:YBLEOWKNIFE, NWT.
_(CP)— Biologist Anne Guna
says the huge caribou herds

“. xoamiing Canada’s northern
{wilderness can survive:

2 Vanothar: ‘century. of bumen
a. Hen and development
~. “aie but they'll need help.

'! Most ‘blologists, she says, |

_ belleve::.that.-with careful
. Management, wild herds of
_ 160,000 animals or moro can
-” Gentinue to exist far into the
future. =

We - have the
management ability,” sald.

Mar Gunn, a caribou ,

Northwest

". The ‘key will be whether
_ Rative groups, governments
and’ Industry can work
. together to preserve the
- majestic animals.
Resource exploration is
_ @ncroaching on the northern
frontier at an increasing rate
and’ caribou herds in the
‘provinces already have
Sy indled to mere shadows of
what they once were, Ms.
Gunn said. The decline is a
clear warning for wildlife
managers In the Yukon and
Northwest Territories.

estimate

- four’ are

In . Alberta, caribou
Bumbered 10,000 or-more in
1008. Today, wildlife officials ©

as 1,000 and a hunting ban is

being discutzed.as away to.
pave the herds, ©

In British -Columbla, a:
1 biologist said the:

‘garibow population in that
viree Is thought to be
tween 13,000 and 20,000 —
half of what it was a few

. decades

ago

“Its very difficult to
-maintaln large herds in the’
face . of continued ex-
pansion,’ said Wallace
MacGregor, big-game - biol-
ogiat for the B.C. fish and-

_wildilfe branch. -

Hesaid access isa catalyst
of decline. :
- "A railroad or a. highway

~. becomes a barrier, and

instead of being nomadic,

_ caribou become isolated and

thelr numbers decline.”
Caribou herds in the
Abin relat iy good th oO.
5 ¥ ape.
Of the: elght- major herds,
growing’ smaller
while one is stable dnd three
are incregsing, biologists

say.

The growing’ populations
are in remote regions. The
80,000-etrong Bluenose herd
loace only 600 animais a year
to. hunters. _

But Beverly herd, with
124,000. animals, is a
reminder of what happens

Elks salt need

_ spring a young elk’s fancy in

a mountain national park.

turns to — a diet of salt on
the TransCanada’ Highway

‘and lush green grass‘on its.
.,, But there is. a third

ingredient in the pastoral
acene, and it is often lethal.

" Dusk heralds killing time .

by. speeding. vehicles as
yD eee Late, dazzle
grass-tating wildite.

_-“'The moose and deer, like

__ thecelk, jump any which way

- = often into an oncoming car
or truck,’ says Frank
Stevens, superintendent of
Yoho National Park.

_ Seventy-five animals, in-
cluding 55 elk, were killed on
the Trans-Canada Highway
in Yoho last year. The year
before the death toll was 42.

-In. addition to the -animals
killed.on the highway, four

rsons died, 14 were in-

_ , 7% vehicle property

accidents were investigated

and 1,674 charges laid. -

“Excessive speed,

especially at night, is the

"pause of most of these:

tragedies,” Stevens anid.
“Night-time . driving
presenta different hazards in
a national park. It is on the

feed and it is there

_ particularly that death and

. injury occur. Property

* damage caused by hitting a

.  §00-pound elk is usually
-... considerable,”

grassy fringes that the.
animals

‘Stevens has a special plea...

_ for drivers going through
Yoho; “Ease up on the gas,
there’s not much we can do
about the animals.”

He said the spring

” But be added the railway

company Is open to talks.
The provincial govern-
ment on the weekend it
wil teiP eritage "Society
ay tage Socie

save a 10-kilometre sectlon

- of the track along one of the
most spectacular sectlons of
and will start

the canyon,
_ pegotiations itself to buy 984
acres in Myra Canyon near

Kelowna.
“We have always been

to negotiate,” said’
CP Rail

- ‘gt: the request of the —

provincial government,

slaughter is frustrating:
“The RCMP last year .in-

creased highway sutveil- @

_ Caribou said needing |
some help tosurvive. J

figure ia'as low |

“agreement on ‘how to

_ Attempts are also ‘being

’ manage the herd so that it

sometimes fatal -—=

~GALGARY (CP) -— Come |

lance for speeders, aircraft .

‘patrols ’ assisted, and we

posted more animal warning.
signs and other safety signs

‘for. drivers, The degree of

success can only be termed
limited.”” ;

Banff National Park, also
split by the Trans-Canada,
has identical problems,

Andy Anderson, chief park

warden at Banff, says are- .
‘limit forsa six:

duced speed
kilometre stretch above
Vermilion Lakes has
reduced motor vehicle ac-
cidents, personal injurles
and animal kills, - .
“Yoho has. the ‘same
problem that Banff has, .a
highway that animals look
upon as’ a ‘juicy long
meadow, with salt for the ice
thrown in ss bonus.’’’

_ In winter animals find the

highway easier to travel

‘than the back country, where

they develop sore legs from

crusted deep snow. In the

spring ice salt and good

gras bring down the elk,
rand moose,

Anderson said Banff park
staff is - investigating
chemicals other than salt to
keep the highway ice-free
but has yet to come up with
anything environmentally
acceptable, ‘or which
wouldn’t take the-bottom off
your car.”

He sald. the creation of |”

meadows off. the highway

would be major and ex-

pensive projects...

“There's a lot of highway--- .

through the national parks..
out here, a lot of animals and

we'd need a lot of meadows." -

" he said in an

ew,

Bower sald tenders for re-
moval of the tracks had been
let and recaived and the con-
tract probably would be
awarded this week.

The 2,00-member society
wants to dave a 62-kilometre
section of the line, which has
not be used since 1973, saying

it is an irreplaceable part of | ;

B.C,'s heritage.
CP Rail plans to use

x

track to refurbish Prairie |

——
— ROTRIESS.
HOWL

Time for fitness
‘| is time on Your Side.

g

‘mittee tomanage the 100,000-

when’. caribou - become
readily available to hunters.
Last winter. the herd
migrated much farther south
than-normal, crogsing well:
into Saskatchewan, and the
mumber killed by hunters
rose to about 16,000. In 1874,
when the ‘herd was less
accesible, 1,146 were

“Talks are under way to
reacha provincial-territorial

manage - caribou that.
migrate across borders,

made’ to set up an. in-
ternational caribou com-

atrong Porcupine herd,
which ates from Alaska
through the northern Yukon
and into the Mackenzie Delta
region of the N.W.T.
‘Tony Keith, an offictal
with the Canadian Wildilfe
ce, 58 e proposed
commission should be able to

will change little over the
next 100 years.

“The only alternative
would be to designate the top
one-third of the Yukon as &
wildilfe range,’ and that
would seem™ pretty ex-
treme.” :

The Porcupine herd is
caught ‘ ‘between — the
resource-rich Beaufort Sea ;
and an expanding human =
population ‘to the south. A
major new highway,
pee ‘transects its ; : .

. Representatives of the Child Development Centre presenta
ee eee ee eset wil certificate of appreciation to the students of Caledonia Senlor
probably foretell the future Secondary School for thelr donations of $3,000. The students
of other herds in more raised the money through a 24-hour dance marathon held fast.

Sot ‘February. The money will be used for a new hydrotherapy

— BUSIN ESS
: “DIREC 1 q) RY : : a

pool at the Development Centre. From left to right are Sheila
Worthington and Janet Easton, from the Centre, Bliss Dodd,
a teacher at Caledonia, Laura Quast and Phyllis Braam,
student council members who organized the event.

_ ; “Photo by Gall Dotinga

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