A4 - Wednesday, October 17, 1984 - North Shore News Strictly personal by Bob Hunter HE MAIN CURRENTS affecting the future of British Columbia’s forest industry have their origins in the United States, the Third World and Japan. In the U.S., foresters are moving fairly intelligently to prepare themselves for day when Third World coun- tries have either gutted their forests beyond repair or the tury. Both these developmgents are bad news for an economy lke B.C.’s, based as it 18 so much on our forests, and so_ heavily, therefore, on such exotic Our forest fools that’s the official version. In fact, according to George Putz, writing in Wooden Boat magazine, ‘‘many reforestation § statistics are fraudulent ... large areas of India, officially designated as ‘reserve forests” or ‘reforesta- tion projects’, are actually barren of woody vegeta- tion.”’ In any event, against this critical way. First, there are lable to be 300 different species of trees all mixed together, and second, 90 per cent of the nutrients in the jungle are in the trees themselves, not the soil. This leads to the entire forest being levelled, since it is uneconomic to construct roads just to get at a handful of certain kinds of trees. Sure we do clear-cutting here, but down, there, once the trees are gone, there’s nothing left but nearly sterile muck. It won’t heal. They aren’t bless- ed, as we are, with the alder. This is one of the main reasons Japanese officials ex- pect to run out of tropical areas from which they can import hardwoods within the next couple of decades. The Armed robber strikes in Cove NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP is looking for a lone male who made off with the day’s take from a Deep Cove convenience store late Friday. The man, masked and armed with what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun, Research scientists have robbed the lone clerk in the store just before 8 p.m. Fri- day. Police say the robber then made his escape on foot and eluded police efforts to cap- ture him. Investigation into the rob- bery continues. Step out of your old FAT BODY into a slim new body have, in desperation, entirely shut down their timber ex- porting programs in order to cling to what few twigs they created a new machine that provides concentrated ex ercise on hips, buttocks, waist, abdomen and thighs stuff just won’t be there. The other impeccably logical Japanese reason for have left, eather for fuel or in a belated effort to get into manufacturing. According to Douglas Dayton, a top U.S. lumber execulive, “‘It is now safe to say that there is more hard- wood timber growing in the United States than is being cut.”” He predicts that by the 1990s, the U.S. will be a ma- jor exporter of timber to the rest of the world. (Conversely — or should | say perversely? — in B.C., we are cutting far more trees than we are planting, and thus we are cutting our economic throat.) In the area of softwoods, the U.S. is likewise expected ‘““Once the trees are gone, there’s nothing left but a nearly sterile muck. It won’t heal.’’ items as housing starts in the U.S. construction industry. Yet, at the same time, the smart moves the Yanks are making now are the kind of moves we could be making, too. The fact is that forests are dwindling at an appalling rate outside of North America. And the knowledge of this is part of the long- term American strategy. The world’s reforestation couple of million acres of new forest being planted each year, some 39.25 million acres worth of trees are being eliminated through logging, agricultural clearing, disease, infestation, fire and = acid rain. The total amount of forested area on the earth amounts to only one fifty- fourth of the planet's sur- face. Much of that is tropical such pessimism 1s that, as the situation worsens, more and more countries are closing down their sawmills and cur- tailing exports of raw timber in an effort to force im- porters to do the manufactur- ing in the country of origin. The lessons in all this for Briush Columbuans are sim- ple and straightforward. We should begin, now, to insist on nothing less that a sustain- ed yield philosophy for our forest industry. We aren't doing it. We're fools. The Americans are try- ing for it. They’re not fools. The markets for our hewed wood will be there tomu. row. while you relax. 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