A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 3, 1996 Sneaky bears removed Bugs worked out of electric fence at dump By DAVE TAYLOR BEARS HEADING to the Terrace dump this year for some post-hibernation mus- chies will be out of luck as they meet with six feet and 7,000 volts of electrified fence. , The fence, which was in- stalled Jast fall, has so far done a good job of keeping bears away: from.. human food and garbage, according lo conservation officers, “The fence has been suc- cessful for°sure,’? says af- ficer Ken Fujino. ‘No bears in duinp equals success.”’ Two bears did actually manage to figure out bow to get around the problem. They waited for the gate to be opened for: garbage trucks, then zipped - inside, loaded up with- refuse, and zipped out, | > Both bears had been lagged previously,-so they were destroyed by couserva- tion officials. - Another bear found an even sneakier roule.’ When the fence was first powered up, the female learned she could climb the corner pasts to pet inside without petting shocked. ‘'That was due to a design flaw,”? says Jim Hofweber, municipal — environmental protection bead for the region, “‘Our regular con- tracior was not used at the Terrace site, olher fences don’t have that problem.”? But Fujino says the flaw has since been fixed, and the bear that Jearned the trick has not returned this year ZAPII1 That's what will happen now to bears that try to sneak into the Terrace dump. An electric fence has been powered up there, and so far things look gaod. Complaints are down and the dump fence is a success, despite cagey tactics by a couple of sly bruins. after being tagged and relo- cated last fall. In fact, Fujino says there haven’t been any complaints from neighbors about marauding bears at all so far this spring. Hofweber and Fujino both agree that this kind of success means the fences seem to be doing their jab. “Our basic strategy is to provide bear-proofing at all solid waste facilities within the next two years,” says Hofweber, ‘‘We’re picking oul the priority ones depending on the number of complaints,” The Thornhill dump was a site that was planned to be fenced immediately. But Hofweber has given the, bears there a stay of elec- trocution for two years. “The district needs time to figure out the future of the site,’’ says Hofweber. **But if the dump is still op- erating in two years, it will have a fence.’ One of the next landfills on the list is the dump at New Aiyansh, a site visited by a large number of grizzly bears. The fence was in- stalled last fall, but it hasn’t been powered up yet. “The fence is ready to ga,’” says Hofweber, *‘But timing is important. Con- cervation officers prefer to go in the fall when the most bears congregate al sites.” Hofweber isn’t worried that the frequent power out- ages in Aiyansh could result in bears crashing through the fences like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, **Most fences are powered. by a baltery,”? he says. “And the bears would have been relocated at that paint anyway. Fences don’t go up without (bear) management programs in effect, or else you could have serious problems — Jurassic Park situations,”’ Cable TV planned for Jackpine Flats SKEENA Cablevision's plan to install cable lincs to Jackpine Flats, along- side the natural gas line, has fallen through. However, the company siill plans to put cable into the arca by this fall. For the past two weeks a contracting company has been digging a trench for the gas line. The cable line was supposed to accompany this line, thereby saving Skeena Cablevision some instalation costs, However, the contracting company used a different kind of machinery to install the gas line, and that meant cable couldn’t go in at the same time. “Now we have to find an altemate way to to do it,’’ says Norm Saele of Skeena Broadcasters. He says a survey being conducted in Jackpine Flats indicates there is suffi- cient interest in cable in the arca, Cable lines will likely be available throughout Jackpine, up to the Wil- liams Creek bridge, he says. The cable company is also looking at the cost of installing lines north of town, past Dover Rd., and in a few other areas, but no firm plant have been made yet. 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