A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 5, 2002 Exchamsiks park camping local casualty EXCHAMSIKS provincial park’s campground is now closed permanently, say provincial parks officials. But they stress that people can still use the baat launch there as well as park in the day use parking lot for picnics or trail walks. The campground is one of 32 low-use parks araund B,C, that are being closed or downgraded as Victoria cuts expenses to balance the province’s budget over three § years. , Camping was already scheduled to be eliminated at Exchamsiks, said B.C. Parks regional manager Pete Weeber Hugh Markides. Large numbers of dangerous trees there were an unac- ceptable risk to campers, he said, and had left the choice of relocating the campground or cutting down large numbers of trees. The number of campsites there.had dwindled from 20 to about 16 because parts of the campground had been declared unsafe, tie said. | Budget constraints mean a new campground there won't be develaped for the foreseeable future.. Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park, jointly managed by B.C. Parks and the Nisga’a Lisims Government, is also facing cuts. Markides said the visitor centre in n the park will close unless some new source of revenue materializes. Visitor centres are being eliminated almost every- where in the province except al’ Mount. Robson and Wells Gray parks. The campground and puided trail hikes in the lava bed park will still run this year, All interpretive programs at Lakelse Lake - except for school-based programs that run in‘ the winter under sponsorship from Alcan — have been eliminated. All provincial parks campgrounds will now charge money for firewood. That measure along with the cuts to interpretive pro- grams province-wide is slated to save $1.5 million per year, Two other day-use areas in this region that had been on the original list of parks to be closed will be saved for this summer at least. Markides said Diana Lake picnic. area close to Prince Rupert will remain open after the City of Prince Rupert, District of Port Edward, and the Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District agreed to kick in a total of $12,000. “A.B L, 4 cylinder, 125 HP. VVT-i enging, Low Emissions Vehicle (LEV), automatic 7.7/5.4 L/100 km 37/52 mpg City/Hwy, +8 MonrH Least AM/FM CD, remote keyless entry, savwtar colour-keyed bumpers, air conditioning, full wheel covers, power door locks, 60/40 split rear seat, splash quards. The same advanced techology ‘ found.in Toyota’s famed F-1 cars is in these Toyotas, too. of closures And the Rass Lake day-use area near the Hazeltons will stay open after the town of New Hazelton and the Kitimat-Stikine regional district agreed to contribute just over $3,000. That cost is much reduced from the province’s ex- penses of $7,000 per year, said New Hazelton mayor Peter Weeber, because of volunteer commitments: and the town’s ability to use same ‘of its staff and equipment. “We said for $3,000 we're not going to take any chances that that park won't be operated,”: Weeber said. “I think every kid in, the, Hazeltons learned to swim there.” Weeber said his counterparts ‘at: Old Hazelton have objected to New Hazelton’s contribution. “They’re adamantly opposed to. us becoming involved in il,” he said. “They say it’s downloading from the pro- vince and we have no business doing it.” *Markides said stop-gap measures for this summer may keep such sites open until next year, when a new system for operating many patks could be in place. He said private operators may have a chance to bid fora contract to run clusters of parks and facilities in a region. Significant brush clearing at the Lakelse Lake picnic site parking lot is planned this year to reduce the danger of bears surprising visitors there, Markides added. “We're quite concerned about the bears around La- kelse this year,” he said. Airline tests route ALBERTA-based airline Peace Air says it will begin a test run of service to Terrace and Smithers starting June 17, ft plans a Prince George-Smithers-Terrace triangle Tun a few days a week. “This is what we call a limited run,” said Peace Air president Albert Cooper. “We want to test the market and determine the support there is in these areas before deciding our fall schedule.” Cooper said they'll decide later in the summer on the future of the flights based on demand. “We’ve resear- ched the markets, met with local business and trust the centres are ready for this service,” he said, Historically, east-west connections from places such as Terrace, Prince Rupert and Smithers to Prince George have not been all that successful. 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