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Inside Welcome! Carp Lake Windstorm BC Parks Newsletter December 2000 Volume 11, Number 6 Welcome! Carp Lake Windstorm by Rick Heathman, Prince George District Carp Lake Park is one of my favourites and on July 31 I took my sons and their friend out camping and fishing. We arrived in early evening, and around 7:00 p.m. it really clouded up and became so unusually dark that I had to turn the lights on inside the camper to shed the gloom. A little later I noticed a breeze start to blow offshore to the south, but after a few minutes it slowed and became quite still, then suddenly reversed and started to blow briskly onshore. I went out to tie things down for the night. Suddenly I could hear a roar of Honourable Ian Waddell, wind and stems snapping like gunfire. I screamed at the kids to get out of the trees Minister of Environment, Lands and we raced the short distance into a parking lot and watched as trees crashed to and Parks the ground, branches flew by like bullets, and people ran for their lives. When the rain and hail subsided it was a scene of true devastation. Hundreds Ian Waddell was appointed Minister of trees had fallen across the roads, vehicle passage was impossible and even of Environment, Lands and Parks on walking was difficult. Vehicles were crushed, trailers and campers were bashed November 1, 2000. in, tables flattened, tents ripped, boats ruined and the one-and-only motorcycle He served previously as Minister was bent in half. People were wet, it was cold and getting dark, and some had of Small Business, Tourism and no shelter or couldn’t use what they had due to overhanging trees. Culture from February 1998 to The staff and permittees were soon on hand making the park buildings avail- November 2000. able as emergency shelters for the night and arranging for professional fallers to Mr. Waddell was first elected to remove the downed trees. By 8:30 a.m. the fallers were hard at it with the campers the Legislative Assembly in 1996. He pulling the cut debris aside, together making the roads passable by noon. represents the riding of Vancouver- I was shocked at the speed at which the winds had come up, but I found out Fraserview. later that there had been a wind advisory on the news earlier in the day. The He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, storm had been created by a major cold front that slid across the interior plateau and immigrated with his family to lifting the moist summer air. Violent down-drafts from one of the huge Canada as a child. He holds a bachelor “thunderheads” funneled into the bay and blew the trees out around the rim. of arts in history from the University Although there were signs which might have alerted a weather-savvy person, of Toronto, a teaching diploma, a the 100+ kilometer winds came on so suddenly that everyone was caught L bachelor of laws degree, and a (continued on page 2) master’s degree in international law from the London School of Economics. A former assistant city prosecutor for the City of Vancouver and a Inside criminal lawyer, Mr. Waddell was most recently a practising community Letters …………………………………………2 lawyer and chair of the Fraser Basin Ecosystem Management and Parks ……………2 Management Board. Name the Protected Area ………………………3 Mr. Waddell served 14 years as a 25th Anniversary Wooden Broom Bonspiel……4 BC Member of Parliament in Ottawa. Empire Valley Ranch …………………………4 In 1979, 1980 and 1984 he was elected Mayer Lake: Managing an Ecosystem…………5 There was no safety inside RVs … as the Member of Parliament for Bear Watching Etiquette – A New Strategy …6 minutes before a tree fell on it, a child Vancouver-Kingsway. He was elected Masters Project Helps BC Parks ………………7 had been sleeping in this camper. to a fourth term in Ottawa as MP for E-Team Work Crews: Not Just for Port Moody-Coquitlam in 1988. I Trail Building Anymore ……………………8 VISIONS is produced six times per Letters year by BC Parks, Ministry of Last issue we printed a letter from Mr. John Philion thanking BC Parks Marine Environment, Lands and Parks to Area Rangers for their assistance in his recent boating accident. The following maintain commitment to quality relates to this letter. - Editor service and stewardship and to encourage innovation by everyone I would like to say ‘job well done’ to Gulf Islands Area Rangers Sarah Joanisse and directly involved or interested in Dylan Eyers and to Senior Park Ranger Hugh McDonald who was also on the scene BC Parks. in a work experience capacity. It is very rewarding to see the training and experience VISIONS Newsletter is posted on come together and effect a rescue of Mr. Philion as he was in a very precarious posi- BC Parks’ web site: www.elp.gov.bc. tion. Well done and thanks again from all of us at South Vancouver Island District ca/bcparks/whatsnew/what.htm. and BC Parks. As VISIONS is now available on the internet, please let us know if you Rick Whetter, A/Area Supervisor would like to be removed from our Gulf Islands Area, South Vancouver Island District. mailing list. To contact us regarding changes to the VISIONS mailing list or to receive a free subscription: (“Carp Lake…” continued from page 1) I call (250) 952-6709 off-guard. Contractors spent several Ecosystem weeks cleaning up the debris. The fire I send an email note to hazards were reduced, the trails [email protected] Management reopened, the aesthetics were returned I write to: VISIONS, BC Parks, to normal and a small mountain of and Parks PO Box 9398, Stn Prov Govt, firewood was created. In the end Victoria, BC V8W 9M9 Canada there was over $100,000 in losses to by Dylan Eyers, Articles from readers are welcome. personal property while the park South Vancouver Island District Deadline for material in the next issue received about $55,000 in damages. Ecosystem management is the new is January 8, 2001. Several people said they didn’t buzzword in the world of park know what to do when the winds hit management today. In 1997, BC Parks Editor and asked me what I thought they committed an ecosystem management Nancy Chave should have done. approach for managing the provincial After thinking about it for some parks system. Ecosystem management Contributors time, I have some simple advice for Dylan Eyers is an approach that uses the available anyone caught in trees during sudden Rick Heathman ecosystem knowledge to manage pri- severe winds… simply get down Andrew MacLeod marily for the ecological integrity of behind the biggest, strongest object Roger Norrish an area of land. This “new” concept in you can find – a rock, a log or your Erin Parr park management has a surprisingly vehicle – protect your face from flying Leigh Patterson long history in land management in debris, cross your fingers and wait it Pamela Ronalds North America. Components of out. Sandra Sajko ecosystem management, such as But before you go, listen to a Rick Whetter coordinated interagency land manage- weather forecast and pay up your ment, buffer zones for parks, research Minister insurance because you might not based decision making, and natural Ian Waddell have time to move your equipment, boundaries versus political bound- and trying to do that during high Deputy Minster aries, have been analyzed for over winds could get you injured or worse. Derek Thompson seventy years. Many of these concepts In spite of the storm, Carp Lake have been part of BC’s resource man- Assistant Deputy Minister remains one of my favorite places, Denis O’Gorman agement strategies for some time. and it’s even better now that the However, ecosystem science has been remaining trees are proven wind- concurrently developing. firm and many campsites have a In 1933 naturalist George Wright clear lake view! I criticized the US National Parks strategy for protecting wildlife in L (continued on page 3) 2 VISIONS December 2000 (“Ecosystem…” continued from page 2) Forest Service amended its policy for embedding the concept of ecosystem US Parks. He argued that parks were management within California to management. Parks Canada’s new not fully functioning ecosystems harmonize with the state policy. policy is dramatically illustrated in because of the lack of natural In Canada during the 1990s there the management of the Gwaii Hanaas boundaries and inadequate size. The have been a number of policy initia- National Park. The master plan for administrative boundaries, and not tives for land management that reflect the new park includes co-manage- natural boundaries, of designated ecosystem management theory. ment measures, public input strate- parks often did not allow for year Canadian and provincial environmen- gies, and interagency co-operation round habitat for migrating species, tal impact assessment processes measures for adjacent land activities, such as wolves, bears and elk. encourage resource appraisals such as logging and oil transport. In 1963 Starker Leopold raised combined with public and stakeholder BC Parks is currently applying concerns that parks could not be input into evaluations of projects ecosystem management concepts in ecological units separate from outside which can impact public land both its resource planning and manage- park activity. In order to improve (i.e. Parks). The Land Resource ment. It is firmly embedded in our wildlife protection, Leopold stressed Management Planning Process (LRMP) conservation principles. Moreover we that the US National Park Service and in BC reflects the ecosystem manage- have just finished developing an adjacent land managers, coordinate ment concepts, such as interagency ecological integrity training course increased training of park staff, and cooperation, stakeholder input and which all staff will attend.
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