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Penny’s pampered pansies Cory Hewko, from Cory’s Designs, performs a little garden maintenance on the flower beds and baskets at the Penny Farthing pub on Oak Bay Avenue. The gardening is part of a regular weekly check on the plants. Don Denton/News staff
Deer management project pushed forward Next update expected by the end of summer Christine van Reeuwyk News staff
Speed readers installed in deer hot-spots are the latest step in the deer management plan for Oak Bay. Now council awaits a staff report, expected by fall. “That’s our next step,” said mayor Nils Jensen. “We’re expecting, by the end of the
summer, to get an update from our staff as to where we are on the deer management strategy. It’s an ongoing project and staff are carrying out the terms of reference.” Part of their work right now is awaiting an update from the province on traps available for use in the planned deer cull. “Traps have to be used if we’re going to be permitted by the province to cull their deer,” Jensen said. “We had fully expected them to provide those traps but they don’t have them.” In February, 10 clover traps were
District staff are also working with the stolen from a government compound Capital Regional District as it’s a joint in Cranbrook where they had just been urban deer management pilot transferred after use for We’re expecting, by FINE project between the CRD a cull in the District of CUSTOM JEWELLERS and B.C. The plan includes Elkford. Six were found the end of the summer, spending $12,500 to cull up nearby, most burned to get an update from to 25 deer that would be and destroyed. The theft butchered with the meat, delayed Kimberley’s our staff.” hooves and antlers offered to planned cull of up to - Nils Jensen the Songhees Nation. 30 mule deer and put a – with files from the significant dent in the traps Kimberly Daily Bulletin the province has to loan to communities cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com licensed to cull.
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