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There is lots of animals in the high country at island lake , but have you ever saw elk down low in the last 5 years. Or a Grizzly. Some animals don’t mind people, like I said. Black Bears, Mule Deer, White Tail Deer. But cougers, Grizzly, Elk readily avoid people. And they will adjust they routine to avoid people. They will choose different feeding and bedding grounds. And there is no food where the old growth forest is at Island lake lodge. Thats why the Elk use the Avalanche Chutes. And the Grizzly depend on the clearings also. If you hike up into the Avalanche above Island Lake…thats where all the animals are… The Black Bears are down bellow eating the garbage for the lodge and Fernie Mt. Park. And Moose in indian means “twig eater”. They can stay down bellow and surrvive. Eating mostly woody foods. All the good Moose are up high though.. Griz-Boy…tell me….do you eat meat….?? Do you enjoy letting other people kill the animals you eat.??.

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Clear cuts actually help the animals. They create tons of new grasses and other fresh greens. In an old growth forest, the large trees block out the needed light killing any new green growth on the ground. Deer, bears, elk, etc. etc. need this new growth to survive. In the high country these animals depend on avalanches to clear large areas of land for new green growth, but. . . any clearing such as a clear cut. . with do.. Forest Fires also do the same sort of thing.. Now sure the bike trails seem to do less damage, but it is the large amount of people that use them that keep the animals away. Basically displacing the animals. The only reason we even have White Tail Deer in this part of B.C. is due to the heavy logging. The reason we even have these animals around is because willing to destroy other people countries to save our own. Example…….. you can’t grow wool without killing all the preditors around… We’re not willing to kill all our preditors around so we buy wool from other places willing to kill all their preditors…
And what are you doing to protect the animals of B.C.?
I belong to the Rockie Mountain Elk Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, buy a hunting licence every year, buy hunting tags every year. Which all helps to access and protect the animals of B.C. Only 12% of people who bought a elk tag last season, got an elk.

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That is suck a good point… I know of at least 3 bike trails that have destroyed good elk habitat. Which in return, hurts the coyotes, wolves, cougers…. etc. etc. In some cases it is not the trail specifically that hurts the elk…it’s the fact that elk avoid people. When a zillion people are riding the trails.. the elk stay away.

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1. They are not trying to stop the pine beetle. They are thinning trees.
2.Thats Tembec’s land. They will do what is needed to help grow their cut block to the fullest potential. Even if it means cutting through some bike trail. You are on there land…To me it is pretty ovious that in 10 years or so, they are gonna clear cut that block again anyways.

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Let me guess……You’re from Calgary??

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I’d rather go see Cher ! !

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The forests up ridgemont would normally be comprised of more tree variety and a more varied composition of tree ages. However, due to the Fernie Fire 100 years ago , the stands are very uniform in age and species resulting in an expansive landscape of prime beetle habitat.
Also, epidemics do not “destroy” the forests. True, large amounts of trees die as a result of beetles, but new growth rapidly appears below the dead stands. This is nature’s way of breaking up uniform stands into ones that are more varied in composition, structure and age – a more natural forest condition.

The way to fight pine beetle is as follows ;
-Allowing natural processes to prevail (i.e. do nothing);
-Pheromone baits and traps;
-Individual tree fall and burn on-site;
-Large-scale prescribed burn; and
-Skid pile and burn on-site with low impact machinery.

I don’t think they are fighting pine beetle up ridgemont. I think they are thinning out the “pecker poles” so the finer species can thrive. In another 7 years they will thin it again, and then in ten or so years it will be clear cut again.

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I’ll let them know that you are coming……

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good Point……..

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"Griz-Boy":2byllpey wrote:

Nothing straight about that. [/quote:2byllpey]

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Straight Up

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"Griz-Boy":18gegh8e wrote:

You wouldn’t expect that behavior from a Cher fan. [/quote:18gegh8e]

No….I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me..

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