WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 109

- New ‘Provincial Park
in North-Western B. C.:
provides wilderness |

“and volcanoes.

" Theestablishmect of a 928, 000

BM acre Class “A” provincial park.

and a 249,000. acre Fecreation

g area to be Known .as: Mount :
wm Edziza Provincial Park and.

= Recreation Area is announced
me by the Honourable W.kK; —
aq Kiernan, Minister of Recreation
oe and Conservation, ;

The new park and recreation

| area is iocated.in the Tahtlan :

Highlands between the Stikine
and =ssIskut
northwestern British Columbia,

wa. Thereis‘every likelihood that, ”
8 in due course, when: resource |
= inventories are completed in the
™ recreation area that it will be
ma possible to give Class “A” park
# status to the area.
me meantime, the recreation area -
‘status will ensure careful
im attention to the preservation of

In the

‘the present high: recreational

: attraction of the lakes and

woodlands adjacent to. the
mountainous park core,- - °
Mount Edziza . Provincial
Park and Recreation Area is
considered a milestone in: the

4 provincial parks system not.
only because of its size but more.”

Terrace Health, =

Rivers in ;

’ Mount Edziza.

years ago,

inaportant “because ’ ‘of the '
uniqueness..of the“ area. |
protected. Encompassed within.
the $00 square mile park and
recreation area is one of the
most significant volcanic zones

in British Columbia, ff ‘not in
Canada, Mount Edziza,
elevation 9,143 feet, and other
voleanic ‘Peaks in the region: -
erupted: for ‘the ‘first time
4,000,000 years ago and every . |
few thousand: years since. .
According to Tahtlan and
Tsimshiam Indian. Lore,
volcanoes in the district have
erupted within the past
thousand years and. even as
‘recently as less than 100 years
ago: :

Jack Souther, a voleanologist
with the Geological Survey of
Canada, has -spent the - past
several years surveying and
doing seismic investigations of

He states; —
“Mount Edziza, one million
let ‘go with a
gigantic, catastrophic eruption
that spread ash all over the .
northern part of the province.” -,
That eruption and the .

Opens August’ Ist

‘Sauna‘s, aym facilities,

relaxing! parapacks, reducing methods.

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‘ subsequent Java flows have .
*. built up around Mount Edziza a
"plateau almost a mile thick, ten’..
~~ miles wide,’ and 25 miles long.
" Surrounding glacier-rimmed
~. Mount Edziza on the plateau are
:. 90. or, more smaller laya and
cinder cones, ‘including almost
“symmetrically perfect Eve
. Cone, also known as Cinder.
iCone, and the aptly-named.
Ma Pocoa and Coffee Craters.
Included in the Class “A” .

park as well as Mount Edziza

"and the zone of most recent
 voleanic activity, is the
" Spectrum Range of Mountains -

which present a kaleidoscope of

- ¢olour resulting from the

staining of lava by mineral salts

* dissolved in boiling sulphurous

water. Spectrum™ Range is

. much older than Mount Edziza

and -has been extensively
eroded by. glaciation,

Raspberry Pass,
separates ‘the Spectrum Range

from the Mount Edziza area of’
‘the park, was followed by the

Yukon Telegraph Company's

- line to Telegraph Creek in the
.. 1860’s, Many. of the telegraph <7
poles are still standing although
-the line cabins'situated every 20

miles along the route have all
but disappeared.
There are five major lakes

' within the park and recreation

area, Four of them -- Mowdade,
Mowchilla, Kakiddi, and

- Nuttlude form a chain along the
-eastern periphery while, the,

fifth, Buckley, is in the northern
section, The larger lakes.and
most of the waterways are well-
stocked with rainbow trout.

‘which:

STRATHCONA
The area around Mount

‘Edziza is summer habitat of

grizzly bear, mountain caribou,

- mountain goat, stone sheep, and

the occasional moose, Sheep | -

and goats are the only: year-

round residents of the. high | a ;

. Mountains.

- Access to Mount Edziza

’. Provincial Park and Recreation -

Area at present is by ‘air inmost -

. instances ‘or by crossing the

Stikine. River at: Telegraph -
Creek, the nearest community,

'. and following the old Telegraph

Trail. With the completion of
the Stewart-Cassiar Highway,
which will more or less parallel
the eatern boundary, access via

‘ Raspberry Pass to the central

portion:,of the park will be
possible. The Stewart-Cassiar
Highway will also provide

BOWRON ge
face |

, ct fm
sonnel ‘takes along the

The wilderness aspect of On
~ Mount Edziza Provincial Park =~
and Recreation. Area will be .. a
maintained. with ‘visitor-
oriented developments such as
“campgrounds being located
hear major access routes. ~ ”

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