Some wildlife activists and Banff business owners are voicing disappointment over recently released results of a $1-million, five-year study into bear deaths on train tracks in mountain national parks. Jim Pissot of WildCanada Conservation Alliance, says the recommendations to create alternative habitat and escape routes, manage vegetation, install early warning systems and electric mats ignore one glaring reason grizzlies are attracted to the tracks — spilled grain from rail cars. “Bizarrely, after six years of study, Parks Canada and Canadian Pacific have blamed the bears,” said Pissot. In the past 10 years, 10 grizzlies have been killed by trains in Banff and Yoho parks. “Our guests — and Canadian taxpayers — are dismayed when the elk and bears in our national parks are killed unnecessarily.

Source: National Post February 09, 2017 16:07 UTC