Bear Aware will be back in Prince George this summer.
Thanks to a two-year funding grant from the Ministry of Environment last year, a provincial gaming grant and a contribution by the Columbia Basin Trust, the British Columbia Conservation Foundation is able to provide public Bear Aware education programs in 24 B.C. communities this year, including Prince George, announced Frank Ritcey, Provincial Bear Aware Coordinator for the BCCF.
“Bear Aware is an educational program that teaches communities how to deal with bear attractants, and in doing so, effectively reduces the number of conflicts that arise between people and bears,’ Ritcey said in a press release. “Remember, we can all help bears this spring by doing simple things like taking down bird feeders, putting garbage out just before pick-up and generally making sure nothing is left around your home or yard that could attract a bear.”
Quinn Bender, Local Journalism Initiative
A Pacific great blue heron preys on a juvenile salmon in B.C. s Cowichan Bay. A new study out of UBC suggests the birds removed between three and six per cent of the young fish every year from the Salish Sea region.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Robert Stenseth March 15, 2021 - 8:00 PM It appears Pacific great blue herons have a much larger appetite for juvenile salmon than previously understood, potentially raising the complexity of salmon recovery strategies in B.C. A new study out of UBC shows the birds are annually removing three per cent of the young fish heading to the Salish Sea. During years of low water flows predation can shoot up to to six per cent.