—_— A 19,000 hectare area east of Highway 37 between Cranberry Junction and Meziadin has been set aside as a wilderness area under the Forest Act. The Swan Lake wilderness area encompasses a chain of lakes in the upper Nass River basin. Lands and Parks minister Dave Parker said Jast week the decision was made to confer the designation as a result of submissions réceived during the Parks and Wilderness POLICE REPORT _ The search for an unidentified. bicycle thief continues following a Sept. 17 break and enter at Sun- dance Ski and Sports. According to RCMP, ‘the thief gained entry by breaking the glass in the front door shortly after 3 a.m. and made off with a $500, beige coloured, 21- speed Kuwahara mountain bike. James George Friesen, 46, of Terrace and Dale Vernon Piwekk, - 47, of Sandspit drowned sometime between Sept. 4 and Sept. 14 while on a hunting trip in a remote area north of Dease Lake. According to RCMP Cpl. Jim — Horn, the two men chartered an aircraft on Sept. 4 to fly them into Granit Lake, 45 minutes northwest of Dease Lake. The pilot was instructed to pick them up on Sept. 9 but inclement weather delayed the flight until the next day. Horn says the pilot returned on Sept. 10 and found one of the two men and their overturned boat floating on the surface of the lake. Dease Lake RCMP were notified and Friesen’s body was recovered on Sept. 13 by the RCMP Prince Rupert dive team. Divers were unable to find Piwek, however, and the RCMP continued their search the next day with the help of three of Piwek’s friends from Sandspit. It wasn’t until Sept. 15, though, that Piwek’s body was recovered, A 47-year-old Terrace man will appear in court this month to face a charge of making harassing phone calls — to the RCMP. The charge is the result of a five-min- ule phoning spree on Aug. 31 between 9:13 p.m. and 9:18 p.m. Working with B.C. Telephone, RCMP were able to trace and arrest the caller. Just what the caller said is unknown, but according to RCMP, none of the calls made to their Terrace detachment office were for any form of police services. A 12-pauge shotgun was stolen - from a pickup truck in the 2700 block South Sparks sometime during the night of Saturday, Sept.14. A stolen firearm not only represents a financial loss to the owner but also creates a situation that could be dangerous to the public. Terrace RCMP ask that all hunters ensure their firearms are stored in a secure manner. Somctime between 6 p.m. last Friday cvening and 8 a.m. Satur- day morning, two unidentified - cyclists on mountain bikes did their best to destroy a green at the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club, Not satisfied with their for 90's, project earlier this year, Features of the area are grizzly bears, old growth hemlock forest ‘and salmon habitat. The area also offers numerous recreation values. -A wilderness management plan will be developed for the area by the B.C. Forest Service to go along with the Kispiox Forest District resource. management plan. The formation of the plan is supposed to include consultation with the destruction, they then proceeded to Carve a name and phone number in the green in two-foot-high letters with a stick. Course pro-manager Bruce Car- ruthers says the damage looked serious when it was first dis- covered, but maintenance crews . were ablé to repair the green in time for a championship round of golf later in the day. In time, he says, the grass will grow back. Terrace RCMP Cpl. Moritz says an investigation into the incident continues, and anyone with any information that may identify the vandals is asked to contact the Terrace detachment of the RCMP or ‘the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club. Se PRINCE RUPERT @ TERRACE @ QUESNEL CAMPBES RIVER, ; COURTE ® VANCOUVER. RICHMOND, - _ SURREY, * MAPLE RIDGE { COQUITLAM So LANGLEY (iets eg @CHILLIWACK ~.@ ABBOTSFORD Garry @ FORT sh JOHN Terrace Review —— Wednesday, September 25, 1991 31 _ AREA NORTH OF KITWANGA GETS WILDERNESS STATUS: Logging ban falls on Swan Lake public and native residents of the area. The wilderness area designation allows hunting, fishing, trapping, guiding and limited mincral explo- ration, but forbids commercial timber harvesting. The area is near the location where Orenda Forest Products had originally proposed to build a groundwood pulp and paper mill. That mill is now under consider- ation for a location near Lakelse Lake. The wilderness area is not within the current boundaries of Orenda’s chart area for logging. A statement from the Western Canada Wilderness Committee welcomed the Swan Lake decision and congratulated the government. ‘PRICES @ DAWSON CREEK @ PRINCE GEORGE Alta. \ @ WILLIAMS LAKE @ KAMLOOPS @ SALMON ARM @ VERNON @ KELOWNA @ PENTICTON CRANBROOK ™ “BASTLEGAR @ @ BELLINGHAM (Sie N.TACOMA @S.TACOMA Wa. ~~ 8 GRESTON Seniors in Terrace and District $30.00 _ Seniors outside of Terrace and District $33. 00 Out of Canada $100.00 Committee director Paul George noted that it will help protect the headwaters of the Kispiox River, one of the world’s most prolific steelhead habitats. The government also announced it has published a 200-page sum- mary of submissions made to the Parks and Wildemess in the 90’s program. The ddcument will be used as resource material for fur-' ther action in establishing other wilderness areas and parks in B.C. LARUE Fon chroxvo_ 4535 Greig Avenue, FAUNA B.C. 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