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Doug ‘Adolph, cannot
tranquillize-bears even when
he is here because he is not
licenced :to do so. He has to
call in an officer with a
tranquillizer gun from
Abbotsford, who is currently
on callin Adolph’s absence.

- RCMP “officers with rifles
attended. two “locations of
bears Sunday’as nobody was
available _ from Fish and
Wildlife and shot two bears.

The first was in a backyard
at 344 West Fifth Street, the
home. of Andy Zullo.

Zullo came out of his
house with a cup of coffee in
hand at about 9:30 a.m. and
saw. the 350 pound three-
year-old black bear in the
nextdoor yard at 354.

He said he watched the
bear leap over the five-feet
high fence into his yard. “He
was a very docile and quite a
calm bear and started eating
my garbage,” Zullo said.

He added that RCMP
officers with rifles told him
they had been ordered to
shoot the bear as there was
not a conservation officer
available to deal with the
situation.

While a crowd of about 40
neighbours watched, a
Mountie with a 308 calibre
rifle fired three shots at the
bear which was sitting.

SPCA officers removed

the dead bear and loaded it
into a van.

Zullo commented on the
incident: “The police had no
choice and I respect that.
But the feeling common
amongst our neighbours
seems to .be that with the
amount of bears and
canyons on the North Shore
the Fish and Wildlife should
have better facilities to
handle situations like this.
They ‘should have more
people on so they do not
have to shoot the bear.”

Later in the day, RCMP
officers went to Kilmer Park
and shot a larger black bear,
weighing 500 pounds.

Regional Conservation
Officer for the Fish and
Wildlife Branch Bert Wilson
told the News he has an
officer at Abbotsford
“responding to some of the
complaints,” but added that
on Sunday, “I guess the
RCMP was the only member
available.” He thinks his
Abbotsford officer was
dealing with a complaint in
Squamish at the time.

Wilson said the Ab-
botsford man is the animal
control officer for the area
and that Wilson had given
him details of the locations
on the North Shore where
bears had been reported the
previous week.

Wilson said he did not
arrange for a replacement
for local conservation officer

Adolph who is on holiday as
he could not predict there
would be an outbreak of
bear problems.

He’ said of the depart-
ment’'s coverage of the North
Shore: “We should have a
two-man district, I'm not
disagreeing with that.”

Wilson added that the
reason this is not the case ts
probably a matter of budget.

“It obviously needed a
replacement for this
vacation period but I was. not
in a position to predict there
would be this rash of bear
complaints.”

Monday it was West Van

police who started receiving

calls of bears in yards — in
the 800 blocks of Elveden
Row, Greenwood and Robin
Hood Road ang then later in
the 600 block Barnham.

A sow and three cubs were
reported to be in a vard on
Robin Hood Road = and
Wilson said Fish and
Wildlife received a com-
plaint of the mother and
cubs being on the pearby
golf course.

Again, he said, the
department did not respond.
This time.the reason was that
he would prefer for this bear
family to be captured and
that to do so requires a safe
situation away from
populated areas.

Wilson said the mother
and cubs have been in that
area for about three weeks

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being to tranquillize the cubs
or catch the mother in a live
trap. ;
Again, it would likely be
local conservation officer
Adolph who would set up a
live trap and Wilson added:
“We are aware of that
problem and undoubtedly

there will be a time when we |

will deal with it.”
A West Vancouver police

‘spokesman said officers are

reluctant to shoot bears if
they can avoid?it and prefer
the problem to be dealt with
by Fish and Wildlife:

Monday the police had a
complaint about a different
kind of wildlife problem — a
call from a Horseshoe Bay
resident that a deer was
“vandalizing” a local
vegetable garden.

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