From front A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Bear hunt could affect Kermode Provincial government biologists are even more skep- tical. Matt Austin, the province's large carnivore spe- cialist, says continuing to hunt black bears but not white ones — which are protected — should thecretically work in favour of the bears with the Kermode gene, “You could argue a hunt that allows black coat to be taken but not white is increasing the white coat popula- tion over time,” he said, Genetics aside, he says, it's coat colour that matters. “The ones people think of as Kermode bears are the white ones among them,” Austin says. “I personally de- _ fine a Kermode bear as the ones with the white coat co- louration.” He believes the. recessive Kermode gene is found in black bears elsewhere in B.C. and. beyond —- the bears with the gene are just so rare they don’t usually find one of their own kind to mate with and produce white cubs. “We could have this gene out there to a certain level in the black bear population but we could almost never see it,” Austin says. White bears have shown up in other regions. “There have been more than one in the Liard Hot Springs area,” Austin said. And he and Ritland both also point to a white black From front Grade shift mulled “There’s no reason to panic on whether that ‘school is open or closed. We know we have a little time here,” said Penner. Although the school is empty, the board has a year’s grace in that the facility is covered under its general insurance poticy. A continuing vacancy past one year would. mean the board would have to arrange for special insurance coverage. “{ have nothing in mind for Mountainview when it comes to a middle school,” said Penner. “We would first have to look at the facilities to- gether and see how they would fit in.” “And it would have to be something that would not be cost prohibitive,” said Penner. She added that school population levels, which have been dropping, would also be a determining factor in deciding if a change in grade grouping would make sense. 9 YEARS AGO f SUBSCRIBERS TO Skeena Cablevision have lost y access to the Portuguese station RTP which aired on § a channel 38, § §=«©Canadian airing of the channel was not author- B g ized by the Canadian Radio Television Telecommu- nications Commission (CRTC), which regulates the J broadcast industry. ; Skeena Cablevision will now apply to the CRTC to have the station authorized, says Chris Kofoed, Skeena Cablevision customer sales and service { manager. Aug, 26, 1998. 10 YEARS AGO ROBERT WILSON has become the first inmate to J escape from the new Terrace Regional Correctional Centre. Wilson, 19, who is serving time for robbery, left the minimum security centre around supper time | Aug. 17, said regional corrections director Rob Watts last week. Terrace RCMP were alerted as were RCMP in Prince Rupert because Wilson has relatives in that § city, said Watts, Wilson spent the first part of his sentence al the correctional centre in Prinee George and was trans- | ferred here in preparation for his release. August 24, 1993. 15 YEARS AGO THE NISGA’A say one of the northwest’s most valu- § able cash crops is being lost to them - and they’re f intending to do something about it. At issue are pine mushrooms, which grow widely in the Nass Valley on reserve land and within areas claimed by the Nisga’a. Wanting a piece of the economic action, the Gil- laxdamix band council of New Aiyansh is pondering the business of buying and marketing pine mush- rooms. They're hoping to improve the area’s dismal job- less statistics. Nisga’a Tribal Council figures pul the unemployment rate in New Aiyansh at 74-90 per cent, August 24, 1988, From the archives of The Terrace Standard — your focal newspaper of record since 1988. Construction, Terrace Your Local Highway & Bridge Maintenance Contractor Ph: (250) 638- 881 F bear found in Minnesota in 1997, It wasn't an albino, but didn’t carry the Kermode gene either, suggesting yet another anomaly may have been responsible, Then there’s the glacier bear -an extremely rare bruin with a coat described as greyish or bluish found in the Tatshenshini region in B.C.’s far northwest corner. Although Ritland wants more research. to conduct bet- ter population counts, the government's official position - is that the Kermode is doing fine: “We don’t consider them threatened or endangered or at risk,” Austin said; demanding a large logging-free. preserve for the. white bears centred on Princess Royal Island. The same groups say the bears require unlogged old-growth forest. | But Austin says-he hasn't seen evidence.of-that.. “I’m not aware of anything that suggests white coat bears are more impacted by forest harvesting than ones of black coat,” he said. Bears are highly adaptable, he added, and may even enjoy a temporary increase in food supply after logging as new vegetation springs up in cut blocks. | “Habitat changes from forestry can be neutral to in the short term even beneficial,” he said. From front Sale is not end for contractor then jumped back in a few years later. “We sold out when it was tough before,” the 50-year industry veteran said. “It does take a certain amount of money to hang onto this equipment.” He says the auction of his equipment will be the lar- gest Terrace has ever seen —the same claim he was able to make in 1982. He has no plans to sell his evergreen contract with | New Skeena Forest Products, which guarantees cutting rights to up to 166,000 cubic metres per year, Cutler hopes the sawmill and pulp mill, both closed now for more than two years, will get up and running, but says he has lost confidence that New Skeena presi- dent Dan Veniez will succeed in carrying out his plan. “It doesn’t loak good until probably next year this time,” he said, added it could be even longer. Cutler says his logging and road-building operation has had very little work for three years now. Besides New Skeena’s difficulties, Cutler blames a combination of a high Canadian dollar and low prices in Japan. 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