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KINGSTON -- A senior forest industry official has lashed out at what he terms "environ- mental extremists" whose lifestyle "permits the luxury of fantasizing about matters relating to the wise use of our for- ests'. Speaking to a lunch- eon meeting of the Ro- tary Club here E.F. Boswell, senior vice president, E.B. Eddy Forest Products, said such people were creat- ing "social. disruptions and upheavals for the people of the North in ways that verge on the criminal."' : Mr. Boswell 'was speaking today. on behalf of the Ontario Forest Industries. Asso- ciation, of which he is a director. The speaker drew a distinction between what he called "the true conservationist" and: "that breed of North American that fails to balance the competing interests of resource development and envi- ronmental preserva- tion, known as the en- vironmental extrem- ist". He said it was this latter group that nega- ; tively impacts the forest industry and forests of Ontario, and is creating a climate for further withdrawal of product- ive forest land. He asked if it was fair to dismiss the desires and needs of the people of Red Lake, Sioux Look- out, Haileybury or any other Northern Ontario town "to the skilled legal and _ bureaucratic performance of the privileged environment- al minority". Mr. Boswell told his audience that in Ontario "we have allowed 45 per cent of the productive forestland to be alienat- ed for non-productive reasons ... and the envi- ronamentalists are ask- ing for hundreds of thousands of acres more". _ He cited the case of the:Quetico Park which, he said, the Ontario Government decided several years ago under extreme pressure from environmental groups, to take 1,750 'square miles of forest land fora . wilderness park. This action, he noted, locked up forever mer- chantable wood repre- senting 100,000 tons of annual newsprint prod- TERRACE BAY The Community Church Serving all Protestants Sunday Service - 11:15 a.m. with Sunday School at the same time Rev. Brian Bigelow, 'Minister Assembly Good Friday Service 11:00 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service 11:00 a.m. followed: by Pancake Breakfast Sunday Service - 11:00 Sunday Evening Ser- vice - 7:00 p.m. Pastor Barry Fellinger St. Martin's. Roman Catholic Church Mass Saturday - 7:00 p-m. Mass Sunday - 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Confessions Saturday 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Father Kenneth Pottie Holy Gospel Lutheran Mission Sunday Service 7:30 p-m. Birchwood Terrace Chapel Richard Klein - Pastor SCHREIBER Holy Angel's Roman Catholic Church p-m. Mass Sunday - 10:00 Schreiber 12:00 - Rossport 12:00 Pays Plat, first Sunday of every month. St. Andrew's United Church Sunday Service - 9:45 a.m. with Sunday School at the same time Rev. Brian Bigelow, Minister Grace Baptist Church Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Sunday Service 11:00 a.m. Terrace Bay Gospel . Mass Saturday - 7:15. Church Directory Sunday Evening Ser- vice 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting - 7:00 p.m. Rev. Jim Johnson, Pastor St. John's Anglican Church Sunday -9:30 Holy Com- munion 11:00 Parish Eucharist and Sunday School Monday - 2:00 p.m. Birchwood, Holy Eucharist Wednesday - 10:00 a.m. Prayer Eucharist Father Timothy Delaney, Rector Easter Services Thurs. March 31 6:00 p.m. - Seder Supper, Church Hall 8:00 p.m. - Holy Euchar- ist and Stripping of the Alter April Ist 10:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer 11:00 a.m. - Litany 12:00 noon - Ante- Communion 1:00. p.m. - Evening Prayer It is customary to have times of silent prayer and meditation upon God's Word between the services. Feel free to take part in any or all of these ser- vices. April 2 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil and first Eucharist of Easter. April 3 Easter Day 9:30 a.m. - Holy Com- munion 11:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist and Baptism 7:00 p.m. - Evening prayer The Church of Jesus Christ of . Latter-Day Saints meets at 60 East Grove Crescent, Ter- race Bay 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning uction -- an annual loss to the provincial econo- my of $552-million. "As residents of On- tario used Quetico Park for only 13,000 person days per year over the last three years, you can see that for every resi- dent user day, the gross provincial product is re- duced by $4,000." Mr. Boswell said the government action also wiped out 1200 jobs: in the Quetico Park re- gion. In the main body of his speech to the King- ston: audience Boswell said, "Tracing the movement to alienate "resources from the pro- duction process is rela- tively simple -- it goes back before Roman times. But effectively in North America, in the - 19th century, the move- ment. started with a group based in the aris- tocracy of New York and Boston who came to be known as the "mug- wumps.'" They were very critical of crass- ness and the business values of the plutocracy. From the mugwumps came Henry Adams and Teddy Roosevelt, who was the driving force of the Conservative era. And later, in the 1930's a group of twel- ve authors in the south banded themselves. to- gether known as the Nashville Fugitives. They poured abuse on industry, praised the wilderness ethic and scorned science and technology. While not successful in getting the South to reject industry -- they did gather a large following amongst the highly educated aris-: tocracy of the day. More recently with every poll and survey taken (including the Sierra Club's polling of its own members), we clearly see that environ- mentalism draws its support from the upper middle class. Academ- ics, journalists and up- per income suburban- ites are the life and blood of the movement. Support comes when in- comes reach $40,000 and tails off again at $80,000. Gentlemen - the comfort of life style allows these people the luxury of fantasizing about matters relating to the wise use of our forests, but, in that pro- cess, they create social disruptions and upheav- als forthe people of the North in ways that verge on the criminal. Is it fair to dismiss the desires and needs of the people of Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, Hailey-: bury or any other town' in Northern Ontario to the skilled legal and bureaucratic performa- nce of the privileged environmental minority? A minority falsely trans-. posing values and fan- tasies from the cities (which are so dependent. on sound resource de- velopment) that are rest- ricting the ability of "'Northerners" and the. resource industries to function properly. Lest you think me to be to the right of Attila the Hun, let me set the record straight. Sound conservation based on multiple use of forests has long been adopted as a policy by the for- ests has long been adopted as a policy by the forest industry. We are ever mindful of the facts recently enunciat- ed by Dr. Aurelio Peccei, the founder of the Club of Rome, that every day, a beautiful normal day like today, the population of the world will grow by two thousand people. Our ancestors appeared on plant earth ten thousand centuries ago and grew Activity Day On Tuesday, March 22, students Si at the Terrace Bay Public School participated in a special "Activity Day." The Day provided an opportunity for parents and students to work together. Activities included chinese cooking, painting, games in the gym, skating, and plasticene sculptures at the primary level. Curling, macrame, skating, needlepoint, flower making, bowling, games in the gym, rug hooking, wood working, corrs country skiin, and ukulele for the Junior level, and an additional calligraphy group for the intermediate level. Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, April 6, 1983, page 5 progressively. At the beginning of this cen- tury we were one billion 600 million. Now, in a little over eighty years we are 4-1/2 billion. Be- tween now and the end of this century a sup-_ plementary humankind will be added that is bigger than that which had accumulated during the previous ten thous- and centuries. Can any thinking per- son not be concerned about the conservation of our resources? But to take a well-founded con- servation program and turn it into the environ- mentalists' "non-use of resources" equation makes no economic or social sense whatsoever. Just think - the present world population, the living generations of to- day, will . consume during the length of their life more natural resources than all the preceding generations during the past ten thousand centuries have consumed so far. In your province you have allowed 45 per cent of the productive forest land to be alienated: for non-productive reasons - the environmentalists are asking for hundreds of thousands of acres more. But let me give you a" concrete example of what all this means. Several years ago the Ontario government de- cided, under extreme pressure from environ- mental groups, to take 1,750 square miles of forest land for a wilder- ness park - a park known to most of you as Queti- co. The merchantable wood thus locked up for- ever represents 100,000 tons of annual newsprint production. At a price of $555.00/ton this repre- sents an annual loss to Mugwumps do not a nation make the provincial economy of $55-1/2 million dol- lars per year for every. year that resource is denied the multiple use approach - at the moment that is forever. As residents of Ontario used their park for only 13,000 person days per year over the last 3 years, you can see that for every resident user day the gross national product is reduced by $4,000. But - imagine if you will the morning after the night before scen- ario when the residents of Atikokan, Sapawe and other surrounding com- munities woke up to realize they had no fut- ure. That approximately 260,000 person days per year (1200 jobs) of re- gional employment had been wiped out by our land planners who were coaxed into action by the erudite and articulate skills of the modern- day mugwumps. Many of you are not directly dependent upon. the forest for a liveli- hood; however, the size of the industry in the province would indicate that many of you are dependent upon. its health and survival. Sing out, whenever you have the chance, to en- sure that your resource is managed to provide the greatest future eco- nomic and social bene- fits to the largest num- ber of Canadian resi- dents. For without: your support, your children and their children's children may face the austerity of other coun- tries who have misused their basic resources. | Remember - mugwumps do not a nation make."' Dear Editor; Lucille Kodila. the report. communities. for me last week.) Oh, if only columnists were paid by the inch! However, this not being the case | was somewhat dismayed to find my story on the Schreiber Figure Skating Club lengthened remarkably with the addition of news about the Terrace Bay Figure Skating Club. Its not that | would mind taking credit for the well written report on the outstanding success of the Terrace Bay Skaters, but, it was in fact written by their club executive member, On speaking with the Editor | found that in the interests of having enough space to run both aritcles, he found it necessary to combine them, but omitted to credit Mrs. Kodila with her portion of | hope this clarifies things, "and again, my congratulations to skaters from both _ (This is a paid advertisement, due to the fact the editor chose not to run this letter -- ey Yours Sincerely, Margie Delaney. ings on =z, Ontario THUNDER BAY For further Information Contact: Roger Cotton, Counsel Royal Commission on the Northern Environment 215 Red River Road, Suite 201 | Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 1A5 (807) 345-3658 Royal Commission on the Northern Environment HEARINGS The Commission will be holding further hearings at which parties will have the opportunity to give evidence and to cross-examine witnesses on relevant matters, as pro- vided by the Public Inquiries Act. TAKE NOTICE THAT the Commission will resume hear- April 11, 1983, 10:00 A.M., Viking Room, Valhalla Inn,