Koocanusa
A man and his horse
good boating
LONG-RIDER joe guy
Early runoff means reservoir should be full by end of June.
Man to ride Trans Canada Trail on horseback.
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Mark Creek Watershed
A question of access
Snowmobile tour operator wants tenure in watershed
Video still courtesy Courtenay Forster
Margie Jamieson and John Zehnder (with Tess) conduct the aversive conditioning trial in Marysville Wednesday.
Trial a success; what now? C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
The City of Kimberley and the Urban Deer Committee believe that they have successfully demonstrated that using dogs to haze deer and train them to stay out of town is a viable tool in an urban deer management plan. The question is, what happens now? That’s up to the provincial
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government, says Mayor Ron McRae. “I think we’ve demonstrated that it has good possibilities,” he said. “Obviously, it is yet to be seen whether the government will act. But the fact that they did grant the demo — that gives some indication that they may look at shifting some legislation to allow for other possibilities. Video still courtesy Courtenay Forster
See HAZING, Page 3 Bob approaches deer up by the old dump site.
There is a recommendation in front of Council that they not support ventures of these sort in the watershed. The recommendation has come from the Public Works C AROLYN GR ANT and Utilities Committee. editor@dailybulletin.ca At the regular meeting of An issue of access to the Council this week, Jeff Cook, Mark Creek Valley and the from Kimberley Snowmobile Kimberley watershed is Adventures, visited to plead brewing, with Council some- his case, and he does have what divided on support from at the matter. least one CouncilThe City “We’d like to lor, Darryl Oakley. doesn’t own the It is Cook’s potake you up on sition land in the waterthat reshed, nor does it your offer to sponsible recrehave any control ation groups communicate could have a speover some of the activities taking better with cial license of ocplace within it. For cupation in the business.” instance, despite watershed, and in the City’s strong fact act as stewJeff Cook objections, logards and be the ging continues to eyes and ears for be allowed within the City. the watershed. That’s a pro“We have to operate revincial decision. sponsibly. We are in the pubThere are also multiple lic eye,” he said. private users, who simply igCook says that Council is nore signage asking people failing to understand his to stay out and proceed to needs as a businessman. recreate as they wish within The Mark Creek Valley is the watershed. perfect for his tour business Council acknowledges because of its proximity to that without 24 hour security town, quick access to good — an impossibility — there views, good cell phone covwill continue to be plenty of erage for emergencies, and people accessing the water- low avalanche hazard, he shed. says. However, Council can “If we lose access to the control some commercial watershed, we can’t sustain uses, and the issue before our business,” he said. them at the moment is He added that his compawhether to allow an enter- ny was extremely sensitive to prise like a snowmobile tour the ecology of the watershed. operator to run tours on trails in the watershed. See ACCESS , Page 4
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