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A trial project to translocate urban mule deer from four communities in the East Kootenay will begin later this winter.
Animal Alliance looking forward to relocation trial ARNE PETRYSHEN
Animal Alliance of Canada is one of the project partners in the upcoming recently announced mule deer relocation trial. A trial project to translocate urban mule deer from four communities in the East Kootenay will begin later this winter. Mule deer will be live-captured in Elkford, Cranbrook, Kimberley and Invermere, and transported to winter range areas in the East Kootenay where natural non-urban mule deer populations have been in decline for several years. Liz White, executive director of the organization, said they are looking forward to the project. “As you know, we’ve been part of opposing
the deer culls that occurred in Elkford, Kimberley, Cranbrook, Invermere… over the last few years,” White said, adding that when the government decided they would look at non-lethal alternatives, Animal Alliance agreed to participate. “So that’s what we’re doing in hopes that municipalities will begin looking at a variety of different non-lethal alternatives that I think will begin to help kind of deal with specific issues that culling clearly does not,” she said. “There are animals that they say are a problem, but there’s no guarantee that those animals are the ones being killed in the traps. It calls into question the efficacy of the culling.”
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Kim Bandet of Cranbrook is pictured aboard her new Harley Davidson 750 Street Motorcycle, down at Harley Davidson of the Kootenays on Friday afternoon, Dec. 24. Bandet was the second prize winner in Harley Davidson of the Kootenays’ annual raffle in support of Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society. See more on Page 3. Brian Catinas of Victoria won third prize — a Harley Davidson bar table and chairs, and the first prize winning raffle ticket belonged to Herb and Gary Janzen of Wardner — who won the Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe.
Jumbo appeals B.C. decision Cites friendship between Minister Mary Polak, Ktunaxa Nation Chair Katherine Teneese C ANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER - Backers of a proposed ski resort say the decision by British Columbia’s environment minister to stymie the project was inappropriately affected by her friendship with one of the project’s most prominent critics. Jumbo Glacier Resort has filed documents in B.C. Supreme Court highlighting Environment Minister Mary Polak’s personal relationship
with Ktunaxa Nation chair Katherine Tenesse, a longtime opponent of the project. They allege this impacted her decision not to renew a lapsed environmental assessment certificate for the controversial proponent. The billion-dollar resort proposed for southeastern B.C. has been decades in the making and sparked fierce opposition from locals, First Nations and environmental
groups. Polak decided in June not to renew Jumbo’s certificate because she found the project hadn’t been substantially started within five years of the environmental approval being granted, as is required by law. But Jumbo’s submission appealing the minister’s decision blames the government for delays in construction, saying the province dragged its feet in granting a development
agreement. A spokesman for the Environment Ministry declined comment, saying it would be inappropriate to do so while the matter is before the courts. The year-round ski resort project would be located about 55 kilometres west of Invermere and is designed to span just over one square kilometre and boast a hotel with 6,250 beds.