A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 24, 1994

Fire
season
is above
average

THE 1994 FIRE season is
making up for the low numbers
last year. .

Seventy-one fires have burned
over 170 hectares in the Kalum
forest district so far this year, said
forest service operations manager
Erle Holt, doubling the 1993 total
of 35 fires,

“The last two years, fire
numbers have been exceptionally
low,"? said Holt, adding that the
1994 season will exceed the 10-
year average of 73 fires per year
in this area,

Most of the fires were caused
by lightning strikes, creating
small, controllable fires like the
16 fires reported last week.

Hit hardest in last week’s fires
were the Copper River and Clore
River areas where lightning
strikes started eight of the 16
fires.

The only two major fires of the
season have been in the Kitimat
Valley and at Little Oliver.

While Holt could not give an
exact cost of the 1994 fire-
fighting, he did say it was
“definitely well into the hundreds
of thousands of dollats.”’

“We are reluctant to discuss
costs because of any future

Jitigation but I can say we will be
paying from now until March for
this season,’’ said Holt.

The fire rating in most of the
district is currently moderate but
if the hot weather continues, he
said, the rating could soon move
up to high.

In the Kitimat River and
Cedarvale areas, the rating is
already high. .

Because of the dry weather,
logging crews started working
earlier to avoid the prime heat of
the day.

“Most —_ operations have.
voluntarily gone to a modified
shift starting at 6:00 am. and
ending at 2:00 in the afternoon,’*
said district fire control officer
Ralph Ottens.

Fire protection officer Joe

*'"Katasorioft “Said "10 ‘mim of ‘rain ~

are needed to move the fire rating
from moderate down to low.
“We need a really good

dousing fo make any real

difference,’’ said Katasonoff. |

“The spotty showers we've been
having are insignificant because
they also bring the lightning
strikes that get the fires going.”’

New

party
starts

B.C. REFORM members plan to
run a candidate here in the next
provincial election.

Local organizer Lorne Sexton
. said the party has begun advertis-
ing here to attract members,

“We're trying to sign up
- enough people to get a con-
slituency association going,’’
_ Sexton said, “We need 50.’*

He said they’ve got about 20
' members signed up so far.
Among them is former Skeena
. Social Credit MLA Dave Parker.
The organizers of the new con-
’ stituency association include
several key people who backed
_ the successful federal Reform
campaign here last fall.

That campaign attracted more
than 800 members and elected
MP Mike Scott by a 4,500 vote
_ margin
But federal leader Preston Man-
’ ning has consistently opposed the
creation of provincial wings of
"the party.

Provincial party organizers say
they won’t be using the federal
: parly’s membership lst, but
noted they expect to find enough
, potential members without it.

- As soon as they have enough
' people to form a constituency as-
sociation, Sexton said, they’L! call
. a town hall meeting to officially
. Start the organization,

' He said they would ask B.C,
. Reform leader Jack Weisgerber to

‘ attend.

: aKkkkk

‘  There’s already an active

: provincial Reform connection be-

‘ tween Victoria and Terrace,

_ Caledonia grad Bruce Hallsor is
spending the summer working in

the office of Reform MLA Lyall

: Hanson.

:  Hallsor returns to the University

‘ of Vicloria. this fall fora final

: year of law school, .

Prince
visits
park

RECEIVING OFFICIAL patk
status last week was the Khut-
zeymateen Valley, north of
Prince Rupert, which is home
to approximately 50 grizzly
bears.

And taking part in an offi-
cial ceremony in the valley
Aug. 17 was Prince Philip, ac-
ting as a representative of the
World Wildlife Fund. WITH GRIZZLY spatting binoculars at the ready, Prince Phili

The Class A provincial patk took part In ceremonies Aug. 17 declaring the Khutzeymatee
is 44,902ha in size and its Valley a provincial park. (PHOTO COURTESY B.C. PARKS)

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population of grizzlies is the
biggest known concentration
along the B.C. coast.

The area also lies in the

protects the grizzly,”’ said minister John Cashore, ended
Premier Mike Harcourt. the day.

The Khutzeymateen in 1992 Prince Philip wasn’t at the
Tsimshian land claim and the was one of the first areas to be feast, owing to previous com-
province signed an agresment’ = set aside under the govern- mitments in Victoria.

to jointly manage the area ment’s Protected Areas The Khutzeymateen area at
with the native group. Strategy program, one time had been subject to
“*We look forward to con- A feast in Port Simpson logging under a permit given
tinuing our work with them to — hosted by the Tsimshian and to Wedeene River Timber
safeguard the valley and joint- = attended by various guests, in- when it built a sawmill in
ly manage it in a way that cluding aboriginal affairs —- Prince Rupert.

Dr. Thomas Nenningers..er, ase, nos.
will practice

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