- Hivestock production.

: =e

and. wildlife. director: ‘Don.

_-Robinson,
~ Recreation.
_ servation =
 Bawif.

“In gays of: yore 1 worked a |
“summer: ‘near one of B. ec: s  Butit was very hot and there
n wasn’t any wind to: ‘blow the -
--stench:or. the flies away, :so_

* we never got any Closer than —
Many. cases.the. area en -—

~ closed by the barbed wire is
“so vast that the cattle are ~
- seen once a year - sometinnes -

cattle. ranches. Cattle,

B. Cc are grazed i in what was

- once wilderness, © and —

Tess - ~ by the rancher. os

“They - (graze away. “fom,
humans for months at a time:
--and.are almost as wild’as the
_ “animals they have displaced.
ee - the deer. and caribou and: ae

“just spat out of the: window —
of the: truck and. refused to :
discuss. the: matter. further.

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Sepne, mename @ Srerne ,

“faking. short oat aa ae |
: back to camp when Io
found the carcass of a:steer.
- that had been dead for. some -
to. time. ©
yn- © reported it to my boss. ‘When.
‘Minister. “Sam :

‘states acting: fish ~

he «drove. me. ..bac
= come-along ° ‘and. the = other.
wos truck. we. -detoured -

a examine the: ‘stinking tines. A oa

‘government . _
- predators: T - ‘can't. “help.

thinking. of that incident. |
| -Cattle are ‘cattle. : They're.
|: - bred for “beef, not. brains, _
-|:- and they die’ of 1 many causes |
| ‘having nothing’ to do: ‘with-

“The. reduction: of wolf. & .
and ‘coyote “numbers is -
- recommended in. other areas

I‘kept going; »

Ki with ©

perhaps ten feet or. So. . We s wal

went back to the truck.

oe was very’ curious’ about :

a, tong t tite parmalloy head -
“alr. damped elect Pend

fc Full ute SOP 7 ape ‘iu , she li lon
Dolby'systen: : - “Separate! as & equa zat on:
Beers by the Be ‘dat ao. "output level control « S80b b signal tonoise

--eatibou. ‘in. some areas — of
- northern B con ‘are. declining:
in. humbers, a and this i rol bein

- predatio a veeaible « cause,
ooh some, © caribou declines.’ fa

what had killed the animal, - _exerte or.

and ‘asked him. what he —
thought. “Wolves” was the som
monosyllabic _ reply. “What as

makes you ' think « so?” I ones wh st

‘of: bush-wise answer, but: ‘he.

At ‘the ‘time. I. was: only...

‘sixteen.and easily: awed, and”
“took “his reticence. to be —
o back-woods_ manliness, ‘but.
Im. .pretty sure ‘he. knew
| Jabout.as much as to what ©
i- killed the steer asI did. .

 Byery ‘time. 1 hear of

ranchers ‘Petitioning | jhe

wolves. They grow old and —

die, or fall. and break their,
. legs, or are shot by hunters
by mistake, and a week or so
after |
especially after some hot
| weather, it must be very .
| difficult to ‘tell: what the:
‘| actual cause of their demise
.| was. To complicate matters, |

‘they’: are . dead,

‘bears and. other. carrion-
eaters often scatter the

remains.

Wildlife management : isa
very, inéxact art, in ‘my
opinion. - Government is
politics, and governments.
respond to. lobbies and
pressure, . groups.. Farley |
Mowat, in his warm and

. interesting: book ‘Never Cry.

Wolf; writing, about his days

‘as .a ‘federal government |
~ biologist,: says they are’ “the |
‘civic=minded. and disin-

Fire demonstration —

~ The three fire depart-

ments of the North Shore
will. join forces Thursday

evening at 6:30 at Capilano
Mall for a demonstration of

. firefighting. techniques as an —
‘ early kick off for Fire
. Prevention Week | starting |

October 9.

As a special feature, the

, interference, oT
“poison

‘then poison the wolves -- :

show off their prowess in. af

firemen.

asked, expecting some kind . skins

territories. a

The | primary | ‘reason. ‘for
“the decline of. ‘species. such as
the caribou is. man’s in-.-
“ terference in’ the. natural |
_order Of things.. Taking away.-
the: caribou “habitat by
‘putting: barbed wire: fences
“across it, and building. roads.
that. ‘bring | ‘hunters ef-
fortlessly into the middle of
previously remote . areas is.

“The | “wolves. and the
caribou have been working it”
out for ten thousand years or.
‘more. If there are too many,
wolves for the caribou then’
_ they will have to find. other.
- food or starve - and they eat 5
lots of things: besides cattle.
They eat mice - - Mowat ‘saw: a
one wolf: which ate. ‘twenty-" im
three. - and. many. other, |
small creatures. -

"Northern B Cc. \ fanchers. a
lose one. to two per cent of © a . ny, OY APG. os
their livestock annually to: . Zi et ff... pa mer a
wolves and.’ coyotes. . The - Pe
B.C. government has been. ‘|
actively — poisoning wolves -. \
since 1975, and the drop in’:
. the loss rate for the ranchers
has been only a fraction of a:
per cent. Wolves have, for. A
hundreds: of | years, ..been ©
‘blamed: for many : things. q
‘When will we ever learn that
the animals hove: a mem. to.
life as well? a

t ' ‘ ‘
mortem reememrnen tat

To: shoot. the ‘caribou and
_ that's wildlife management? *

mayors, of North Van City,” ‘
West Van and - North. Van —
District will be on hand to.

fire fighting demonstration.

8: :00 1 P. M. “OCTOBER 6
ss 00. -— $3.50. students/seniors.

__For details phone 986- 4011

.

‘Aerial: ladder work ‘and. :
‘rapelling down the side of:
the Sears building will oll be |
part of the: show’ ‘by the

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