Cover Photo credit: Mark Schneider Salt Spring Island is the most densely populated island in the Capital Regional District. The Salt Spring Island Conservancy was formed to protect, restore, enhance and maintain wildlife habitats and ecosystems on their seven nature reserves. Seven hundred acres of conservancy land represent 1% of Salt …
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The exchanges between council and staff during the Monday Jan 25th, Oak Bay council meeting surrounding what to do with the deer in the municipality were divided, communicated confusion at end goals, and disinterest with wading into another un-researched project to kill more deer residents. Prior to conversation on the …
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Excerpts from The Columbia Valley Pioneer: Recently, Invermere local Devin Kazakoff travelled to Montana to find his own solution to what he sees as the valley’s deer culling travesty. In 2014, Mr. Kazakoff was arrested in Kimberly after he damaged two clover traps during a cull. On April 1st, he …
Read More »Oak Bay has officially announced that 11 deer, 7 bucks and 4 does, have been killed by clover trap and bolt gun in Oak Bay’s long gestating deer cull. Mayor Nils Jensen has reported that the killing is now finished and that in the eyes of Oak Bay council the …
Read More »There is no doubt that Oak Bay’s plan to kill 25 deer in a “pilot project” that could very well set the stage for how the further killing of deer will be handled across the Capital Regional District has been controversial, dividing communities both in and out of Oak Bay. …
Read More »It’s 11pm and after a long night at work, my night is only beginning. With the Oak Bay deer cull purportedly in full swing, the traps are in and the contractors ready to kill, the nights are too quiet to get any sleep. There are rumblings of all the details, …
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