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BCTV News Hour Access - Spatsizi Wilderness Park: Preserve for Hunters 1976
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Description - An investigative news piece segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, broadcast during the weekend news hour show in November 1976. The piece explores the politics over ostensibly-necessary “harvesting” of wild animals as resource in Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Preserve (today Provincial Park, founded Dec. 3, 1975) in northern British Columbia. Explores “the after the fact-management program that endangers wild animal populations, [and] disputes between biologists and environmental advocates versus hunters represented by Victoria.” Speakers discuss potential conflicts of interest on the part of the provincial council members of the Fish and Wildlife Branch, which governs the park, described in the piece by Jim Wright as “a giant rod and gun club.” Interviewed in the piece: Jim Wright of Telkwa-based Spatsizi Guardians, which later worked later with Greenpeace to ban trophy hunting by (mostly) European visitors in the preserve and, in 1979, held demonstrations to temporarily halt all hunting and bring attention to mismanagement of the park by the Fish and Wildlife Branch; Dave Spalding, director of Smithers branch of provincial Fish…
Directors & creators
Margit Nance for BCTV
Subjects
Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park; British Columbia; hunting; fishing; wildlife management; cariboo; Margit Nance
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