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...The sight of a hunter shooting at a bear while standing just off Highway 99 north of Whistler on May 20 shocked Pemberton resident Lana Beattie enough that she reported the incident to authorities. She was shocked even more when she learned that an investigation found he had done nothing wrong, prompting her and Sylvia Dolson of the Get Bear Smart Society to call for tougher rules about hunting near a roadway. The Wildlife Act allows hunters to shoot at wildlife if they're at least 15 metres from the road's centerline, it's hunting season and they do not shoot across the road. Dolson said she thinks the Highway 99 no-shooting area between West Vancouver and Squamish — which prohibits hunting within 400 metres west of the road and one kilometre east of it — should be extended northward to the area between Squamish and Pemberton..
...While it was still early in the 2009 bear season, people working to reduce human-bear conflict by preventing bears from accessing garbage in Whistler said they were "encourage" by a dramatic reduction in the number of calls of bear sightings so far this year. Conservation Officer Drew Milne on June 23 said call volume was down almost 50 per cent compared to the first part of the 2008 season. One-hundred fourteen calls had been received from April 14 to June 23, compared to 209 for the same period last year, and as yet, no bears had been destroyed by conservation officers in '09....
The Best of Whislter 2009
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Best Excuse for Being Late
Snow. What other excuse is there in Whistler?....... Poorer excuses for being late include seeing bears on the Valley Trail, but that too proved a good excuse here. Some people just don't know that bears won't bother you if you don't bother them..........
