Member for norton, sorry in the name of north korea.

Thank you. Mr speaker. I introduced my friend, steve baller and steve was born in fairham england, some 60 years ago, half of those years he spent in fisheries as a biologist, some 30 years now he worked in for the forest industry, he's a habitat, bio biologist for dfo and a fisheries consultant for developers, private individuals and forest companies.

He has been at carnation creek for 13 years, managing it for 10. coronation creek for the members who don't know is at the beginning of alberni canal on the way to banfield it's the longest running fisheries and forestry study in the world. It was an unlocked watershed of 11 square kilometers located at the head of barkley sound. It started in 1970 with six years of multi-disciplinary study, pre-logging of fish populations, gravel composition, aquatic insect diversity, etc.

Three logging applications have been applied. Three logging treatments have been applied in the district over a six year period. The first one fell all the trees to the stream bank and cross stream yarded, in other words, dragged the logs across the stream. The next one was careful logging with no buffer, but all the trees were folded away from the creek and dragged away from the creek and then the lowest section. Most recent left an old growth buffer studies continue to the present day, gathering information on weather, precipitation, minimum and maximum temperatures stream morphology.

Detailed physical surveys of eight reaches conducted yearly, monitoring of channel migration pool depth, large woody debris, location and movement, a very in-depth study incomparable and of vital interest to all of us in terms of understanding, climate change and the effect on our habitat. I'd like the members to thank steve and cherish carnation creek.