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Article Evaluation:

this is my zone of info and questions pertaining to my article for the research project.

These are some that i have found interest in

• Hunlen Falls
• Rainbow Range
• Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area
• Entiako Provincial Park
• Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park
• Chilcotin Country
• Helmcken Falls
• Della Falls

The Article Chosen

Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park and these are some of the main issues that need attention:

1. photos: just find a few more about the park itself

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1. detailed map: [1] this is a copy of the governments proposal when the park was first introduced page 2 there is a few really good outlines of the map https://www.bing.com/maps?&ty=18&q=Tweedsmuir%20South%20Provincial%20Park&satid=id.sid%3ab591f4d7-821b-dd6b-d3a3-6b70d3c846e7&vdpid=-7954110076&mb=53.816631~-127.320557~51.892181~-125.574638&ppois=52.9786949157715_-126.24471282959_Tweedsmuir%20South%20Provincial%20Park_~&cp=52.978695~-126.244713&v=2&sV=1
2. more information: there is a ton of information on the bc parks site, as well as in the book ive ordered
3. geography

here is a link to the park site: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/tweeds_s/

Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park

Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Formerly part of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park it was formed from the southern portion of that park, the northern portion being re-designated Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area in order to allow resource extraction in the park.

The Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail passes through this park, via Heckman Pass and Burnt Bridge Creek. Other trails in the park are numerous, and access Hunlen Falls(259m), one of the highest waterfalls in Canada, and also Lonesome Lake, famed for homesteader and conservationist Ralph Edwards, who worked to preserve migration habitat there for the trumpeter swan. This park was where the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic in British Columbia began.^{[citation needed]}

History

The park, or rather the original Tweedsmuir Provincial Park which included what is now Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area, was created in 1938 in the wake of a 1937 visit by floatplane and horseback to the Rainbow Range by John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, who was then Governor-General of Canada.

An article about the creation of the park, written by John Buchan's wife, The Lady Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, appears in the April 1938 issue of The National Geographic Magazine.

Places of Interest

Some of the main attractions in the park are as follows:

Hunlen Falls: One of Canada's highest waterfalls for unbroken drop

Rainbow Range (Chilcotin Plateau): Volcano range where the unique minerals give the soil an array of colours

Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail: A historic passage used by Local first nations to the region and early explores for trade and travel to the coast

Access

The southern portion of the park is on Highway 20, approximately 400 kilometres west of Williams Lake and can be reached by road from that town. More convenient access is via the Discovery Coast Passage ferry from Port Hardy on Vancouver Island or by float plane from Nimpo Lake, Anahim Lake or Bella Coola.

Climate

With such a vast area the climate varies throughout the park. However in the lower regions closer to the Bella Coola Valley the temperature is warmer with a higher annual level of rainfall. Around one fifth of their annual precipitation falls as snow. Further west as the altitude climbs the weather is generally more severe and the temperature changes throughout the summer and winter are drastic. On average ranging between the minus thirties mid winter, to the higher forties during high summer

References

1. Jump up^
3. Jump up^ BC Parks Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park webpage, History section