$1000 reward for information on poached grizzly

[shottyshooter]

I wish we had more CO's to patrol the areas

I think anyone convicted of poaching should lose all possession and hunting
rights for life

Scary stuff considering government logic...

No money for CO's could result in punishing the honest hunter with more restrictions and hoops to jump through. Not to mention that the poacher probably doesn't have proper licencing anyways and like most of the bad guys that the public thinks firearms laws are "dealing with" - this poacher will carry on no matter what legal ramifications he has to ignore... I mean continue to ignore - repeatedly. Cuz he knows that we can't afford a CO to watch him 24/7/365!

I'm new to the forum, and hunting, but holy cow! Our fellow man's ability to sewer everyone else is ridiculous.

[Deer_Slayer]

I think self defense doesn't include mutilating the carcass unless it was Jackie Chan...hmmmm but maybe ??

[Deer_Slayer]

Probably someone with a shiny new gun who also has a shiny new BMW and a few Porches sitting in his driveway in lower mainland! Hope he enjoys looking through some not so shiny iron bars in jail..scumbag

[bandit]

Probably someone with a shiny new gun who also has a shiny new BMW and a few Porches sitting in his driveway in lower mainland! Hope he enjoys looking through some not so shiny iron bars in jail..scumbag

Fortunately our law enforcement officers are blessed with slightly more sophisticate investigation techniques than this and are not motivated simply by jealousy. Perhaps these unproductive comments would be best kept to the Robson Square occupy site. Perhaps you can pin illegal wildlife poaching onto the 1% on top of all the other things they actually did do. One extra charge hardly makes any difference.

[Riverbc]

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Griz...245/story.html

A 317-kilogram, male grizzly bear was found shot and mutilated Thursday in the Pemberton area.

Conservation officers said they received a call around 4 p.m. Thursday about a grizzly-bear carcass found just off a forest service road.

"Our officers attended, and we did locate a very large male grizzly that was dead with what appears to be bullet holes in it," Insp. Chris Doyle said Friday.

"Some parts had been removed from the bear."

Doyle did not say which bear parts were removed, saying that the specifics could jeopardize the investigation.

While grizzly-bear hunting is allowed in certain parts of B.C., it is illegal in Pemberton, said Doyle.

The penalty could be up to a $100,000 fine and one year in jail.

"In this area, the numbers [of grizzlies] are not viable to support any kind of hunting," Doyle said.

"The loss of an animal like this can have a significant impact on the population."

Doyle said the last time a grizzly bear was shot in Pemberton was in 2004.

The David Suzuki Foundation said in March that 317 grizzly bears were killed in B.C. in 2010, mostly due to trophy hunting.

The number is slightly lower than previous years, but the environmental organization said grizzly mortality may be double that because many deaths go unreported, mostly as a result of illegal poaching.

Anyone with information about the grizzly death in Pemberton can call the Report All Poachers and Polluters program at 1-877-952-7277 .

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[Buckzilla]

Rumour has it; as of last night a suspect has turned himself in and is in custody. Looking forward to more details....

[pazz0]

Any word on this?

[alfleslie]

I'ld turn the ******* in for free if I new who did it

[Gateholio]

The Pemberton Wildlife Association is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who has information about the poaching of a grizzly bear in the Pemberton area on Nov. 17.
The 317-kilogram, male grizzly was shot and mutilated just off a forest service road. Grizzly-bear hunting is illegal in Pemberton because population numbers are extremely low. A suspect has been identified and interviewed, but conservation officers are still looking for witnesses.
Pemberton Wildlife Association president Clarke Gatehouse said the grizzly bear that was shot and had parts removed was well-known to local hunters.
“There’s not a lot of grizzly bears in this area. The ones we do have, we feel strongly about protecting them and we don’t want this to happen again,” he said on Tuesday. “We have to do something to make it attractive for anybody with information to come forward.”
According to the David Suzuki Foundation, four of the nine threatened grizzly bear populations in B.C. reside near Pemberton. Conservation consultant Jeff Gailus said fewer than 100 grizzly bears live in isolated units around Pemberton, Squamish and Lillooet, making reproduction difficult.
“The fact that a bear is poached is a cause for concern because there aren’t very many bears moving back and forth, so it’s really critical for bears that are trying to move back and forth in the Pemberton area and Squamish and Lillooet to be able to move without getting killed,” he said. “It’s hard enough just with the cars on the highways, and the fact that sometimes grizzly bears get into people’s garbage and attractants and they meet an untimely death.
“Having poaching being an additional problem is quite concerning.”
Anyone with information about the grizzly death can call the Report All Poachers and Polluters line at 1-877-952-7277.

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[Gateholio]

Reward offered for information on Pemberton bear poacher

Conservation Service looking for public’s assistance to find bear’s killer By Andrew Mitchell
The Pemberton Wildlife Association is offering a $1,000 reward for information about the shooting of a 317-kilogram grizzly bear near Pemberton.
Clarke Gatehouse of the PWA said their organization has never offered a reward like this before, but it's an unusual event.
"We've never had a grizzly bear that I can remember being poached like this," he said. "There's certainly not enough grizzly bears in this area to be hunting them indiscriminately. There's a big distinction between a legitimate hunter and a poacher... and whoever killed this bear is a poacher. And we do take it quite seriously."
The grizzly was found shot to death, with body parts missing, in the Pemberton Meadows area near the turnoff to the Hurley Forest Service Road Nov.17. It was known to local hunters as so few grizzlies live in the area.
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service has interviewed a suspect, but is looking for the public's assistance in finding out more information about the shooting and mutilation.
"It was not far from the road, and when our officers attended we found a large grizzly male, at least (317-kilogram), dead," said conservation officer Chris Doyle.
"It was obviously killed illegally, and we're following up on some leads right now. We're hoping that there were some other hunters, or others in the area that saw something suspicious... If they did, they should phone us and provide the information.
"And if someone was involved in the shooting of the bear, we would like them to come forward as well."
Doyle said it's not uncommon to find grizzly bears in that area when the salmon are spawning, and that the bear was not tagged or collared.
There is no hunting of grizzlies permitted in the region.
"There are some areas of the province where there are limited entries (to hunt) grizzlies, but because of the small numbers in this year it's not viable to support hunting of any kind. So a loss of an animal like this could have a significant impact on the population."
If you have any information you can contact the B.C. Conservation Officer Service at 1-877-952-7277.
The grizzly was not the only bear destroyed in the corridor recently. Last Friday, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service destroyed a black bear that had broken into three homes in the Alta Vista neighbourhood in the previous few weeks.
With the snow falling and temperatures dropping, the amount of bear activity should drop off.