[Darkwolf]

Like all resource-extraction permits, there is a minimal amount of harvest required. Thier statement is that this will be done only through the absolute minimum of ungulates taken by local natives for food. These natives are not required to use a guide or have hunting licences so the matter will be a legal formality. The lease payments are not standardized and will be worked out by negotiations with the government in secret. Therefore, economic pressure is not a consideration for the group either... They call themselves Conservationists, but thier activities have always been of the presrvationist manner.

The pattern is familiar. One or two wealthy individuals bankroll a sceme and the group brings about a hunting ban. The group Bearwatch used funding from one California heiress to ban all Grizzly hunting and to buy off the then-Premier of the province. The British-based Environmental Investigative Agency did the same with the Ontario Premier, banning spring Black Bear hunts in that province, funded by one American ice cream magnate.

The end result is that, here in B.C. non-residents will be barred from the Coastline by the dictates of one rich man, with all hunters who are not members of six indian tribes to follow. On publically-owned land, without public consent.

Cheers, a national forest became someone's private nature park.

One-sixth of British Columbia for 1.3 million... not a bad land deal....