Peiday, duds 24) PORT Notth Store Sews Bob Hunter @ strictly personal @ UNLIKE MY esteemed and honor-encrusted colleague, Doug (oP Bull’) Collins, Pim very happs indeed that South Moresby has been saved from the chainsaw. Twas up a few sears ago and was, The evervone else who visits there, filled with a delicious, healing awe dust to be meng those lefts. ancient trees, to walk alone these dong black sand beaches. Basically. is a spiritual thing. e= INS vranddaughter may even take her grand hifdren to South Moresby someday and seo what it th that d can see todas. and what the Haida could see thousands of years ago, frowill, by the was, hardly have changed at all, just as ito has “there is much more to preserving pristine wilderness than Just all this talk about tourism bucks. The real point isn't Just to suck foreign currency from visiting Yanqutis, it is to guarantee that my kids, and srandkid, will be able to experience the awe-evoking majesty of a primal forest that has not been reduced to stumps.’ This will, of course, sound like nonsense to a lot of people, but to many others — fortunately, a section of the population whose time is finally arriving ~ this will be perfectly understandable. Certainly, the Haida know ex- actly what ['m talking about. The drive to preserve as much of nature as possible is the most important undertaking of our era. And, again, the Haida understood that perfectly too. Their observation that ‘‘we do not rob the children unborn” has, amazingly enough, passed into. mainstream Canadian thought. Well, nearly. In any event, there is much more to preserving pristine wilderness than just all this talk about tourism bucks. The real point isn’t just to suck foreign currency from visiting Yanquis, it is to guarantee that my kids, and grandkid, will be able to experi- ence the awe-evoking majesty of’ a primal forest that has not been reduced to stumps. Thanks to Brian Mutroney and Tory environment minister Tom McMillan — praise due, for sure! hardly changed since the last Ice Age. Being able to experience a sense of continuity with the earth like this is a rare-enough gift already. By the time the world’s popu- lation doubles, it will be so priceless a privilege that figures like a couple of hundred million dollars to have purchased it will seem absurdly cheap, like buying Long Island for trinkets and beads. The mischievous thought oc- curs to me that Svend Robinson, the Haida’s ‘“‘White Swan."* who is Spt. Colfins’s favorite bere noire, just might turn out to be the next federal environment minister, Let us presume that would cast a different light on the upcoming battles to save the Stcin and the Stikine, especially if Bill Vander Zalm is replaced by Mike Har- court as well, It could all happen, folks. . The argument, by the way, Doug, that the tourists will never make it to Lyell Island anyway, so why bother setting up a na- tional park, is a short-term view. The same argument was made, in AST gave the WUT wars TOW Temote ta eser atifdet any mean melul gamers ot wisilars, Kho know. wher find of ihe f PORES OF Rupert sifl depend etcondic- we'll dave byt en demand tor revolute: oo ahead. owe may all just aty tp there on weekends ourselves. Don't say it can’t buppen. Jack Munro, who may be a man’s man and all ot that, will alse be compost by thea. and the millions of people who will go to South Moresby from now undl the end of time, including many hairy-chested men, will certainly not know — of care — about a handful of logging jubs lost back near the end of the 20th century. Look how overcrowded our parks are already in summer! A lot of people, fike me, don't bother trying to visit them any more until the summer holidays are over. I haven't been to either the Stikine or the Stein River valleys yet, but 1 plan to. 1 have seen videos and photographs and posters, which are part of the in- tensified lobbying to preserve these two regions, as well as South Moresby. You'll be glad to know, Doug, that a group called Friends of The Stikine is headquartered right here on our doorstep, head- ed up by May Murray. 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