The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 27, 1993 - Page BS Sports Menu, TERRACE STANDARD SPORTS NEWS MALCOLM BAXTER 638-7283 Page B6 ‘Fred Seiler is an avid hunter who has stalked game in this area.all his life. “When the season is over he spends a lot of time prowling the winter landscape ‘looking for signs of moose. . The movements of animals stand out : vividly against the backdrop of winter: ‘| one. can, follow the track of a woil over ‘the meandering prints a cow and calf; [large depressions in the snow show where moose have bedded down at dark. Gut, piles stand out vividly in winter too. _ » Pred recently counted six between the ‘Exchamsiks and Terrace, He was furious, “T was on my way back to town,” Fred told mé, “‘when I spotted some natives ‘ina. pickup truck eycballing a cow standing just off the road. I pulled over ta watch. They looked at me, then at the ‘moose, then they took off, so ¥ did too.” . Fred: came back later. The cow was still in the same area, but in pieces. Her ‘calf Was there too standing beside severed head and butchered remains of its ‘mother. “ I went back on Saturday with my. camera,” Fred told me. “That was five. days later, and the calf was still there. When you shoot a cow in the winter, you’re killing three moose,” Fred.‘added. “The cows are usually pregnant and their calves will be wolf bait." . Troubled by what he had secn, by a logging truck driver’s report of no less than 12 kills along a mere 4 kilometres of haul road; and a Lomak driver’s story of frightening away a crew of native ‘|-gunners who had plugged a cow moose crossitig the ice on the Exstew River, Fred went to see the local conservation ‘officer. where ‘safety or conservatio were’ a concern, there was nothing theo officer could do. ‘Until a short time ago the Fish and Wildlife Branch issued sustenance permits that allowed people on social assistance to shoot moose out of season. Thankfully this absurd practise was discontinued. Now hunters must plan their hunts for the fall -- all hunters save for nalives. To Fred and other hunters this law runs counter to the principles of conservation, discriminates against a segment of our socicty on the basis of culture and colour and is therefore openly racist. since moose only began colonizing this country in the 1930’s, the natives here certainly: can’t claim moose meat was a staple fare for their ancestors. - Perplexed, I made a couple of calls to Victoria. I found out is there is no law, ‘but there is policy to this effect that is ‘LT being driven by two recent court decisions. “In the Delgamuukw Case, the learned judge ruled a ‘Gitksan hunter’s right to “Lshoot' ‘moose for sustenance and ‘ceremonial or cultural purposes took o precedence over hunting regulations that apply. to’ the rest of us so long as there ‘was no concern for safety, and the game was shot on crown land within what natives claim as tribal territory. The Sparrow Decision put native fishing ‘requirements, below the conservation requirements of ihe salmon but above those of the sport and commercial fishermen, ‘Fearing more precedent setting legal decisions, government is trying to sel up co-management regimes with the natives inthe Hope of establishing their requirements and enforcing quotas with pounced wilh near duplicate runs of 1:17.51 and 1:17.60 Saturday to finish 10th in his group and top among its Ters race contingent. Nearly .90. racers took. part. in. the events, sponsored by Clearly Candin and Ford of Canada, attacked the wide open spaces with enthusiasm {above), playing rotating two and a half minute shifts. it was a taste of things to come when they graduate up the minor hackey ladder. Cal crushes all comers CRUELTY - that's about the only way to describe the Caledonia Kermodes treatment of their opposi- tion at a recent Hazelton tournament, Kut, says coach Cam MacKay, Cal did try a litile kindness too. He explained two Kermode teams had been entered: an ‘A’ team made up of the first line players, and a ‘B’ Squad. consisting of the remainder of the team, However, that game plan changed after only one quarter of the ‘A’ team’s first game, Facing Houston, the ‘A’ team were 50 overpowering MacKay pulled them after the first and sent in the ‘B's. Not that even that helped Houston much, the Kermodes crushing them 103-41. Fernanda Milhomens led the scoring with 18, Jassie Osei-Tutu chipped in 17 and Fraser McKay and Dean Beeson both added 16. MacKay said the ‘A? players also pot ‘*a lot of rest’’ in their second pame as well, a 91-34 clobbering of Kitimat's Mount Elizabeth squad. Even with limited court time, how- ever, McKay racked up 24 and Mil- homens 16. That set up the final against Charles Hays, a much tighter game, at least to begin with, Cal holding a 47-43 edge nt the half. However, five fateful seconds in the third quarter sunk Hays’ hopes. Recalling the game had started to get “choppy” towards the end of the first half, MacKay sald the officials con- tinued to let the players get away with it in the third. With Cal up by 10 points, MacKay said two Kermodes “mugged” a Hays player. When even this was not called, the Hays player slammed his hand on the floor in dispust’-- ‘anid picked"up a technical foul for the outburst.’ 2... That drew a strenuous protest from the Hays coach -- which, in turn, drew another technical foul, The Kermodes proceeded to sink all four free throws and then got three more from Milhomens on the in- bound ball. That was. seven points in about five seconds,’ MacKay said, adding it proved the back breaker for Hays. Cal went on to win 99-79, led by Mil- homens (31), McKay (29) and Kurt Muller whose 22 was a personal best. McKay was named tournament MVP while Milhomens was selected for the all-star team. The ‘DB’ team, playing under their own banner, opened wilh a 78-32 loss to Hays, were edged 74-68 by Smithers and closed with an even narrower loss, 59.55 to Houston. However, MacKay pointed out, by the time they took on Houston, ‘‘They were just dead tired.” CONCENTRATION was the name of the game at the Knights of Columbus - annual free throw contest held at Verilas school on Saturday, Above, Fraser de Walle goes through his pre-throw ritual as he prepares to sink another one, “De Walle went on to win the Boys 12 years division. Other boys winners were Dustin Sampson (10), Fernando Medeiros (11), Gam Harris (13) and Paul “Sampson (14). On the girls’ side, top spats went to Germaina Carita (10), "Andrea Van Gelder (12), Kristy McKay {13) and Leah de Walle (14).