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THE C H I E F
BCAL promises
to crack down
NICOLE MOORE
Whistler Question Reporter
Staff of the B.C. Assets and
Land Corporation have
unveiled their plans to regu-
late the “wild west” state of
backcountry land use in the
Sea to Sky comdor,and this
time they have a means to
enforce their decisions.
Charles Littledale, the
regional manager of the
BCAL, said there are proba-
bly lo0 unlicensed businesses
operating in Whistler and out-
lying areas and only four to
six that have.. tenure, and that
“a management framework is
needed to reduce environ-
mental impact among the
users.”
He said local users, groups,
industry, and local govern-
ment have all agreed that a
land use management plan
needs to be implemented to
clearly define land steward-
ship issues in the area.
The BCAL announced a 14-
month transition plan for land
management within the
Squamish Forest District
Wednesday at a news confer-
ence in Whistler.
Under authority from the
Land Act, the BCAL will
require all commercial recre-
ation businesses operating in
the comdor to have permits or
licences to operate as of Nov.
31, 2001. The BCAL have
granted existing operations a
grace period ending Dec. 29
of this year to get their appli-
cations in and businesses that
fail to apply will be shut
down.
Existing businesses (n oper-
ation before Sept. 1) will be
allowed to operate while their
applications are being
processed, but proposed new
businesses that had not
applied before Sept. 1 will
have to wait till Nov. 1, 2001
for consideration.
The BCAL has introduced
initiatives to enforce the poli-
cy (as they had few enforce-
ment resources in the past)
which is unique in the area
and in the province.
They will be opening an
outreach office November in
the Whistler Forestry Office
in Function Junction and have
hired a compliance officer
whose job will be to enforce
their rulings .
The compliance officer will
work with ministry of forests’
staff and conservation offi-
cers.
Elisabeth Eldridge has been
hired to staff the office and
she will be working with
i ndus t ry, the Resort
Municipality of Whistler and
other government agencies to
develop a management plan.
Operators who do not comply
with the BCAL rulings will
be served a cease and desist
order initially, and if they still
do not cooperate they may
face fines, seizure of equip-
ment, and incarceration.
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Brennan Park Recreation Centre.
Residents charged with fisheries violations
BY TIM SHOULT~
AND IAN JACQUES
Chief Staff
Four Squamish residents
have been hit with a total of
$1,065 in fines after being
caught with a number of fish-
eries violations earlier this
month on the Cheakamus and
Mamquam Rivers.
Karen Anne Delaronde has
been fined $1 15 for angling
with licence contrary to the
BC Wildlife Act and $150 for
fishing with prohibited gear
(barbed hook) on the
Cheakamus contrary to the
B.C. Sport Fisheries
Regulations under the
Fisheries Act of Canada while
Jefferey David Vanderra was
fined $150 for fishing with
prohibited gear and $150 for
catch and retain salmon in
excess of daily quota to B.C.
Sport Fishing Regulations.
Both of these fines were laid
on Oct. 14.
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Department of Fisheries and
Oceans (DFO) seized gear
from the suspects and charged
them.
A total ban on fishing of
coho salmon has been in
effect for the past four years,
and DFO oficials are doing
checks of salmon caches and
looking for violators.
On Oct. 27, John Trevor
Brownfield and James Randal
MacLeod were each given a
$250 fine for fishing for
salmon during a closed period
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trary to B.C. Sport Fishing
Regulations.
DFO oficials are also look-
ing for the owners of some
poaching nets seized on the
Cheakamus last week. A DFO
dog from Victoria was
brought in to seek out the
owners by scent, but was
unsuccessful.
Dart (short for D’artagnan)
was a hit, though, in local ele-
mentary schools as DFO offi-
cials did some public rela-
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tions work with their tracking
dog last week.
Dart, currently the only
tracking dog for DFO in
Western Canada, will soon be
joined by a new recruit based
out of Williams Lake.
Dart is a fully-trained
German Shepherd police dog,
specially trained to protect
against theft of salmon,
abalone and other fish.
“He’s in great demand,” said
local Fishery Officer Murray
Gilchrist.
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