New Joffre Lakes Park shuttle threatens critically endangered grizzly bear population

By Joel Barde
Shuttle bus pickup point is located along ‘particularly important’ crossing corridor

A well-known grizzly bear scientist is warning that the pickup location for BC Parks’ new Joffre Lakes Provincial Park shuttle bus could result in dire consequences for a critically endangered grizzly bear population. “Right near that parking lot [at Duffey Lake Park] are huge avalanche chutes and they were heavily used by bears in the spring,” said Michelle McLellan, a biologist who has been studying the Stein-Nahatlatch Grizzly Bear Population since 2005 as part of her doctoral studies.…

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• Whistler News

July 26, 2019

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