From aceska@cue.bc.ca Thu Jan 27 13:05:48 1994 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:23:25 -0800 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 69 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 69 January 26, 1994 Address: aceska@cue.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 ----------------------------------------------------------- CONFLICT IN THE CLAYOQUOT: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS From: Robert Froese on ECOLOG-L [abbrev.] Saturday, January 29, 1994 from 8:30 to 4:30 in the Scarfe Building, Room 100, on the UBC Campus University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Free admission Speakers at this day-long forum will include: Clark Binkley, Dean of Faculty of Forestry Mike Fenger, Forestry Specialist, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Gordon Weetman, Professor of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry John Borrows, Director, First Nations Law Programme David Cohen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law Gary Bowden, Resource Economist, Clayton Associates In the Afternoon the following Panel will discuss public policy issues, and address the question "Did the Process Fail?" Carol Reardon, Lawyer, West Coast Environmental Law Association George Hoberg, Associate Professor, Dept of Political Science William Stanbury, Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration Hamish Kimmins, Professor of Forest Sciences There will be an opportunity to ask questions after every ses- sion. Facilities will be available for Coffee, snacks and Lunch. For further information either contact the originator or call UBC Continuing Studies directly at (604) 222-5203. RE: THE CLAYOQUOT ISSUE: FROM THE DISCUSSION ON ECOLOG-L Question : Just curious. Were representatives from the Friends of Clayoquot invited to speak as part of this "comprehensive" analysis? Answer : Nope. Neither were repre- sentatives of International Forest Products, Macmillan Bloedel, or MLA's. The focus of this forum is to provide an opportunity for semi-academic analysis of many of the issues involved in the controversy over forest land use in the Sound. Admission is free, however, and any interested person, regard- less of political or philosophical conviction, is welcome to attend and join in question and answer sessions. Question : I don't want to play net.cop here, but if we're going to have this thread on ECOLOG, could *somebody* please provide some basic background informa- tion? (E.g., what's a clayoquot? What's the conflict? Why should we care?) Answer (Vicki Husband, Sierra Club): Clayoquot Sound is 260,000 hectares of mostly pristine wilderness on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is the most southerly extent of any sig- nificant remaining old growth temperate rainforest. In January 1992 the British Columbia government set up the Commission on Resources and Environment (CORE). They were to look at solving land use problems on Vancouver Island, but the issue of Clayo- quot was deliberately excluded from their mandate. On April 13, 1993, the NDP government announced their decision on Clayoquot [see BEN # 54]. One third protected, two thirds to be logged (in terms of old growth forest/merchantable timber 74% was committed for logging). There was no consultation with the Nuu Chah Nulth Nation who live in Clayoquot Sound. During the summer of 1993, the environmental group, Friends of Clayoquot Sound organized a major protest on logging road lead- ing to an active logging site [see BEN # 62]. Over 850 people have been arrested and charged with criminal contempt of court (the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history). The court is still processing the blockaders and many have gone to jail. There has been a major public outcry over the treatment of the protesters. In November of 1993 the government signed an interim agreement with the Central Region Tribes who claim rights to Clayoquot Sound. (The agreement is yet to be ratified.) The agreement gave the Aboriginal people a right to veto logging decisions that might threaten their values. NEW MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY, VICTORIA, ETC. - FEB. 3, 1994 The brand new mycological society will meet for the first time on February 3, 1994, at 7:30 p.m., at the Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria. Paul Kroeger, our guest from the Vancouver Mycological Society, will present a slide show. BEN readers may remember Paul's account of the mass mushroom poisoning of 77 Vancouver policemen [BEN # 29]. For more information phone Hannah Nadel at 544-1386. BOTANY B.C. ANNUAL MEETING 1994 The BOTANY BC 1994 meeting is tentatively scheduled for the week of June 20 to 25 in Tlell, Queen Charlotte Islands. For more information contact Trudy Chatwin or Dr. Jim Pojar . Dr. Hans Roemer made a cost estimate and came to $600/person, if you bring your own tent, and about $1100/person, if you go on a Post Meeting boat trip. RE: BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF EURASIAN WATERMILFOIL [BEN # 68] From: A. Ceska I was interested to find out what is the original host plant of a weevil found on introduced Eurasian watermilfoil. Sallie Sheldon wrote me: "It looks like the native host is Myriophyllum sibiricum = M. exalbescens, Northern watermilfoil. We have seen E. lecontei on M. sibiricum in Vermont, and Rob Creed went to Alberta summer 92 and looked for the weevil there (M. spicatum hasn't gotten to Alberta yet). It is also possible that it is on other native watermilfoils. The problem is that normally weevil densities are low, the larvae are endophytic, and the adults are small, thus it is not easy to find them." Robert Creed wrote: "We believe that the North American host of E. lecontei is one or more of the 'native' watermilfoils, i.e., the ones that were here prior to the introduction of Eurasian watermilfoil. We have collected it on M. sibiricum in Vermont, Alberta and Washington state. Ray Newman has collected it in Minnesota. We have yet to find it regularly on any other species. I have found two adults on M. alterniflorum in Vermont. I am skeptical of any native host use in Vermont due to the abundance of M. spicatum, i.e., M. spicatum host use might influence subsequent use of other milfoil species." While looking for the weevil in the literature, I realized that the correct name of the beetle is Eubrychiopsis lecontei. The name was misspelled in the Aquaphyte and the Aquatic Botany title and in the BEN I twisted it even more. CACTI AND SUCCULENTS DISCUSSION LIST From: bionet.plants If you are interested in cacti and succulents, you can subscribe to the CACTI_ETC list. Send a message subscribe cacti_etc FirstName LastName to listserv@opus.hpl.hp.com Good luck ! FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. I + II IN PRINT !!! From: FNA Newsletter Vol. 7, No. 4 We are delighted to announce the publication of Flora of North America north of Mexico, Volume 1, Introduction and Volume 2, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. 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