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Bond In Investing Savings A provincial consultant's report says sloppy camp conditions and questionable hunting practices are creating an extreme danger of attacks on humans, and the needless slaughter of grizzlies in B.C.'s Northern Rockies.

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Bond In Investing Stock "The conflict rate is unusually high," he concluded in his report, obtained by The Vancouver Sun after a freedom-of-information request. "I rate ... hunting [of hooved animals] in the [Muskwa-Kechika] as a very high-risk outdoor pursuit for both humans and grizzlies."

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Bond Debt High In Inside In 2000 in the Muskwa-Kechika -- a 6.3-million-hectare management area centred in the Northern Rockies northwest of Fort St. John -- hunters shot at least 13 grizzlies in conflict situations, including five breeding-age females and some of their offspring.

Bond Greenville Greenville In about half of those cases, grizzlies were shot at camp. Other grizzlies were shot in the field while hunters sought prey such as moose and caribou. McCrory said "most hunters' natural reaction is to try to shoot their way out of the situation, not always with success."

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Bond Investing Municipal McCrory recommends the use of small, portable electric fences to be placed around hunting camps and game. Over the longer term, he urged an "aggressive program of bear-proofing all storage facilities and structures" to protect hunters and grizzlies.

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Bond Business Investing Stock "Under the circumstances, the hazard for guests ... was rated extreme, particularly for nocturnal treks to the privy facilities," McCrory said in his report.

Bond Houston Houston Andy Ackerman, the province's regional wildlife manager in Fort St. John, said Wednesday that McCrory's "balanced" report provides the basis for making wilderness travel in the Muskwa-Kechika safer for hunters and hikers.

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Investment Bond Uk He also encouraged hunters to carry pepper spray, especially since it might not be possible to use a rifle in a surprise or close-quarter encounter with a bear, and to receive better education on camping techniques when hunting.

Bond Trading Strategy In defence of hunters he argued that with limited-entry hunting regulations, the population of grizzlies is increasing in the north. He added it is not always possible to be able to erect a cross-pole high enough to escape a bear's reach, adding little can be done to avoid encounters with bears attracted to left-over guts at a kill site.

Bond Fixed In Income Investing McCrory urged a more detailed study of all 700 hunting camps in the Muskwa-Kechika, a wilderness laced with designated routes for resident hunters on all-terrain vehicles or horseback. Ackerman said there is no budget for more work right now.

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Bond Management Market Risk On its Web site for parks in the Muskwa-Kechika, the ministry of water, land and air protection encourages visitors to "store garbage with your food, out of reach of bears," to pack out garbage, and to not sleep in clothes that might carry cooking odours.

Bond In Investing Municipal Larry Pynn
Vancouver Sun - 12/1/2003

Topic: Grizzly Bear

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