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lunting geese upsets Island residents here

“ Ry DON SCHARFER

“Wearescaredthatthe of the provincial they aren’t on public “The Braun’s Island. Crack said the area ago when she first moved “We axpect to get just

Herald Staff Writer hunters will drive the government, sald the property. area ia one of the few in wasamajorstopon their into that area, but they about 100 per cent of the
eam are hunting geese away from the area has been designated — Now that the islandis a the Northwest where the flight south because of were driven away by people in this area to sign
by Braun’s Island area altogether," Penner a baiting area, where the baitingarea,therecanbe geese can stop, rest,and the importance of the hunters anddidn'treturn the petition,” she said,

id the residents of the
diate area aren’t

, ‘oo ‘happy about it.

~. Diane Penner, who

said. “There have been
about $5 faken in the last
couple of weks, and if the
hunting keeps up the
geese are liable to leave

geese can feed andit is no,
longer legal to hunt on
Braun’s Island.

The district of Terrace

no hunting’ within 400.

meters of: the posted
area,

Crack said that. while

get green grass to eat,”
he said, “Grass is im-
portant for their diet, and
if they are driven away
from this area, it will

grass,

After complaints were
made by residents, the
hunters were. persuaded
to move across the river

for three years. She and
other.realdents are afraid
that if the geese are
driven away again, they
won't return at all.

However, she said that
there were signs that a
disturbing attitude is
surfacing.

“Some people are‘

‘owns-a farm close to the [he area for good.” boundary excludes the theareaisnotan official affect their nutritipn and to shoot the geese from “We have flocks of getting the idea that the

idland, ‘ls getting up a island and it was.legalto feeding area, it is an possibly cut down on the theotherside, accoringto three hundred geese here geese won't be back

_petition to have the area . Dave Crack,  a& hunt there, aslongasthe important area for the mumbers that will make rack. Most of the some days, but usually again anyway, so why not

‘declared a refuge area in Tepresentative of the fish hunters stay outside the geese on their migration the “ journey suc- hunting takes place at the average is around shoot them while they're
: ader to stop the hunting. and wildlife department boundaries and along as south. cessfully.” - dusk, because this is 50," she sald, ‘People here?” Penner said.

MacKay balks at dis cipline,
so Socred wants Kempf’s head

. cae (CP) --

when the geese move
from the flat open land of
Braun’s Island to the
more sheltered, treed
area across the river.
“They move across
because they. are
vulnerable to too many
predators on open
ground,’’ said Crack.
"The area on the other

come down here to just sit
and watch the geese, but
if the hunting continues:
there may be no geese
left to watch.”

She said that she was
pleased that Crack had
taken some action, but
wants a more permanent
solution to the problem,
This is why she has

She said that this
wasn't the right attitude,
and that the geese
deserve a chance to rest
on their trips.

Crack agrees. He said
area such as Braun's
Island are vital to the
geese’s migration. ‘‘The
island is a staging area
for the geese , an Im-

Jack election campaign was central B.C, town of Van Kempf said he is still NDP but he has turned the side offers them more. started a petition to get portant part of their
Kempf should be fired from recorded and sent to con- derhoof who claims to have trying to determine whether letter over to the RCMP - protection.”’ area declared an official habitat. If the habitat is
his job'as Social Credit party stituencies throughout the written anti-Social Credit Bruce Kanary is a card- which is conducting a Penner said the geese feeding area, and thus a lost, so are the animals,”
ieaucug chairman if he can't province. letters undera phoney name. carrying member of the: Province-wide investigation. were plentiful ten years refuge for the birds. “It’s that simple.”
fecide acon how to discipline Mitchell, now executive

a. member of his staff im-
‘plicated in the party's dirty

_wandal, government
‘whip George: Mussallem sald
‘Monday.

"Mussallem’s statement
‘came after caucus resear-
‘her: Ellen MacKay refused
Kempf's. demand ‘that she

omiver and is used by the
organization as a marine

assistant to Eeucation
Minister Pat MecLeer,
refuses to comment on her
statements,

Kempf said he was not sur-
prised by Ms. MacKay's re-
sponse and will be seeking
his colleagues advice on

what to do next. He said he ©

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