all our forest ecosystems
based on the characteristics of the sites

Our highly trained ecologists worked for more than
nate into

¢ improved reforestation in our
both in

second

of 10 species.

stage. And, we continue

such as

usefulness,

10 years to classify the soils, vegetation and cli
distinct management units

Today,
sound ecological decisions for every treatment they
prescribe,
seedlings for a site

Since the early 1980s,
program on e
of the plantations now showing distorted growth were
planted before these guidelines were developed

Research into the distorted growth of Douglas fir
indicates that it grows too rapidly on some wetter and
even though it was the original

foresters are using this system to make
from locating roads to selecting the right

we've based our planting
logically based species selection. Most

richer ecosystems,

species on the site
The report, cited by the Sierra Club, states,

are hundreds of thousands of hectares of distorted and

“there

orest programs
defended

siunted growth on the Coast;
perhaps of millions of hectares.”*

Distorted growth is a natural occurrence and exists
to some degree in every coastal Douglas fir forest
Severe distortion is evident on less than 2,000 hectares.
In stands with a higher level of distortion only 20 per
cent of the stems are affected and these trees will be
removed through spacing or thinning operations.

We do know, however, that the areas where the
problem is significant is limited to sites on Vancouver
Island’s extreme west coast and some mid-coast areas,
where the land is flat and very wet

Before we developed the ecologivally based species
selection system, we reforested the harvested sites ac
cording to the value of the trees. At that time, Douglas

Provincially there are

fir was the species chosen because of its high value. At
present, our ecologically based system indicates a range
of species that is suited to the site and those are the
species planted

The statement that **
that the value of these trees are 43 per cent of anticipated

the most recent report shows
value’* refers to a study that looked at two sites, which
showed the most severe expression of undesirable form
traits found in Douglas fir on the coast

The authors also claim that **
calling large parts of Vancouver Island
slums." "”

This statement
challenge the authors to identify which foresters? How
many? And,
areas?

foresters are privately
‘silviculture

makes great headlines, but |

exactly how large and where are these

The average survival rate on plantations is British
Columbia for the past 10 years is 73 per cent. Survival is
84 per cent for more recent plantations. Research will
continue to improve survival.

We have virtually no backlog of unsatisfactorily
stocked Crown forest land on Vancouver Island.

The authors also refer to forest soil degradation
from forestry activities

We recognize the need for
management. We have implemented soil disturbance
guidelines to minimize degradation. We are conducting

good forest soil

numerous research projects throughout the province on
this issue. And, we are training people to improve soil
nianagement. Any harvesting activity will result in some
soil disturbance. Our goal is to keep the disturbance to
an acceptable level

Today, we are planting 65 per cent of the areas har
vested and preparing sites for natural regeneration on
the remaining 35 per cent. We are monitoring alt these
sites untilthey reach the **free-growing”’ stage.

Next year, we will plant
seedlings with better survival and growth than ever
before. And, with our continuing research program we
will do better with each successive year

300 million quality

We are continuing our research to improve the
quality of our new forests. We are also continuing our
efforts to provide accurate information to the public
about our forest resource

The article cited by the Sierra Club does a great
disservice to the many dedicated Forest Service and
forest industry staff involved with British Columbia's
reforestation program

Nominations requested

VICTORIA = The provincial
government is calling for nominations
to the British Columbia Round Table
on Environment and Economy

distinguished British Cotumbians who
are knowledgeable, fair-minded, and
represent a wide range of interests and
views,”” Veitch said in the release

ii

inthe

at the side of the road.

CasNews photo

Elderhostel

continued fram page C1
wegian Christmas cookery, according
to the catalogue

Some of the seniors at Lemon
Creek, many on a third, fourth, or
even eighth or I1th Elderhostel trip,
say they have taken courses in theatre
criticism and learned about Halifax’s
sailing ships

Participants are only required to at
tend one of the three classes each day,
the catalogue
Kessler’s group is assembled and ready
for the 8:30 a.m. class.

says, but most of

There are no exams or grades for
these classes but, although only a few
take notes and one woman is working
on her knitting, all are attentive
asking pointed questions and making
comments that add their personal
knowledge about the subject to the
group’s discussion and understanding

This is a holiday with some impor
tant bonuses, the hostelers say

“If you consider the cost of a
holiday, this is much less expensive and
you get to know anarea in depth,” says
Elizabeth Machatchie of Sacramento,
Calif

The hostelers say the program
allows them to go where ordinary
tourists might never go and to meet
people from the community they might

at Lemon Creek Lodge take a bre:

k from their activities

not come in contact with on a regular
holiday trip.

Some of the programs also: have
unexpected perks, such as one couples”
Scandinavian program that included
caviar and smoked salmon for break
fast

Kessler is trying Elderehostel out for
the first timethis year and there are still
some bugs to work out such as finding
community people to help with his
three courses on Doukhobor history,
logging practices in the area and the
Japanese internment camips that dot
ted the Slocan Valley during the
Second World War

But he is thrilled with the program
and the participants, and is
happy to havea chance to ease back in-
to his former profession asa teacher

And a setting such as his lodge where
the hostelers are living in homey
surroundings rather than on a college
campus is a much better setting for this
type of program, he says

“It is,” he says with tongue firmly in
cheek, “more conducive to great

he says,

group dynamics.’
The hostelers 2 to outdo
each: other as they joke after lunch
about the non-existent northern lights,
would seem toagree

still uryii

SFP lands $2M order

Richmond-based Slocan Forest
Products Ltd. has secured a $2-million
order to supply about three. million
board feet of pre-manufactured-com
ponents to Japan's biggest
housebuilder

“The order will be filled in the four
th quarter of this year and we fully ex:
pect to continue supplying these com
ponents to Sekisui House Ltd., which
builds about 65,000 homes a year,”’

said Terry Upgaard, Slocan's vice-
president of marketing

The company has developed the
Japanese_market over the past two
years and in the process has shipped
about $1 million worth of wood on a
“sample” basis, Upgaard said.

The building components — a range
of metric-sized lumber cut to very
precise lengths — will be manufac-
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Environment
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