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Kimberley recognized at UBCM Community Excellence Award in Leadership and Innovation C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Kimberley received a prestigious award at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention in Vancouver this week. Mayor Don McCormick accepted the Community Excellence Award for Leadership and Innovation on behalf of the City of Kimberley at the UBCM Awards Breakfast. Kimberley is being recognized for the development of the SunMine. “The community overwhelmingly endorsed the Sun Mine in a 2011 referendum to spend $2 million on its development. Scott Sommerville and his staff tightly managed this project with very little contingency, including the fussy grid con-
nectivity pieces at the end,” McCormick said. “This is truly a community success story, and I was honored to accept this on your behalf.” The Community Excellence Awards program is an opportunity to showcase municipalities and regional districts who “lead the pack”, take risks to innovate, establish new partnerships, question established ways of doing business and pioneer new customer service practices. Kimberley also received recognition at the AKBLG luncheon (Kootenay/Boundary Local Governments) for the use of wood products in community projects. “The log bridges so artfully constructed by PHOTO SUBMITTED Tyee Log Homes continMinister Fassbender, Minister of Community, Sport, Cultural Development, presented the Community Leadership & Innovation ue to impress,” McCoraward to Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick. With them is UBCM First VP Al Richmond. mick said.
Predators must be managed along with prey, Bennett says C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
In response to the new billboard against the wolf cull, which went up this week on the TransCanada Highway near Golden, (Daily Bulletin, September 24, 2015), Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett says the provincial government manages all wildlife species and a full understanding of those management practices is necessary.
“You can’t effectively manage wildlife populations by managing prey species, and not predator species,” Bennett said. “We have been managing prey species like deer, elk and moose for over 100 years in North America. But when one predator species is allowed to expand without controls, the balance that wildlife management strives for is destroyed.” “Wolves are social animals.
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More than just numbers,” said Sadie Parr, executive director of Wolf Awareness. “Sustainable numbers do not necessarily mean that a wolf population is thriving nor functioning naturally. “Wolf social systems are extremely important. Their social bonds and kin-based families define what it means to be a wolf.” Parr argues that since recording began for the province of BC in
1976, there are a record high number of wolves being killed through hunting and trapping. Bennett disputes that. “Wolves are a special case because unlike cougars and bears, conventional hunting is not an effective control lever for the species,” Bennett said. “Controlling wolf populations requires use of unique management tools and to the person who thinks we can still
let nature “run its course”, the use of these special tools seems bizarre and cruel. We are 100 years past letting wildlife populations sort out their own balance. “Like I said at the beginning, you cannot manage prey species without managing predator species. Allowing wolf populations to expand to the point where they are destroying the balance between predator and prey is irresponsible.”