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immediate vicinity of Terrace is about to be thrown wide open. The mountainous country. overlooking the west

see major logging and recreational developments as

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Skeena Cellulose announced last week plans to bridge the Skeena from St. Croix Creek 25 kilometers east of Terrace across to Pitman. The $1.5 million project will give the company access to a Forest License that will provide it: with 100,000 cu- bic meters of timber per year for 20 years.

The license is separate from

‘ and over and above SCI’s an-

nual allowable cut on Tree Farm License 1. . SCI representative Pat Ogawa

said last week that the company

is currently in the process of awarding the bridge-building

‘contract to Neco, a Vancouver- based engineering firm. He said

their intent is to take advantage of low water flows that generally occur in the river during Janu- ary and February to get the structure in place,

‘We expect to be hauling wood out of there in the spring of 1989,”? Ogawa said.

The tree species composition in the area is primarily old growth overmature hemlock and balsam, much like the forest in other parts of the company’s holdings around Terrace.

The new bridge will also bene- fit smali logging firms who work the Kalum Timber Supply Area. District forest manager Gerry Dodd says the Forest Service

will allocate wood equal to 20 -

percent of the Skeena Cellulose annual cut in the West Skeena area for the ministry’s Small Business Enterprise Program, which will make an additional 20,000 cubic meters per year available,

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World class recreational area planned The quiet and idyllic coun- try on the east side of the Skeena above Cedarvale will be the site of an ambitious hiking trail and lodge net-

work development in the next &

few years, according to Sev-

en Sisters Ventures, Inc., a |

Vancouver-based company whose vice-president is a for- mer Northwest resident, Art Bates.

In a statement issued this

month, the company says it

is close. to reaching an agree- ment with the Gitksan Wet’suwet’an Tribal Council and the Gitwangak Band on a

- land usage proposal.

The ‘project is massive in scale, with plans for cutting hiking trails into and through the alpine areas on the upper slopes of the mountains. west of Cedarvale.

dation are proposed at -vari- ous points along the trails. One trail indicated on

maps supplied by Seven Sis- .

ters Ventures shows a trail following Lorne. Creek to its source and then descending through the pass north of

Wesach (Goat) Mountain to

the head of” _ Kitsumkalum Lake.

The company undertook consultation with the Gitk- san Wet’suwet’an Tribal Council because the area of

-proposed development falls

almost wholly within the Council’s comprehensive land claim. A statement is-

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This is. the view from St. Croix Creek, 25 kilometers upriver from Terrace, where Skeena Cellulose plans to bridge the Skeena and get access to two millon cubic meters of timber

sued by Gitwangak chief councillor Glen Williams in- dicated optimism that an agreement in principle will be signed by both parties in the near future.

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“This is the first time a prospective developer has approached the band with plans and the desire to work together,’’ Williams noted. The two sides have been in- volved in discussions since March.

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