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Y2Y In The News
Y2Y upset over plan to log near Site C dam
Wood News - The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is calling foul on BC Hydro's plans to log the Peace River Valley above the Site C dam site, including an area that has been recommended for Provincial Park status and contains rare old growth forests.
Conference to explore new ventures in bison recovery
Crag & Canyon
- The American Bison Society will hold its biennial conference at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity from Sept. 26-29. Bison managers, producers, advocates, philanthropists, artists and First Nations leaders will discuss the progress of, and steps required for, the successful restoration of wood and plains bison.
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Science News
UNBC
- The BC Protected Areas Research Forum (BCPARF) will be December 5 - 7, 2016 in Victoria. Call for presentations, research and management snappers, posters, workshops, and special sessions and side-meetings is now open with an online submission form. Submission deadline is October 21.
Scientific American - By playing road noise where there was no road, researchers were able to gauge the effect of the noise on bird behavior without having to deal with the effect of the road itself.
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Also In The News....
Number of bears killed in Revelstoke highest in 22 years
Revelstoke Review -
On Thursday, Sept. 15, another bear was killed in the Big Eddy bringing the summer total to 19. It's the most black bears killed in the area since 1994, when 33 of them were killed, according to Bear Aware.
National Geographic -
In August 2014, workers completed the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, as the final part of the 210-foot-high (64-meter-high) Glines Canyon Dam was
dismantled on the Elwha River
in Washington State.
Legendary wildlife scientist John Craighead dead at 100
Missoulian
- Among many achievements, John and his brother, Frank, wrote much of the text for the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968), while conducting a 12-year research project on Yellowstone's grizzlies that helped save the bears from extirpation.
Traps set for unwanted grizzlies near Vancouver Island
Times Colonist - Grizzly bears have never been seen on Cormorant Island, off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, so when two showed up in the area, residents were intrigued but firm - the duo must go.
Winnipeg Free Press - The Treay 8 Justice for the Peace Caravan made a stop in Winnipeg's Meet Me at the Bell Tower gathering to talk about an issue impacting many Indigenous families.
CTV Vancouver
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A vast tract of pristine waterfront within British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest has been donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada, filling in part of a patchwork of conservation efforts in the prized wilderness.
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Organization - Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
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