1998-10-05
Monday magazine        

by Ross Crockford

 

�Saturday morning, I went down to the legislature grounds to hear a speech by Anthony Marr�

 

I asked Marr whether it wouldn�t be better to allow limited trophy hunting, as they�ve done with elephants in South Africa, and put thousands of dollars in taxes on the licenses and then plow them into regional projects� Marr replied that grizzly viewing was a better option. He knows of a lodge in Knight Inlet that takes foreign tourists to watch bears feeding on salmon, and charges them $700 a day, and employs 22 people. The only problem is that hunters gun down the bears the moment they step out of the tiny protected area around the salmon stream, and the tourists get very upset. The old economy and the new one aren�t mixing very well�

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