Day 073 - 13 Jan 95 - Page 37
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: It would be very helpful.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it would then I will know what we are
7 looking at.
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9 THE WITNESS: OK.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They more or less go, with the omission of
12 150, with the even numbers; is that because there is a
13 number on each double page?
14 A. They are each double pages, yes.
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16 Q. Do they describe where the areas are?
17 A. They do describe. There is a map with a little red dot
18 here which shows where the area is.
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20 Q. Can I just look for myself?
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22 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, they also have the name of the particular
23 location which is photographed, the particular forest on
24 which the photograph was taken.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 146, Caribou Mountains; 148, Wood Buffalo
27 National Park. You did not want me to look at 150. You
28 are not relying on 150?
29 A. I am not relying on 150.
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31 Q. 152, Upper Oldman River area, Rocky Mountains, Alberta;
32 154, Wood Buffalo again; 156, Wiggens Bay, Canoe Lake,
33 Saskatchewan; 158, Napoming(?) Provincial Park, Manitoba --
34 not far away from where I worked in the forest in the
35 summer of 1960 but I learnt nothing which will help me with
36 this case! 160, Gordon Cousins Forest, Ontario; 162 in
37 Quebec, you do not want me to ----
38 A. If it is not on my list, no.
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40 Q. And 164, Near Fundy National Park, New Brunswick. Thank
41 you.
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43 MR. MORRIS: They are examples, are they, of -----
44 A. These are a series of examples of clear cutting which
45 I have taken, basically working west to east across
46 southern Canadas, southern Canadian states, and they show
47 the effects of clear cut forestry and the size and scale of
48 the clear cuts in those areas.
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50 Q. In your statement you have said at: "11.2.2: While there
51 are considered to be the usual problems with the conversion
52 to plantation in all areas of Canada, the clear cutting of
53 the North American Pacific coast temperate forests" --
54 sorry, that is British Columbia. Sorry, you will have to
55 explain then?
56 A. Yes.
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58 Q. Is the clear cutting the only problem in Canada or are the
59 usual plantation problems also evident?
60 A. Well, clear cutting is the major problem and clear
