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     1        growth, you say, is particularly precious.  Would you,
     2        please, identify which Canadian old growth is particularly
     3        precious?
     4        A.  Do I say it is particularly precious?
     5
     6   Q.   You say it here in answer to my question. You say:
     7        "When you have something like Canada where about 60 per
     8        cent of old growth remains, even though some of it is
     9        particularly precious, you have to look at it in a slightly
    10        different way."  Which part of Canada's old growth forest
    11        is particularly precious, geographically speaking"?
    12        A.  I want to rephrase that.  Some is particularly precious
    13        for humans.  That is particularly seen in British Columbia
    14        because of the magnificence of it, but if you happen to be
    15        a slug or beetle sitting in the middle of an Albertan
    16        clear-cut, that particularly old growth is very precious to
    17        you. I would say that all old growth is precious, some
    18        because of human considerations, often to do with beauty,
    19        age, spiritual things, is more precious to humans, but
    20        ultimately if you happen to be an animal the bit of old
    21        growth around you is the bit you care about.
    22
    23   Q.   Including rotting stumps and snags that have not been
    24        removed in accordance with policy, correct?
    25        A.  They would be important to you, yes.
    26
    27   MR. RAMPTON:  Thank you.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you.  Are there any questions you want
    30        to ask arising out of that?
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  No questions.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you, Mr. Hopkins.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  It may be helpful to say I had a word with
    37        Mrs. Brinley-Codd.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you want to talk about?
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  The time tabling is the most urgent thing to
    42        discuss.
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What we have is Mr. Siddique on Monday,
    45        Professor Ashworth on Tuesday and Mr. McIntyre on
    46        Wednesday.  Having covered a lot of ground with Mr. Stump,
    47        I really think that we ought to be able to deal with all
    48        those three witnesses in those three days.  Do you
    49        anticipate any problem about that?
    50 
    51   MS. STEEL:   The thing with Siddique, although it is some of the 
    52        same ground, it is a different time period so it may take 
    53        some amount of time.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would urge you to spend a little time at
    56        the weekend thinking hard about the particular areas you
    57        want to concentrate on; it is in your own interests as much
    58        as anything else.  I noticed in one of the letters you
    59        wrote that you referred to time at the end of evidence,
    60        before speeches are made to read, I do not remember now

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