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Jobs AND scenery

Dear Editor:
Recently a letter from one
of your North Shore readers

contained some: misinforma--

tion about Meares Island and
the’ plan to harvest a part of
the timber on the tiny island
near Tofino, off the west
coast of Vancouver Island.
There are two serious, factual
errors.

The letter. described the
old-growth: wilderness and
other resources on the Island
and then said:

“Yet MacMillan Bloedel

: has been given permission to
clear-cut 90 per cent of the
Island within the next twenty
years!"”

The fact is that MacMillan
Bioedel has been given per-
_fnission by the Provincial

Government to harvest. (and

“. geforest) 36 per cent of the

sland . within the. next 36
: years. That is one per cent a
--yénr for.36 years.

atches of 30-40 hectares
square will be logged and ad-
-jacent areas will rot. be logg-
ed-until the harvested area
has © been reforested and

Generous

“sreens up’’.

The: permission was
granted after a three year
public participation process
in whict environmentalists,
fishermeii, local residents,
‘Tepresentatives of the forest
_industry,.the Provincial and
Federal Governments, and
other interested parties, had
an opponiimit; %% present
their views.

The government-approved
plan provides for conserva-
tion — that is, wise use — of
all the resources on the Island
including fisheries, wildlife
watershed, recreation,
tourism and forests.

The letter went on to claim
that the Provincial Govern-
ment granted MacMillan
Bloedel “‘the right to destroy
a unique part of our natural
heritage, and an essential
part of Indian culture.’”

First, there. is nothing
‘“inique” about the timber.
on Meares ‘Island. Indian

_ lands have been logged, and
the forest industry logged
other parts of the island in
1957 and 1972..There has

been & mine on the Island as
well. Morenmver, there are
many, many other islands
and areas on the west coast of
Vancouver Island with
original-growth timber
stands such as those on
Meares Island. These have
never been harvested and
there are no plans to do so.
For example, original-growth
stands are dominant in
Strathcona Park and Pacific
Rim Park. There are also 13
ecological reserves on Van-
couver Island. alone, and
another 85 in other parts of
the province. ‘Unlike Meares,
these are truly virgin forests
which have never been
harvested.. ;

Secondly, the harvesting
plan does not include native
Indian reserve lands on the
Island. Their heritage will not
be affected. The plan,
however, does save 240 jobs.

In short, we can have jobs
and scenery.

G.L. Ainscough, R.P.F.
Vice President and Chief
Forester’

Metric is not

‘dictatorial’

“hedDeaie Editor :

‘: On behalf of the British

Columbia: Lung: ‘Association; *~

_ Et
: port. “given tox “the, 1984

‘Although the?: campaign

“We must. metrify or
‘petrify;’’” this “was ‘ not”
‘ phrase dreamed up by. the

Canadian government’. ‘but.
. appeared, in some. United”

‘States ‘technical, Meuitica

oes ‘not end. offi icially- until. ei;

nuary. 31,.the British Col-

mbia Lung Association has -..

: British: Columbia are metric, --
hat is, their machinery was -

had. its most; successful’, ~year

time. Probably about ‘ninety :

percent of. ships . visiting

“metriésizes and enginecring

os province. To date, campaign

contributions are: up: 1S per-
cent’ over last years’. returns,

Seal Campaign

-“enable:the British: Columbia.
“Lung: Association to provide ,
much needed support to vital.

. ‘medical research projects,
‘programs of public and:) pr
_» fessiona!: education, ° “school
: education programs to co!

' «vince school ‘children’ not ‘to

‘take up the cigarette smoking

habit, and informing adults

‘about the hazards of air

pollution, tobacco and oc-

cupational lung diseases.
Once again, thank you all

very much,” °

‘R.W. King

President,

B. (on Lung Association.

sGAieee .

ata is metric. This would in-

ficate that ‘msot of the world .

the: metric. system...
Canada, which‘ ‘exports thirty -
per. cent of its GNP, is.

- therefore’ simply adopting a.

world-wide system of weights :-

and. measures in: eswitching tof

Ses.

he. metric system.

The government of a coiin- :

selected:. not only.’
overn. bit”: to”: ‘lead Jf it

“perceives the. interest.‘of. the!
‘is. - being: served, -°

“country
There must “be ‘a’ standard
system: of. weights
measures in any country and
to insist on the use of this
standard .is no. more dic-
‘tatorial than insisting that all
motorists drive on the right
hand side of the road. If we
revert to the imperial system

and:

it will be-only a-matter, of
time before the whole exer-

a ‘ cise-of ‘switching to metric
will have to _be‘done again,
“Richard W. Slater

North Vanconver

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3 ‘Deep Cove. N. Van.

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