The Northern Rockies municipality is lobbying the provincial transportation ministry to install a cattle guard at the Fort Nelson River Bridge on Highway 77, about 70 kilometres northwest of the community.
“This just encourages them to come down more and more often," he said, "and just like bears getting habituated to garbage you don’t want that, you don’t want them to know that this is a good place for them to be." “You don’t want that. It can be bad for the domestic herd, it can be absolutely devastating for the wild herd as well. You need to keep these two herds apart just for their own sake,” Foster said.
“Now, we can’t stop them from swimming the river but I’m hoping that maybe this cattle guard will dissuade them enough that they won’t come into town, they’ll think it’s just too difficult for them," he said.