Currently viewing the tag: "vancouver island"

Genetic study shows remaining gray wolves mated with dogs to produce dangerous hybrids-

Vancouver Island now again has real wolves, but could this explain some of the “wolf” attacks on hikers in the 1980s?

B.C. cull led to hybrid ‘monster wolves,’ study shows. Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun

Continue Reading

Bear mauls fisherman on docked boat. Times Colonist. “Bystanders rush to help, swarm and kill bear; victim was cleaning fish at Port Renfrew marina.”

It’s important to note that while people tend to fear grizzlies, almost all predatory bear attacks are black bears.

This was the first such bear attack on Vancouver Island.

Continue Reading

Calendar

October 2023
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Quote

‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey