Residents in urban areas are encouraged to give deer plenty of space to reduce human-deer conflicts during deer fawning season. Fawning season occurs from mid-May…
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Provincial contacts list for urban deer complaints
Each year during fawning season, reports of protective and aggressive deer increase. City of Kimberley council is disappointed by the lack of provincial support to…
Bighorn sheep don’t do social distancing
By Ian Adams Op-Ed Commentary This summer, a severe respiratory disease has shown up in British Columbia. Highly contagious, it moves quickly through a population…
City completes 50 deer cull
In an effort to reduce incidents of deer aggression across the community, the City of Cranbrook has removed 50 deer from the urban herd over…
Notes from City Hall
Aggressive deer in the community In the late fall, male whitetail and mule deer enter into the breeding (or rutting) season. This causes them to…
15 deer removed from city
Fifteen deer were removed from the City of Cranbrook this winter, following the municipality’s fifth deer population management program (cull). Operations began Tuesday January 3,…
Notes from City Hall
New Animal Control Bylaw Council recently adopted the “City of Kimberley Animal Control Bylaw No. 2544, 2016.” There are several new changes in the bylaw,…
Wildlife and firearms seized
BC Conservation Officers (COs) have seized wildlife and firearms from three people. COs reported via Facebook Nov. 4 that after acting on a tip from…
City fielding many aggressive deer complaints
The City of Kimberley has been fielding a large number of complaints about aggressive deer in the community. As a result the city is reaching…
Vandalism ends deer cull in Cranbrook
City will apply for additional Wildlife Permit for the fall Vandalism of four provincially owned clover traps overnight Thursday has resulted in the City of…