Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 26 No. 19 May 8, 2015
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n Four goslings walk around McGuire Lake on May 1. Meanwhile Sherri Favel and Sue Jordan were attempting to find someone to care for them. Seven goslings were found earlier that day near Safeway. Presumed abandoned, the birds were captured by a Salmon Arm couple who believed them to be ducklings and brought them to the lake. Favell found help at the Kamloops Wildlife Park and the Kamloops SPCA. Residents are urged to call the park, 250-573-3242, ext. 230, if abandoned or injured wildlife are found.
Students clear the way for wildlife By Barb Brouwer
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Dedicated Carlin Elementary School students are making an effort to help save wildlife in the White Lake area. Turtles, both babies and adults, are no match for vehicles as they try to navigate their way in both directions across Parri Road. White Lake Stewards member Trish Wallensteen says last year 58 dead turtles were collected and 74
live turtles got a helping hand to cross the road. “The numbers of hatchling turtles so far this year, starting from April 21 to 30th, is 25 dead and 16 live that were moved across the road,” she said last week. “Of course we hope there are more making it to the lake that we have not observed.” While the turtles cross the road all along the lake, the two most popular crossings are near White Lake Community Hall and boat launch, and the John Evdokimoff
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Bike Skills Park. Turtle eggs are laid from May to July and baby turtles hatch in September, remaining underground until the following spring. As the temperatures warm up from mid April through May, the toonie-size baby turtles begin to move slowly across the road in their quest to reach the lake. “Then they have their biggest hazard. After surviving freezing temperatures and prey in the form of ravens and crows, which dig up
the eggs, and skunks, raccoons and otters, who eat the larger turtles,” Wallensteen says, noting that a turtle’s life is difficult enough without the added challenge of vehicular traffic. While they can’t do a lot about the turtles’ animal predators, the Grade 4 students have created six colourful Coroplast signs to advise drivers to be on the alert for them. “It seems to be so weather depenSee Regional district on page A2
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