THE
FOREST AROUND US |
Is there a tree in your economy? |
lovely south island of New Zealand
to the trees of B.C. to settle his family and to live by the
tree. He’s not just a logger, he is a champion logger in the skills
of Loggers Sports. Here in B.C. Loggers Sports is now a part of our
forestry life. Towns and villages and logging camps throughout the province
are now in the heat of battles for trophies to determine Canada’s
best choppers, log birlers, tree climbers and power saw men. |
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....Did
you ever have the feeling you were being watched — like from in
back of you somewhere? And you don’t know who’s watching,
and you don’t know what they want? Well you are. You and all the
rest of Canada are being well stared at these days and talked about too
by other nations and peoples all over this globe. And you can’t
blame them. Here we sit from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic to the 49th,
a big piece of high class real estate filled with a king’s ransom
of nature’s commodities, and we bicker and squabble among ourselves
over the goodies. Riots, strikes, walkouts, lock-outs and powerplays are
the order of the day and while we perform these games of self destruction
other people in other countries must look and wonder. Some are overpopulated,
some need more food, and some lack nature’s resources. |
....They
are not without their problems. Break-up time
when the vehicles bog down, and thinned out forests where the prime
trees were high-graded at the expense of the remaining trees. A fire
that burned their mill down a year ago and which is since rebuilt with
sweat and care. Louis and Cecil know about troubles. But they look at
the forest situation with high hopes and the concern of a good operator.
The tree in the Gibson’s economy is their living — they
know it and they work for it. A couple of pretty handy Canadians to
have in our land. |
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British Columbia Lumberman, June, 1972 | 17 |
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BILL MOORE’S COMMENT Continued from 17 |
a mill man. He has worked at IWA union affairs in a
variety of respon-sibilities from shop steward to local president. He
is now and has been for many years the IWA’s top safety man. |
daily go about their work across the country, always giving their
best and always hopeful of the future. |
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Keep out of the bight, |
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British Columbia Lumberman, June, 1972 | 23 |