NASS VALLEY |
LAVA BEDS. -
BECOME PARK ©

B,C.’s newest provincial park —
was officially opened | last. week .

north. of Terrace. In a ceremony
just across the Nass River from
the Nisga’a village of Gitwink-
sihlkw (Canyon City). Minister of
Environment John Cashore and
Nisga’a Tribal Council president
Alvin McKay pulled the covering
from a sign. inscribed in English
and Nisga’a that welcomes visi-

tors to Anhluut’ukwsim Laxmihl

Angwinga’asanskwhl Nisga’a, the
Nisga’a Lava Bed Memorial Park.

It is the first park in B.C. to ©

be under co-management of B.C.
Parks. and a native group. The
park will, be operated by direction
of an eight-member board, four
each from government and the
tribal council. It is also the first
park established under the pro-
vincial government’s protected
areas strategy, .the program
struck as the result of work done
by Parks and. Wilderness 90. and
the Old Growth Committee. Other
areas that fall under the program
in the Northwest are the Khutzy-
mateen River valley and the
Seven Sisters area near (Cedar-
vale.

The striking moonscape of the
lava flow is going to become the

focal point for visitors to the Nass _

Valley, said Nisga’a hereditary
chief and tribal council member
Harry Nyce. Plans for the park
include an interpretive centre
and, eventually, a living culture
exhibit similar to Ksan in Hazel-

ton in which visitors can watch

and talk to people dressed in
traditional garb performing tradi-
tional tasks in a setting represen-
tative of Nisga’a life prior to the
arrival of the first Europeans.

Nyce says the park will pro-.

vide a chance for people from
-outside the valley to gain an un-
derstanding of the Nisga’a culture
and their perspective on the land

moulds
“streams. The park includes part
of Tree Farm Licence 1, and the .
Nisga’a say they have an agree-

ment with Skeena Cellulose re-

and their own history. They are
expecting to develop a tourism
. a infrastructure. around the park,
oo, ‘offering’ RV parks, motels, camp.
"sites,
. tours, fishing, boating and guided
- river rafting.

sightseeing: and hiking

The park is 18, 000 hectares,
encompassing the lava flow and
the cinder cone- -and: craters from

the eruption. Its features include

rough and smooth lava areas,
pressure ridges, lava caves, tree
and. ‘subterranean

garding the visual’ impact of con-
tinuing logging on the park area.
The eruption occurred in the

1700's prior. to: the first contact —

between the Nisga’a and Euro-
peans. It diverted the course of
the Nass River and destroyed two
Nisga’a villages, killing several
hundred people. The Nisga’a con-
sider the entire area to be sacred

ground. —

JOINT VENTURE

RECOMMENDED -
FOR WESTAR —

A report released last week on

the: failing health of the forest ~
.industry in the Hazelton-Kit-

wanga area reflects the increasing
importance placed on the partici-

.pation and cooperation of native
people in decision on the alloca-'”
tion of forest resources in the ©

Northwest.

The report was prepared by
consultant Garth Langforth and
Nu Chal Nuuth tribal council

_ president George Watts and was. .

commissioned by the Minister of
Forests. It concludes that if the

. Hazelton-Kitwanga operations of |
Westar Timber are to have any —
chance to remain viable, the Kit-.

wanga sawmill will have to be: —
permanently closed.

The .commissioners recom-

mend that to preserve some of the

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Terrace Review -—- May 8, 1992