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COs investigating dumped bear carcass Carcass likely left by hunters, COs say TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Local conservation officers are investigating after a bear carcass was dumped at a trailhead by the Cranbrook Community Forest earlier this week. The remains, which included the hide and ribcage, were left in plain sight at a parking lot just off Baker Mountain Road sometime during the night of June 1 or early the following morning. Jeffrey Scott, a conservation officer based in Cranbrook, said the office had received a few calls about the remains. He added the bear appeared to have been harvested legally—there was no meat that the suspects had left—but noted that disposing the carcass in such a public setting was
incredibly disrespectful. “What is the despicable and disrespectful thing is that it was deposited right at the trail head; people who wanted to use the trail would have to step over this carcass,” Scott said. “So sadly, some disrespectful hunter decided to deposit their waste material from a hunt in a completely inappropriate location for all the public to see, which is pretty sad.” The bear was not killed at the site, just the remains dumped, Scott clarified. “Somebody would’ve backed up [in a truck] and dumped it there. There were no drag marks,” he said. It’s not the first time that a carcass has been dumped in a public location such as the Community Forest. “It creates a horrible name for the hunting community, it portrays a pretty poor image for local hunters,” he said.
Officials predict lower water levels at Koocanusa TRE VOR CR AWLEY
The water levels out at Lake Koocanusa are expected to be lower over the course of the summer, but there shouldn’t be too much of an impact for recreational users, according to officials from BC Hydro and the US Army Corps of Engineers. The conditions have been blamed on an average snowpack and precipitation that was more rain that snow. “There’s pretty good snowpack—and when I
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say pretty good—I’m talking 80-90 per cent of average in the upper part of the Kootenay Basin, but once you get down into Cranbrook and into the States, there’s virtually no snow,” said Joel Fenolio, the Upper Columbia Senior Water Manager with the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers. “….It was a wet winter, it was about 115 per cent of average as far as precipitation but it all basically ran off and into Libby.”
Prior to the rain over the last few days, Fenolio noted that the water level forecast have been dropping and that the reservoir will likely be roughly 15 to 20 feet from full in August. At full flow, the lake level is at elevation 2,459 feet. According to Fenolio, this year has been the driest year since 2009-2010, in terms of maximum elevations at the Libby Dam. See WATER, Page 4
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