Up until recently,
Clayton Stoner
‘s worst offence to British Columbians was taking part in for the
. He’s a local of Port McNeill; and what proud B.C. citizen is going to find fault with a hockey-enjoying Stoner?
But that was earlier than he killed Cheeky.
The Minnesota Wild defenceman has change into embroiled in controversy after a trophy profitable hunting expedition wherein he killed an adult male grizzly in B.C.’s Kwatna River estuary between Bella Coola and Bella Bella.
The locals were horrified on two counts. For one thing, again in September of 2012, they declared a “ban on the trophy bear hunt” declaring that they’d “protect bears from merciless and unsustainable trophy hunts by any and all means.” Unfortunately, the B.C. government did not recognize their ban, and continued to grant licenses in opposition to it.
Stoner defended his right to hunt the grizzly, having been granted one such license via a limited-entry lottery system.
From the Vancouver Sun:
“I grew up hunting and fishing in British Columbia and continue to enjoy spending time with my household outdoor,” said Stoner, 28. “I utilized for and obtained a grizzly bear looking licence via a British Columbia restricted-entry lottery last winter and shot a grizzly bear with my licence while looking with my father, uncle and a good friend in Could.
“I like to hunt and fish and can continue to do so with my family and associates in British Columbia.”
According to Robert Johnson, who works with a first nations coastal guardian watchmen program, he actually spoke to Stoner and his group and defined the unofficial ban, but “Stoner respectfully mentioned he still had the legal proper to hunt there” Johnson instructed the paper.
To add insult to damage, the bear they shot was one of many native favourites, a five-yr-outdated grizzly that had come to be known as Cheeky due to his tendency to pop his head up within the local camps and stick out his tongue. That’s all well and good when all people’s friendly to you, after all, however in a hostile atmosphere, popping your head up and protruding your tongue is a bad solution to go.
And so Cheeky’s head now belongs to Stoner. As for the remainder of Cheeky’s body, Coastal First Nations mentioned in a launch that it was “skinned and left to rot in a discipline.”
Wild’s Clayton Stoner offends B.C. group for hunting, beheading beloved grizzly
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