Meet a SHARE Organizer vironmental lobby's handbook, "SHARE's going to put up their the B.C. SHARE movement has ties with major forest companies own facts" and bring out its sup- ·No need for Special Parks porters to make an "impression with forestry and the guys who and Reverend Sun Yung Moon's "Moonie" church and Free En- terprise Foundation. by G.L. Wright cutting along Slocan or Koot- make the decisions." He says all SHARE direc- SILVERTON Jerry enay Lakes. "Over on the coast, Detta denies allegations that tors are unpaid. Detta says he and his friends when they clearcut, it's from one have signed up "darned near ridge, down through the valley, 1,000 people" as members of the SHARE Society in the Kaslo- Meadow Creek-Slocan Valley over another ridge, and it carries on for three mountain ranges. -ij, That's a clearcut. Here, these Blewett Concerns Cont'd from Page 1 instrumental in achieving gen- area. i are just logged-off blocks." He and water from other car dump- "In a month and a half, I ~ doesn't think selective logging erally better logging practices in ing sites in the area, including the area, particularly with the think that's pretty good," he says. g and small clearcuts harm wild- Bfewett Auto Wreckers, West- Detta, a Silverton Jogger §l life habitat. ern Auto Wreckers and a site off current licensees, ATCO Lum- and trucker, believes logging, ~----------~~ Detta credits the govern- 49 Creek Road. ber and KalesnikoffLumber. conservation and recreation can Logger Jerry Detta: Who's ment and the forest service with Other residents voiced con- ATCO representative David co-exist in the Kootenays with- looking after the parks? cerns about burning wood waste. Duncan said the company plans combining its parks program out the need for specially desig- with its forest wilderness pro- Blewett resident Mike Nazaroff, a mbc of clearcut and selective nated parks or protected wilder- a 90,000 hectare White Grizzly gram and presenting all pro- owner of AM. Cedar, a post- logging over the next five years. ness. area to protect bear habitat. "It's posals en bloc. He says this was and-rail log salvage operation, The annual allowable cuts for He says SHARE directors an umealistic request," he says. done purposefully "to scare said he burns waste wood five or both A TCO and Kalesnikoff are will be telling companies like The provincial forest service everybody out here about what's six times a year. "This is a mar- currently being reviewed by the Slocan Forest Products: "If you says the proposed White Grizzly really going on." ginal operation. I'm utilizing Ministry of Forests. clean up your act - if you do a area contributes about 16,500 "Government can't afford" wood products not used in the Other concerns included really good job logging - we cubic metres a year to the an- to look after all the parks we al- past. People are welcome to the effects of clearcutting, Jog- won't need any more park lands. nual harvest and Slocan Forest ready have, Detta says. "They're come and take the waste for ging on private land, water It's just that simple." Products "has invested consider- not clean, they're not sanitized, firewood, free of charge." quality, and potential traffic According to Detta, local ably" on road construction there. they're not laid out properly, Smienk said the ROCK air hazards due to logging trucks SHARE members are especially Detta has no time for and they're not maintained." quality committee is attempting turning on public roads. NOP concerned about the creation of people who fear extensive clear- Taking a page from the en- to get together all the ap- candidate Corky Evans con- propriate government agencies, gratulated residents for what he including the Ministry of Health termed their "constructive ap- and Ministry of Environment, to proach" to resource issues. Australia5UN5HfNEgAYNURSERY take action on the issue. Bill Hamilton, speaking for There was no representative the Blewett Watershed Commit- present from the Department of R.R.3, N..t.- 221-43(.4 tee, said the committee has been Highways. <~H,.,,,,,.,..~P~J 999: *call ... !J(oka.nu, f' £LP,A;!f,~.,t;!,'~: $111Nf) 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Wehave/rowna widevarietyof apple/rees induding rareantiquevarielies an dderaw/es.Thesetreeswillbe freshdugfor thisoccasion. - - CJ'l,Qgd Balter St. .. 351 Nelson. Wealsohavefloweringuabs,walnuts, Discountsfor 10 or more andhedging plants. 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