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Bears being driven out

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Editor:

Re: “Bears awake; COS urges year-round attractant management,” Jan. 17.

I am really glad that the Conservation Officer Service is urging everyone to still be vigilant about bear attractants, but I’m not sure if I can agree that attractants are the reason bears are awake and around despite the cold and snow.

Right now they are building roads and logging the hell out of both sides of Elphinstone and all the bears that den back there are being driven out. Last count I heard was 21 dens.

I hike back there on a regular basis and I am sickened by the amount of clear-cutting that is and will be going on. Are they going to leave anything for animals or us people who love it here, or for tourism? Why does the minister not respond to the people who live here?

COS, please don’t blame it on the bears, because that is not the whole story.

Laurel Lefay, Gibsons