Signs of spring

Forget about the daffodils, the budding magnolias and the birds. I saw my first real sign of spring on BC’s Lower Mainland today — a big black Conservation Officer Service pickup truck headed through North Vancouver with one of those blue cylindrical live bear traps in tow. Guess the bruins are out of hibernation and straight into people’s garbage. Right on sched. Between the people who take absolutely no responsibility for the way they store their garbage and the self acclaimed nature lovers who leave out tidbits for the poor hungry bears, COs throughout the region and in fact the province, have their hands full every spring catching and transplanting problem bears. There wouldn’t be a problem if there was no food for the bears to find. And if we stopped encroaching on their habitat.