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Show 1 inter Season- fwl Seletta! d By fenpsiSaiiSs Stiperasnf As fall and winter approach, Canyonlands National Park officials will shift their emphasis em-phasis from caring for summer sum-mer travelers , to prepaing for new programs for next year. One of the prime objectives objectiv-es for winter work is an increase in-crease in interpretive programs pro-grams at the various sections of the park. Some interpretive interpre-tive programs are now being formulated for next year's season in the Maze. A new district ranger, Jim Walters, and his wife Sandra moved into the Maze area this week to begin work there. Walters was formerly stationed in Everglades National Park in Florida. He will be in the Maze, which was added to the Park last year, until early ear-ly winter when he will move to Natural Bridges National Monument for the winter months and will split duties between tine monument and the Maze. He will do most of the primary interpretive planning for that area. At Arches National Park, preliminary plans have been approved for a number of wayside exhibits along the main road to Devils Garden campground. The plan was done early this summer and is now at the Park Service's interpretive headquarters in West Virginia for completion. complet-ion. It is hoped, according to Superintendent Robert Kerr, that the exhibits will be ready for next summer's visitor traffic. An auto tour guide is also being planned which will provide even more visitor information in the Arches. The book would be purchased purchas-ed at the Visitor Center and would allow visitors to have information about a large number of features which will not be covered by the wayside exhibits. In the Needles District of Canyonlands, an interpretive trail is being planned near the information center which will lead to a ruin nearby. The trail would be accessible to about 99 per cent of the visitors to the park and would provide interpretive access to a little known feature. fea-ture. . Following the Labor Day weekend, seasonals who work during the summer months for the Park Service have gradually gra-dually been reduced in numbers num-bers and by winter only the 31 permanent personnel will remain. While administrative problems prob-lems are taken care of in the Park headquarters, maintenance mainten-ance crews will bjgin work on refurbishment iof signs, roads and picnic imi enmp-i"-: 'ireas wi-hi-. The p. ' ic. Some of the exhibits at the Arche-s Visitor Center wiH be redone- this winter, Mr. Kerr said, and some signs which have not yet been changed from monument to park will also be changed, he continued. contin-ued. The road from Squaw Flat Campground to Big Spring Canyon is moving closer to reality this week with the final day for input into the draft environmental analysis report being Thursday. Kerr stated that a large number of comments have been received re-ceived and will be put into the report. It will then be sent to the Environmental Quality Council for action and should ' be approved by the first of the year. Money for the project has already been appropriated and it is hoped that if the impact statement is approved, work will begin by next summer. Funding for the second phase of construction con-struction on the road, which ultimately will go to the verlook of the Green and Colorado Co-lorado Rivers, was not granted grant-ed by Congress this year. That phase was construction of the Big Spring Canyon Bridge itself. u L . vf-r. . ' " t.-" 'to-- :' "t ' ' ' 1 . !e! : ' i f '. k v - --'I-. I if ?rl , S V.. I i w -wlV,, - -U'l i A w , i - ' s . ;:. ..... . . -. SuEllen Nordfelt, seated, was chosen by the GCHS student body last week to reign over the 1972 Homecoming activities. ac-tivities. Monette Gramlich, leftr was chosen cho-sen to represent the Senior class ; Liz Ruggeri, center, is junior attendant, and sophomore attendant is Ruby Mar- , tinez. The girls will be presented roses during half time activities at the game Friday night. |
