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Len Rich

15/04/2009

There are not many men you meet in the course of a lifetime who can truly be called gentlemen in every sense of the word. Men who respect your opinions, honour your dreams and listen carefully to your words to understand the thoughts they convey. Men who are upright in their ...

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Signs of spring

14/04/2009

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...

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Big game draws pending

14/04/2009

For many big game hunters across western Canada, taking part in the draws for limited entry licences is an annual spring rituals. For the government agencies that set and issue these permits it’s an opportunity to micro manage game populations of a specific area by providing...

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Fishing licence snafu

13/04/2009

So computers were supposed to make our lives a whole lot easier. And British Columbia’s provincial bureaucrats figured they’d do us a huge favour by offering the freshwater fishing permits online as of this year. Sounded good, but it just didn’t work out that way. By end...

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Kicking it off

13/04/2009

With the advent of a spring we thought would never come, I got news last week that the first coho has been caught in the BC Mainland’s Capilano River. Granted, the fish barely tipped the scales at a pound and a half, but it was, without question an inriver fish. Size-wise, ...

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Turkey season upon us

13/04/2009

The neighbours are nervous. For the past few days, they’ve been trying to pinpoint the source of all the turkey talk in this suburban enclave and I think they suspect it’s coming from our house. You see, turkey season is upon us in the west and I’m about 10 days away from...

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