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Wilderness... continuef from Dage 2 irreplaceable. Even wilderness parks, a type allowing minimal development, pose no threat to indus- try interests. For instan- ce, opponents of the Lady Evelyn proposal claim it would shut down the local lumber mill. But a Ministry study shows that mill output might be lowered by 5 per cent and that cal- culation does not ac- count for the offsetting benefits a wilderness park could bring through tourism and the protection of wildlife habitat. Common sense alone suggests that the cur- rent slump in forestry and mining owes no- thing to parks and that abandoning the achieve- ment of parks object- ives will not guarantee any measure of econom- ic security or growth. Furthermore, parks planners have carefully bypassed areas of signi- ficant resource potential in selecting the propos- ed parks and the S per cent of Ontario which they cover. Instead, the forest industry for example, faces supply problems because it abandons an area the size of one wilderness park every year in On- tario through profess- ional neglect. Secondly, wilderness parks in particular, em- body a recognition of the need for economic de- velopment which res- pects natural limits - before the resource base is depleted and On- tario's natural heritage is lost for all time. For this reason more than any other, wilderness is opposed by those who benefit directly from de- velopment which de- pends on a continually expanding land base. Other non-industrial uses such as traplines and fly-in tourist camps also suffer from this type of development. Wilderness parks re- ceive so much more attention than these uses however, because of their emphasis on protection and their for- mal boundaries. They directly challenge the sustainability of re- source development in a way which can't be side- stepped by fuzzy poli- cies of multiple use. Wilderness parks pro- vide a fair measure of the stability and matur- ity of a modern econo- my. Many efforts have been made in and out- side the Ministry to re- buff this challenge by branding parks as the threat to economic se- curity and parks advo- cates as an insensitive minority. The fact is, whatever divisions exist between the various non-industrial users of Crown land, they are over-ridden by a com- mon concern for an ap- proach to development which values the future. The early hearings of the Royal Commission on the Northern En- vironment made this fact abundantly clear. The call of most speak- ers was for an end to the cut-and-run exploita- tion of the resource base and the achievement of adequate environ- mental safeguards. Greater emphasis in government policy on smaller scale resource extraction, the develop- ment of secondary in- dustry and _ especially the enhancement of the non-industrial economy focused on tourism, was recommended. These sentiments ap- peared again in the Thunder Bay and Tim- mins meetings Alan Pope recently held. If there was a clear divid- ing line between speak- ers it separated in- dustry and non-indus- try interests. It did not isolate parks supporters - from all others. Mr. Pope has defined Stanchuk. SINGER REPRESENTATIVE will be in TERRACE BAY & SCHREIBER February 10 & 11 With some great buys on Sew- ing Machines, Vacuum Cleaners, Knitting Machines & a good selec- tion of used Sewing Machines. For an appointment to see any Machine or Service any Sewing Machine, please phone 825-3319 and leave a message for Mr. Bill SINGER® TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE AND CREDIT TERMS AVAILABLE 11114 S. May St. Ph. 623-7912 'reserve some of On- Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 2, 1983, page 3 a unique opportunity to THANK YOU We would like to thank the members of The Schreiber Fire Department for responding to our call so quickly. Their prompt and precise response saved our home. Special thanks goes out to Ed & Cathy Borutski & Harry Prescott for their help. We are very fortunate to have such helpful Neighbours & Families. tario's wilderness heri- tage, an opportunity which carries great res- ponsibility since it will disappear with his generation. He has the mandate to shift 'priori- ties within the Ministry. The land use planning program is an appro- priate mechanism for doing so, and the urgent starting point is to draw the line on the destruct- ion of wilderness by de- signating the proposed wilderness parks. | wish to thank the people of Terrace Bay and Schreiber and Area for the privilege of allowing me to care for them tor the past years. | wish you all well. Special thanks to those who befriended -- and helped us since our move here in 1975. Sincerely, Helen & Blair Croll Michael & Tanny Mineau BROS. LTD. 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