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Forestry

editorial

‘full of rhetoric’

Dear Editor:

The News Viewpoint of Dec. 11,
1988 cries for a response. Editorial
comment, public discussion and
media coverage of forestry and
land use issues in British Columbia
are long overdue.

However, as in any public
debate, rhetorical content must be
scrutinized to divide fact from
hyperbole. Your comment on the
state of B.C.*s forests, land use
issues and the impact of the forest
sector on the well-being of present
and future generations is rich with
excessive rhetoric.

Some of your statements deserve
the illumination of another point
of view.

The Stein Valley is not the last
unlogged watershed in southwest-
em B.C. The Stein is the largest
unlogged watershed relatively near
to Vancouver. Take a look at a
map of British Columbia.

Furthermore, controlled
development of the watershed in-
corporating forestry, cultural
heritage values, wilderness and
recreation — in a plan to manage
the watershed — is in no way
analogous to destruction. A ma-
jority of residents in the region en-
compassing the Stein approve of
developmetit of the valley. The
Forest Ministry is responsible for
management of the Stein Vailey

Sawlog

and should address the concerns of
local residents by beginning
development of the watershed.

Many communities in British
Columbia depend on development
of the forest resource for their
social and economic well-being.
Logging alters the landscape and
while openings created by clear-cut
logging are visible in satellite
photographs, so are towns, cities,
highways, farms, vast areas of se-
cond growth forest and almost all
the works of humankind. It is even
Teported that newspapers can be
read from sophisticated satellites
circling the heavens.

It is far too simplistic to write
off concerns for meaningful
employment as the machinations
of reactionaries. A more construc-
tive approach would be to discuss
the coexistence of values and the
needs of different publics in B.C.
that are being met through the wise
use of ur forests.

In the case of the Stein Valley, if
focal citizens, the Indian move-
ment, wilderness advocates, the
forest industry and the provincial
government pull together,
everyone’s needs can be addressed
through developing the valley.
Patrick

Moresby

Coasalting
(Forest laductry Stein Task Force)
North Vancouver

quality

not established

Dear Editor:

A Dec. 11, 1988, editorial
touched on an instance involving a
logging company that Icft enough
material ‘‘to build 2,600 houses.’'
I am of an opinion that one can
come to such a conclusion only by
making some flawed assumptions.

Only if the 131,424 cubic metres
of material to which you refer
consisted of sawlogs would it be
suitable for home construction. It
is from sawlogs that the solid
wood products that include
lumber, plywood, shingles and
millwork are derived.

To my knowledge no one has
claimed that the abandoned mate-
rial, in the instance to which you
refer or any other for that matter,
was without exception of sawlog
quality. There is therefore no basis

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for assuming the material was
anything but low value pulp logs.

Gn close inspection one would
undoubtedly find that very little of
the 131,424 cubic metres would
have provided tumber of suitable
length, dimension, quality,
strength or species for home con-
struction.

One could concede that the ma-
terial referred to would provide
enough wood chips to produce
some 20,000 tonnes of pulp but,
unfortunately for the iogger, wood
chips produced as a by-product of
lumber manufacture provide an
abundant and cheap source. Only
when wood chips are in short sup-
ply can wood chips produced from
logging residues hope to compete.
R.K. Vivian
West Vancouver

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