1998-05-25
The Daily Courier, Kelowna, BC        

by Chuck Poulsen

 

Environmentalist Anthony Marr� was in the Okanagan recently as part of a six-week campaign that will take him throughout BC handing out cards that he hopes hunting foes will mail to Premier Glen Clark�

 

 ��Estimates of the number of Grizzlies in BC vary. Marr says independent biologists put the figure at 4,000-7,000, which on the high side was the government�s estimate in 1979.

 

�In 1980, the government was charged with over-hunting, (but instead of lowering the limit, the government) raised the population estimate to 10,000-13,000,� he said. �The government and the hunters have been playing up the population and playing down the amount of poaching (to justify continued over-hunting)���

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