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RESPONSE TO BOB HUNTER

Forestry practices defended

Dear Editor:

T must respond to Bob Hunter’s
most offensive and misleading ar-
ticle of Dec. 18 in which he pre-
tends to interpret the auditor
general’s report on forestry.

I have read the report. Kenneth
Dye was critical only of the federal
government’s lack of controls to
see that the federal/provincial
funds were well spent. Dye in-
dicated that the Canadian Forestry
Service did not have adequate
follow-up to see if the plantations
survived adequately, or if work
was being done on a_ priorized
basis.

Dye was not critical of the work
itself, or of forest matuagement
practices, particularly in British
Columbia. Indeed, in B.C. the

FRDA program has been an
outstanding

success and the

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R.F.P.

Touche-Ross report can attest to
that.

Hunter interjects his own opi-
Nion (such as ‘‘forestry
bureaucrats have utterly
mismanaged our timberlands’’ or
“more often than not inappropri-
ate tree stock is planted’’) and
leads the reader to believe such
Statements are part of Dye's
report. That is not so. That's
nowhere in Dye’s report.

Our forest management prac-
tices in British Columbia are as
good or better than those practised
in Sweden, Germany, New
Zealand or Chile. When we con-
vert all of our old decadent forests
into new beautiful dynamic rot-
free second growth trees, there will
no longer be that ‘‘devastation”’
following logging.

Furthermore, forest companies
are not ‘‘sneaky’’ when they leave
old growth along the roads. That is
being done because it’s a gov-
ernment requirement. I would
much rather replace those old trees
with a new forest for all to see —
look at the beautiful second
growth forest on the road to
Cowichan Lake, Campbell River
or Sechelt. Some day all our
forests will be that appealing and
magnificent.

On the coast on our Tree Farm
Licence, the company for which I
work plants four trees for each one
harvested. To state that B.C. is
similar to countries where there is

; . . cd . .
Bert Wickham
F.2.0.C. C.L.U.

R.F.P.

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ing and downright fallaciops.

If Bob Hunter ever returns to
British Columbia, I would like to
introduce him to some silviculture
foresters — he will be astounded to
see the forest management prac-
tices, especially on Tree Farm
Licences.

It’s too bad that your readers
may believe that Hunter's state-
ments were contained in Dye’s an-
nual report. That is sneaky repor-
ting. Some writers should adhere
to a code of ethics similar to that
practised by professional foresters.

Mr. Hunter, you’re no Dye!

W.B. Gayle, RPF
Vancouver

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