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More visitors, jobs, at volcano

Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - 6:31 AM HAST
Monday, June 25, 2007

by Howard
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Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park is getting hundreds more visitors per
day, and has hired 64 extra people to handle the work load, since sweeping
changes in volcanic behavior about a week ago.

"We are open for business and visitation is booming," Cindy Orlando,
park superintendent, told Pacific Business News. "They love watching the
seismograph spike with an earthquake in real time."

Thousands of people, about 800 more than usual, visited the park on
Father's Day when the quake swarm peaked and have been up by "a few
hundred a day" since then, Orlando said.

The increase has taken place despite one fifth lower daily arrivals to
the Big Island than last year at the same time. More than 1,200 people fly
from the Mainland to Kona most days. Hotel occupancy figures for last week
will become available next Friday.

The lava flow that has been a virtually uninterrupted feature of the
park for two decades has stopped, removing a key reason to visit the park,
but in another sense it has made the park more interesting.

"A special treat for the visitors during this time is a lot of
one-on-one contact with park rangers who are out on the trails and at
sites giving walks and talks and keeping visitors informed with the very
latest data," Orlando said. "All rangers previously assigned to the
eruption site at the ocean entry have been relocated to the summit area."

Steam and sulfur gas still rises from vents in and around the massive
Kilauea crater. Indeed, sulfur emissions rose to hazardous levels during
the week, though they have subsided somewhat.

"Sulfur dioxide emissions and concentrations remain elevated in
Kilauea's summit caldera, but below levels toxic for prolonged exposure,"
Park Ranger Mardie Lane said in a Sunday night update. "Visitors are
reminded that air quality can change quickly, particularly when winds
shift. When driving along Crater Rim Drive near the Southwest Rift and
Halemaumau Crater, visitors are advised to stop only at designated
pullouts, keep their windows closed, and set their air-conditioning on
recirculation."

A 10-person fire support team from Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
near Redding, Calif., arrived Friday from the Mainland and is now on duty
supporting park operations. Dry conditions pose a hazard to surrounding
forests and scrubland including some indigenous species that are already
in short supply.

Chain of Craters Road has been closed since cracks appeared across it,
a few miles from the Crater Rim Road turnout.

"This is largely due to evacuation issues should something happen out
there, which it likely will," Orlando said. Chain of Craters Road
descendents to the coast where visitors could walk to a view of the lava
entering the ocean. That flow has stopped, and seismologists think the
many earthquakes are evidence of magma shifting, to emerge eventually from
some new location on the mountain.

Park rangers, firefighters, and scientists from Hawaiian
Volcano Observatory scientists will meet Monday to assess the
situation.

Kilauea Visitor Center and Jaggar Museum always close at 5 p.m. on
Sundays but expected to open on a normal schedule during the week.

National park facilities in Hawaii supported 6,675 jobs and more than
$294 million in visitor spending and park payroll, of which Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park alone counted for 2,382 jobs and $105 million
spending.

Reach Howard Dicus at [email-masked]

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