By Rick Guenther, © 2001, All Rights Reserved  Somewhere on the plains of the Peace Region many eons ago, a ten-meter long bipedal dinosaur bends down to grasp some succulent willow leaves and shoots with its broad mouth. With a quick jerk of its head it breaks the foliage away and begins to munch nervously, its… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 March 11, 1999, By Daily News Staff B.C. Environment Minister Cathy McGregor is expected today to unveil the Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) for Dawson Creek at the George Dawson Inn. Submitted plan calls for creation of 153,000 hectares of new park land. A Ministry of Environment press release stated that… Read More

Recent Items, 1999 March 12, 1999, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Untouched by the hands of government since being submitted to Victoria some six months ago, a Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) for the Dawson Creek region was unveiled by Environment Minister Cathy McGregor on Thursday. In a speech delivered at the George Dawson… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 March 12, 1999, by Daily News Staff The Dawson Creek LRMP plan area has been divided into 12 resource management zones (RMZ). Each RMZ contains specific resource values and management objectives which set out the types of activities and level of intensity permitted in individual zones. In general, there are five types… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 April 9, 1999 By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff When is wildlife not longer wildlife? It’s a question that Burnem Grant has been thinking long and hard about. Grant is the wildlife policy representative for the Peace River Forage Association (PFRA). And he’s become all too familiar with wild game, particularly elk,… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 May 19, 1999, By Cees Mond, Daily News Staff A green lifestyle will land a Dawson Creek resident a 1999 Minister’s Environmental award in early June, the Daily News has learned. While the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks would neither confirm nor deny the award because of a self-imposed ban until June… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 June 10, 1999, By Kelly Henschel, Daily News Staff From nearly 4,000 feet in the air, the Kiskatinaw River looks like a watery snake, slithering in and out of densely forested areas and at times almost doubling back to meet itself. While it’s a breathtaking sight, the water still appears to be a… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 June 22, 1999, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Years of dedication and hard work were acknowledged on Saturday evening when Leonard and Molly Donaldson were presented with the L.B. Thomson Conservation Award by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA). Living on a 1,200 acre farm about 15 miles north of Dawson Creek,… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 July 15, 1999 [Several examples of ichthyosaur fossils have been found in the Peace region. This article gives some technical information about these aquatic giants] While dinosaurs ruled the land, the ichthyosaurs shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. “Ichthyosaur”… Read More

Recent Items – 1999 Sept. 2, 1999, By Jim Sinclair, for the Peace River Block News Good news for the ducks — the North American Waterfowl Management Plan is coming to the B.C. Peace. The area was originally excluded from the NAWMP, explains Prince George’s Murray Clark, the northern B.C. representative for Ducks Unlimited, an organization working… Read More