NOTE

Sockeye had maximum run in 1993 (blue line chart below) so looks healthy; chum and coho runs were highest in 1962 & 1959 respectively – needs more info.

LOWE INLET

----Lowe Inlet is well known for its sport fishing on lakes and wildlife viewing possibilities. FISS literature says good deal investigative work about enhancing sockeye. A DFO escapement database shows Lowe was once a good sockeye producer. Earlier logging may be the culprit, as something happened in mid-1970s.

TSIMTACK SYSTEMS & Food Fishery

Small Business etc

Skeena Estuary and small business

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/SB_Smith1.htm

Elders are watching – Kennedy and Skeena salmon

Sacred Legacy

The value of “zone 1” (Skeena Estuary) in 1989 paper was seen and its fate was foreseen as a public land use decision. (The LRMP is yet to be held – so let the logging begin).

Banks Island and other values

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/SB_Banks1.htm

HEL but no taking uplands

Note all the salmon streams

Note Mount Gransell which has 600 meter contour

Mid banks a closer look

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/SB_Mid_BanksProposal.htm

An experiment in regeneration

Tuck Inlet and using Helicopter logging =25c

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/SB_Tuck%20Inlet.htm

Hypothesis: we are seeing cheap stumpage ($.25?) for “helicopter” logging used to offset other costs.which may be actually putting our lands at increased risk is not acceptable

Silver Creek as test

in 2000

IFP FDP (amendment) 2000 --Princess Royal

False hope – 1999 overturned on technicality then re-submitted

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/ifp_fdp_2000.htm

IFP FDP 2000 no text but shows areas concern

Knolkmolks

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/Ifp_knokmolks1.htm

ditto Scotia http://www.princerupert.com/economy/Ifp_Skeena_main_5-2000.htm

and Skeena Scotia http://www.princerupert.com/economy/Ifp_Skeena_ayton_5-2000.htm

West Fraser to Triumph

Public meeting

http://www.princerupert.com/wft_licence%20transfer.htm

Wedeene and NC Timber (scan of documents)

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/wedeene_file.htm

West Fraser licence transfer to Triumph approved

August 31, 2000 cabinet approves

Coucil rejects WFT bid to sell to Triumph

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/wft%20letter%20to%20council%20and%20response.htm

Regional TFLs maps 2000

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/kalum_lrmp2.htm

1999

CWH previous look

Dated intro to CWH w endangered ecosystems table http://www.princerupert.com/nature/NorthCoast_Rainforests.htm

North Coast Timber supply review late 1999

1999 TSR NC “only 6%

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/nc_timber_supply_review_a.htm

Deconstructing

Basic Premise of "status quo": AAC drives BC's economy: fiber flow causes jobs, which lead to income, etc.

We lost 550 jobs with no change AAC

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/NC_Timber_Supply_Review_B2.htm

TSR Kalum 1999

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/mof_kalum_tsa_1999.htm

Study in Contrasts from 1996; from fear in Harcurt years to no problem in 1999 as VQO, green-up’ etc trashed

Good map TFL 1 & 41 whil TSA only 450 m³ the total all 1.5M m³

IFP FDP 1999

Suggestions:

1) create a process to show the public the results- good or bad
2) get higher level plans in place (marbled murrelet, ungulates & grizzly)
3) get on with the LRMP- to get public's direction for public's forests

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/interfor_plan_1999.htm

And Princess Royal

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/Princess_Royal_NW.htm

Concerns: slope stability, habitat, cut rate

Ayton – Scotia 1999

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/ayton-scotia-ifp.html

Summary: Oops, there goes another unlogged watershed: Ayton Creek. Slope stability is a concern, as is the rapid clear-cutting of this small watershed. The river view shoreline between Scotia and Ayton is to be logged "selectively". "Trust us"

Khatada 1999

Here is one of few that was saved

Khatada Lake---- good-bye

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/Khatada-IFP-99.htm

IFP in Ecstall area ‘99

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/ecstall-ifp-2-99.htm

TimberWest as model? Restructure

Summary: TimberWest bought into BC at the top of the market only to be hit by Asian Flu. So they hustle their stocks by re-interpreting tax laws, pay themselves well, and lay off their workers. All done in the name of market rationality

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/timberwest%20forest_corp.htm

1998 & Older material

1998 Article on coastal forest industry boom

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/coastal_bc_98.htm

This page re-purposes TimberWest (February 1998) prospectus in order to put high value coastal wood in perspective

See especially the graph for Japanese squares

Doman ca 1998

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/doman.htm

IFP in Ecstall Hayward 5/98?

Back in the early days—B&W aerial photos for figs

http://www.princerupert.com/nature/skeena-ecstall.htm

Windsor same era http://www.princerupert.com/nature/Skeena-windsor.htm

Paper jobs

Premise AAAC drives economy = jobs

AAC drives BC's economy: fiber flow causes jobs, which lead to income, etc.

Table companies ’97 – Avenor, Repap etc

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/links1.htm

Pulp to 1996

http://www.princerupert.com/economy/pulpover.htm