Se Tee eT {eur ni eye os DO eee etn cite ener ne ORT Swe Tea Weather: Rainy and windy Sunday and Tuesday with highs to 8°C. Monday, cloudy with Travelwise: 34 Make your trip a worry free holiday. Showers. Highs to 6°C. : "$200,000 worth of 600-year-old cedar trees are’ ‘being harvested in the Seymour and Capilano River watersheds. '- ‘The .Greater Vancouver , Regional District. : AGVRD) | forestry department: current ly harvests approximately 100,000 cubic metres of their “annual alloted 200,000 cubic . metre allowable cut = from the two. North Shore and the Coquitlam watersh- edi areas. Rd Hamaguchi, ad- ministrater of watershed management for sin GVRD, forest: maniagement nee that was begun i in: 1960. >The H hi ‘employs approximately 60 workers for 10 months each year. LUMBER PREPARED. All lumber cut in the 360 square-mile area is taken to ~the GVRD!s. North Van- . couver booming yard at the “foot of ‘Riverside Drive ‘Where it is. sorted, boomed -- and readied for sale. 7 ‘The GVRD is annually censed to cut between six nd. eight Business ........... 29 Classified Ads.......41 Fashion............ 13 Lifestyies...........33 Mailhox.............7 15-:hectare © Hamaguchi said. Miss Manners.......36 blocks’? within the three restricted areas. Ouly one-third of the total watershed area is earmarked for logging, Hamaguchi ad- ded. Though revenues of ap- proximately $200,000 earned from the annual harvest go towards financing the maintenance of the three _water supply operations, the logging is, according to Hamaguchi, more a forest management than a profit- making venture. TREES DETERIORATE Ninety-five per cent of the, trees harvested by the GVRDY are 251 years and. older, ty water.’’ TV Listings..........30 What's Going On.....40 “Like anything else, trees deteriorate with age. Hemlock and balsam are not much good after 200 years; cedar last to maybe 300, but even then they begin to rot at the centre.’” Such grand old ‘timber, though testimony to forest growth of bygone eras, is more prone to insect infesta- tion and fire than younger timber. The older trees are therefore’ more detrimental than beneficial to overall forest health, according to — Hamaguchi. “‘We feel that by properly managing these areas we will have: healthier tree stands, and, ultimately, better quali- ince” NEWS photo Stuart Davis ‘LOGS from the Seymour Watershed are taken, sorted and put into booms at the Greater Vancouver Regional District yard. Logs range from this size to giants, eight feet in diameter with sections weighing close to 30 tons. 3 - Sunday, January 19, 1986 ~ North Shore News NV worker murdered VANCOUVER City Police have found no motive in the murder of 2 Vancouver man who worked in North Vancouver. Zarko Vukorep, 42, .was found stabbed Tuesday evening, making his murder the second in Vancouver for 1986. Vukorep, who lived at 1529 East Third Avenue in Vancouver, worked at % & S Painting and Decorating in North Vancouver. Police have no suspects in the murder of Vukorep. Thief caught red-handed A NORTH Vancouver thief was caught with ‘his fingers in the pie Wednesday. North Vancouver RCMP arrested. the man after responding to.a call that‘ indicated a break-in was in progress. ; ' The man was found hiding inside the 2400 block Hayseed Place residence. Police conducted a search of the area for a second man believed to be involved in the robbery attempt, but found no one. : The first man was taken into custody and tater released, but police say charges are pending. Police said it appeared the culprits were unable to remove any items from the house. Rock slide site cleared | REGULAR TRAFFIC. flow has resumed on the Squamish Highway following a slide that buried the road beneath 180 dumptruck loads of rock.- The slide, which stopped traffic at 8 p.m. Wednes- day night, was cleared to one lane traffic by 7 a.m Thursday morning and two- way traffic by 5 p.m. Thursday. : Highways crews worked all night and all day clear- ing away the debris. Ministry of Highways regional director Dan Doyle said a geotechnical crew scaled the slide site and pulled down a few loose rocks, but reported the site to be . fairly stable. But Highways crews will bolt in some overhanging “rock above where the slide rock was dislodged. “The rock fell from low down,’’ said Doyle, “leave ing a bit of an overhang. So we are bolting the over hanging rock back to the parent rock.”” Crews will drill through the overhanging rock ‘into the parent rock, then secure it with a metal rod and a. bolt. The rod is grouted, or glued into the parent rock and overhang is secured by a bolt. Man jailed for rifle shooting A SECHELT man was sentenced to three and a half years in jail after being convicted of shooting ata man with a rifle. Barry Strong, 32, was convicted by Judge J.B. Paradis in North Vancouver provincial court for discharging a fire arm with intent to wound after he shot at William John Garn in Sechelt September 19, 985. He was also convicted of setting fire to a garbage can near Garn’s residence and assaulting a Sechelt woman with a baseball, He received a six-month sentence for each of these charges. Crown counsel did not proceed with an additional charge of attempted murder.