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Valhalla facing a hunt ban

22/12/2011

What's happening in the B.C. park

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The return of the Columbia sturgeon

05/12/2011

Once endangered, these fish are making a comeback

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It appears that the fine citizens of the scenic and deer-sieged East Kootenays town of Kimberley will be on the hook for $35,000 for the sake of appearances now that city council has knuckled under to anti-hunting sentiments. This after extensive discussions that would have...

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Chromer Obsessions, Part 2

30/11/2011

There’s an adaptation of an old wisdom that suggests you don’t have to be completely crazy to fish for winter steelhead, but it sure helps. Well, that’s true to a point. After all, why would any sane human being stand up to his crotch in water that’s barely a hair on the...

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Chromer Obsessions, Part 1

29/11/2011

Ominous snow clouds raked across southern British Columbia in mid-November, swirling sodden snowflakes in the profusion of lights and dumping first slush, then a blanket of white across a region ill equipped and barely adept to deal with the trappings of real winter. The last of...

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Stave River Chum Outing

10/11/2011

Normally it goes against my grain to take glee in the misfortune of others. But when that misfortune in the shape of a pair of fisheries officers befalls on some thug blatantly snagging chum salmon, I can’t help but grin ear to ear. Located as it is within easy striking...

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Mule Deer & Whitetail Combo

01/11/2011

Between the rugged Okanagan Highlands on the west and the snow-capped Monashees to the east, the Boundary Forest District is a patchwork of forests and clearcuts. It is rumpled like an unmade bed and stitched with roads that cut one into the other, headers joining headers and...

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The Range House Blues

21/10/2011

So I admit I was discouraged. Between the crews tearing up the boulevard, the crews repaving the boulevard, the cement trucks pouring foundations and the flatbeds delivering building materials, I was already running half an hour late getting to the rifle range for one last...

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Unrest In The Peace

21/10/2011

From Prince George, Highway 97 winds relentlessly north through muskeg and black spruce, past golden grain fields and sleek herds of white-faced cattle to merge with the Alaska Highway at Dawson Creek and on into the heartland of northeastern BC. Pink Mountain lies along the...

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Chum Attack!

17/10/2011

It’s been a few weeks now since the first dime-bright chum salmon nosed their way into the rivers of British Columbia’s south coast, but the bulk of the run—numbering in millions of fish expected between now and the end of the month—will kick up the action to red hot. Not...

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