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Iwao Terui, Associate Vice-President and Senior Executive Manager for the
Telephone Directory Division of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT),
expressed shock today upon viewing photographs of MacMillan Bloedel (MB)
logging practises in the region of Port Alberni, B.C.

MB is supplying 60,000 tons of paper for NTT's annual telephone
directories distributed across Japan.  According to MB's Japan office,
MB's paper for the three-year (1993-95) NTT telephone book contract comes
from MB's Port Alberni mill which is adjacent to Clayoquot Sound.

Garth Lenz, a professional photographer and Director of The Friends of
Clayoquot Sound in BC informed Terui of the true nature of the origin of
the paper during a two-hour meeting in Tokyo.  "Your telephone directory
is being printed on pulp from trees that are up to a thousand years old
and not second growth." Lenz told Terui.

After seeing Lenz's photograph's documenting MB's clearcutting in the
region, Terui said, "I just can't imagine our telephone books being
printed on those beautiful trees.  What's being done in BC is very tragic.
 It's very sad and it's bad business."

Referring to Lenz's photographs clearcuts on steep slopes, Terui stated,
"Those mountains look almost similar to the steep mountains we have in Japan."

On behalf of the Friends of Clayoquot Sound, the Valhalla Wilderness
Society, and the Western Canada Wildeness Committee, Lenz asked the
Executive Manager for NTT'sTelephone Directory Division to reconsider the
contract with MB.

MB won the three-year contract with NTT by undercutting the bid of
Japanese supplier Jujo Paper, which ahd previosly been supplying NTT with
50% recycled content in its paper.  MB's recycled content for the NTT
contrct is in the range of 10-15% according to NTT.

MB's Port Alberni operations have been the centre of international
controversy since the spring when the BC government decided to allow MB to
log 75% of Clayoquot Sound, one of the last intact ancient temperate
rainforests left on Vancouver Island.  More than 800 people have been
arrested for blockading MB's Kennedy Lake Bridge at the entrance to
Clayoquot Sound.