4 — Sunday, October 1, 1989 - North Shore News THE LINKS between the struggle in Ontario’s Temagami wilderness to save the last stands of old-growth pines, and the forestry wars thai rage in B.C., from Lynn Canyon to Clayoquot Sound, are obvious. The trees are worth money dead. And even when they’re not worth much, the land they stand on spells bucks for developers. In B.C., we have witnessed in our lifetimes the pillaging of a resource whose true value we are just beginning to appreciate. The obscene profits of the logging cartel may make their shareholders happy, but, turned on its head, the bottom line is a graph tracing a staggering swath of destruction. A war has been waged against our forests since the white man came. Today, he is closing in on the last of it, leaving immense wounds in the earth, with mere second- or third-growth garbage forests growing up in its wake, if anything grows up at all. Clear-cutting leaves a terrain as mutilated as the no-man’s lands of the first World War. Sometimes I think what is going on in the battle between en- vironmentalists and log- gers/developers is nothing less crit- ical to evolution than the contests that were fought between Homo sapiens and Cro-Magnon. Certainly it is a war over hegemony, with the tree-destroyers having been in the position of superpowers so long they cannot believe that they are being serious- ly challenged by pipsqueaks sing- ing songs, hanging in hammocks from trees, chaining themselves to bulldozers, and even going to the extreme of burying themselves up to their necks in the ground in the path of those bulldozers. The connection between events in the forests of B.C. and those in Ontario? Almost simultaneously in places seemingly as remote from each other as Temagami and Tofino, the last stands in defence of the natural forests are having to be taken. These are not battles that can be left to fight a generation from now. That will be far too late. We are down to the wire. Mobile park whooped it up A PHOTO of a local “‘Saga of the Old West’’ event ran in the Wed- nesday, Sept. 20 issue of the North Shore News with incorrect infor- mation in the caption. The event was organized by res- idents of the Capilano Mobile Home Park, not by the Capilano Motor Court. Dancing and western-style food were enjoyed in the mobiie home park’s clubhouse. ‘Booze who’ on the N. Shore RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in the following fines and penalties for drinking and driving related offences. ° - S6UNSELLOR TRAINING” a INTENSIVE WEEX ‘ Oct. 16-20 9 A.M. - 4 PM. § The Director of CT! 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Upon completion, Lawman wenn econ ry and LC ‘B “e Experience Counts B.C. lucked out by being at the far side of the continent when the much as they approach life in the huge federation they all inhabit: with an intense regional focus. Ask an average guy in Toronto if he has heard of the Carmanah or even the Stein Valley, and he could no more answer yes than he could tell you the name of a single B.C. cabinet minister. The situation is easily reversed if you asked a westerner to identify Temagami, at least until perhaps last week, when the blockade of the Red Squirrel Road became na- tional news. Yet both regions are caught up in the same nightmare. It is, of One young man chained himself with a bike lock around the neck to a bulldozer — so effectively that a cop with wire-cutters couldn’t get him loose.’’ - course, a pan-Canadian phenome- Europeans landed. Yet even in the blessed Cordillera, only 9.3 per cent of original old-growth forest remains. In Ontario, they wasted it all ex- cept for slightly less than one per .cent. Temagarni represents that last, tiny place. Canadians, it has to be said, ap- proach their conservation crusades non. The simple-minded ‘‘hewers of wood” have run amuck with modern technology. By deadline time, 57 people had been arrested in the Temagami. I was forced to leave, due to time constraints, by the third day. But in two short days I saw more examples of courage, com- Dennis Guinan Derek Cave Martha Konig ae Organ and Tissue Donation Talk about #. with your next of kin Our years of experience handling injury and accident claims will help you obtain the your case deserves. ¢ Free Consultation Percentage Fees Available © We will limit our fees where aromas of pastries and _ ty cookies, butter and 2 sugar and chocolate and cream. Cakes for occasions, doughnuts for fun...Fresh- baked goodies today, and every day, at the Market that’s more! 1 wr vs Open 7 days a week, 9:30 am to 6:30 pm. Friday ’til 9:00 pm. Réstaurants open later. Phone: 985-6261 mitment and intelligence than I had witnessed in many a year. One young man chained himself with a bike lock around the neck to a bulldozer — so effectively that a cop with wire-cutters couldn’t get him loose. They had to bring in a truck with an acetylene torch, drape the man’s shirt over his head and keep dousing him with water while they cut off the section of the bulldozer he had been attached to. And on the second day of the blockade, four people had themselves buried in the ground. The police made no attempt to ar- rest them. The problem of digging an unwilling person out of hard, packed earth, is formidable, if your intention is to not hurt him. The tactic was effective, to say the least. I highly recommend its use in future anti-logging battles. The night before I left Temagami, { sat around a camp- fire on the edge of Wakimika Lake with a couple of dozen people. Overhead, the most incredible display of Northern Lights I have seen since I was a kid in Manitoba unravelled across the sky, perfor- ming a ghostly luminous dance. A guitarist started singing an oid Bob Dylan favorite, and we all joined in... “I feel like I’m knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door...” It wasn’t just a protest. It WAS a crusade. Save the Temagami! Save Clayoquot Sound! Save the Nass! Save Kispiox! Save Stuart Lake! Save the Laird! Save the Car- manah! Save the Stein! Save Lynn Canyon! Save it all, I say. While we cane