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1995

The 1995 hiking season has drawn to a close. The trails have been given their yearly once over. Several new loop trails hove been added to the Blackwater trail system. These are the meadow loop, the Mackenzie Parking lot loop and the Nakonate loop. They are about seven or eight kilometres each.

Betty and I finally put up the 4'x8' signboard at the Blackwater river. It shows all the current trails and roads along with rivers and lakes in the lower Blackwater area. Mr. and Mrs. Cooney kindly gave us permission to put the sign on their property. The art work on the sign was very well done by Neil Elder, a Quesnel high school student. Money for the sign was gratefully received in a grant from the Quesnel Heritage Association.

Ed Boyne kindly donated over an hour's work with his bulldozer to level a small parking lot at the Telegraph trail crossing of the Blackwater road at Whittier (west) creek.

we had a very successful hiking season. Betty and I, very much, enjoyed leading a number of adventurous hikes. All were well attended. Plans are being made to increase the number of hikes next season. We plan to have a hike every week from the first of May to the first of October. Each hike will be on a different section from the week before. I plan to bring my saw along and cut the windfalls and trim up the trail as we go. This will save much time and expense, rather than going over the same trail twice.

We are reducing the membership fee to two dollars per year, now. However, one does not need to be a member to hike with us.

We received reports from the Kispiox and Kalum (Terrace) Forest Districts, respectfully. They expressed their interest in the Telegraph trail sections that go through their districts. They are working at mapping the trail with a view toward Heritage Designation in the future.

We have not lost the hope of, someday, being a part of a trail system from Mexico to Yukon; maybe even from the Yucatan to the Yukon.

The Forestry continues to cut giant douglas fir from beside the trail. This year, it was in the Naltesby lake area. I feel that the huge monarchs belong to the trail and should be left to die a natural death. They can cut the giant fir outside the protected zone of the trail, if they must, but not beside the trail, please. They should be left along the trail to marvel at.

We have blue logos showing telegraph wires on the Telegraph trail. The Lhtakoh trail is marked with a logo showing a black arrow-head. The Escarpment trail is marked with green plastic squares, while the Canyon trail has orange ones. Color coded maps of the lower Blackwater trail system are available at two dollars each.

Executive Chair,

Dwight Dodge