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Police take two into custody following Langford shooting Page A3 Friday, January 30, 2015
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Gunning for fairness on the hunting front B.C. Wildlife Federation, local fish and game association, hear from angry hunters
Mike Davies Reporting
The ballroom of the Four Points by Sheraton in Langford isn’t normally filled with burly men in camouflage, trading stories of moose hunting and giving advice on who’s best to butcher their deer. Tuesday night was the exception. Amidst the cheerful story swapping, however, a palpable sense of tension and frustration lay beneath the surface of the group – over 100
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strong – as they milled about the room waiting for the microphone to click on. There was a feeling amongst those in the hall that their government is ripping them off. “Are we privatizing a public resource?” came the rhetorical question from the front once the presentation began. Al Martin, director of strategic initiatives for the B.C. Wildlife
Federation, was trying to address that issue in Langford and at similar forums around the province, in response to recent changes to B.C.’s Wildlife hunting tag allocation policy. The policy allocates the division of wildlife resources between resident and non- B.C. resident hunters who utilize guides, but only after accounting for conservation needs and the constitutionally protected
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hunting rights of First Nations. “Basically, when you take conservation requirements off the (wildlife) populations and you take First Nations use off the populations, what’s left is what’s allocated between these two groups,” he told the gathering. PleASe See: Hunters, Page A6
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