You can get tickets in person from Highwater Tackle or online from Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-north-shore-fish-and-game-salmon-derby-tickets-1995393028262?aff=oddtdtcreator

The North Shore Fish & Game Club is pleased to invite members and guests to an evening dedicated to one of the most important wildlife conservation issues facing British Columbia.
👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chronic-wasting-disease-what-every-bc-hunter-should-know-tickets-1994395940947?aff=oddtdtcreator

Cait Nelson, lead for the province’s CWD Program, will be presenting on:

• What Chronic Wasting Disease is and how it spreads
• The current status of CWD in British Columbia
• BC’s surveillance and management program
• How hunters contribute to disease monitoring
• Questions and discussion with wildlife professionals

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) continues to spread across North America, making surveillance, early detection, and hunter participation more important than ever. This presentation will provide an update on the current situation in British Columbia, explain how wildlife managers are responding, and discuss the important role hunters play in helping protect cervid populations.

Practical Sampling Demonstration

We’re especially pleased that wildlife biologist Kirstyn Falck will provide a live demonstration showing how to correctly collect the three tissue samples used for CWD testing:

• Retropharyngeal lymph nodes
• Tonsils
• Obex (brain stem)

Whether you’ve submitted samples before or have never done it, this practical demonstration will help you better understand the process and give you greater confidence in the field.

👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chronic-wasting-disease-what-every-bc-hunter-should-know-tickets-1994395940947?aff=oddtdtcreator

Why You Should Attend

One of the strengths of the North Shore Fish & Game Club is our commitment to conservation through education.

This presentation is an opportunity to stay informed, ask questions, and learn practical skills that help protect the wildlife resources we all value. If you hunt deer, elk, or moose—or simply care about healthy wildlife populations—you’ll leave with a better understanding of one of today’s most important conservation challenges.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, August 11

Time: 6:30

Location: Reliable Gun, Langley Store, #103 8860 201 Street Langley, BC

Cost: Free

Registration

Please register through Eventbrite so we can plan seating and refreshments.

👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chronic-wasting-disease-what-every-bc-hunter-should-know-tickets-1994395940947?aff=oddtdtcreator

Members are encouraged to invite a friend, hunting partner, or family member who may be interested in learning more about Chronic Wasting Disease.

North Shore Fish and Game is running two contests to raise money to run the club! Click the link to buy tickets!

Win a Tikka T3X Lite Roughtech Bolt Action, composite stock, stainless barrel in 6.5 Creedmoor with a Vortex Diamondback 3.5 – 10 x 50mm Scope.

*and* 

Win the 50/50 cash draw!

Important dates

Deadline: Monday, August 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.
Draw date: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.

Ticket packs

Prize Raffle tickets are:
Single Ticket for $10, 
3-Ticket Pack for $20, 
10-Ticket Pack for $50 SOLD OUT,
30-Ticket Pack for $100 SOLD OUT.

50/50 tickets are:
Single Ticket for $10, 
3-Ticket Pack for $20, 
10-Ticket Pack for $50, 
30-Ticket Pack for $100 SOLD OUT.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How many tickets are available for sale?
   Prize Raffle: There are 850 tickets available for sale.
   50/50: There are 850 tickets available for sale.
2. How much do tickets cost?
   Prize Raffle:
   Single Ticket for $10
   3-Ticket Pack for $20
   10-Ticket Pack for $50
   30-Ticket Pack for $10050/50: Single Ticket for $10
   3-Ticket Pack for $20
   10-Ticket Pack for $50
   30-Ticket Pack for $100
3. Can I request a specific ticket number?
   No. Ticket numbers are computer-generated in ascending order starting at a pre-determined number.
4. When are the deadlines for ticket sales?
   Final Sales Deadline: Monday, August 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.
5. What are the odds of winning?
   Prize Raffle: Chances are 1 in 850 (total tickets for sale) to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold.
   50/50: Chances are 1 in 850 (total tickets for sale) to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold.

Contact us

   conservationrob@gmail.com

   (604) 230-4225

The 2026 Edition of the Haller Grinder Ride is Just Under 3 Weeks Away!

This Years Date is May 30th and 31st

People will start arriving Thursday or Friday at Haller Rec Site.  The weather looks like it will be good, but don’t forget rain gear. 

We will camp at Haller Rec sites  and do daily rides into the Edge Hills or across the road into the Marbles.

This site accommodates tent camping, campers or trailers.  There are pit toilets and lots of room at each one.  

Rental horses and guides come from Charlie and Jenn at the Coldwell Ranch.  Rental costs are $200/day. Give me a call at 604-230-4225 or an email to conservationrob@gmail.com if you need some help.

If you have your own horses and are able to get them there and care for them, you are encouraged to do so. 

There will be a potluck at my camp Saturday night, so keep that in mind. It’s fun time to sit around, eat and tell some good lies!


I look forward to seeing a bunch of you there!

Where Is The Ride Happening?
 For anyone who doesn’t already know where we go, here are the details:

The closest town to where we ride is Clinton, BC, just north of Cache Creek and south of 100 Mile House.  The area  we ride is to the west of that, close to the Fraser.  You can find both of our potential camp sites off the Jesmond Road, which you access via the Kelly Lake Road or the Big Bar Road.   The red circle is the area where we do our rides. 

We are camping at Haller this year.  The Kelly Lake/Jesmond Road route is shorter, and the first 17 kms or so are paved.  Turn left as soon as you come to the village of Clinton, as indicated on the map, and look for the turn off to the camp on your left just a couple minutes after you pass through the Circle H Mountain Ranch.

The Big Bar Road route is longer, but it was just graded on Tuesday, so it might be a preferable route for some people.  

Potluck
 

One of our favourite gatherings (social distanced of course) is the ever so wonderful potluck.  Our potlucks are fun casual affairs and as anyone who’s attended them knows, we don’t overthink them. 

As always, an open invitation to cowboy poets and music!l

Questions?
 

If anything is unclear or you have any questions you can contact Rob directly at 604-230-4225 or by email at rob@robchipman.net 

I was recently chatting with a buddy of mine and we discussed a presentation made by NSF&G club member Dr. Ken Ashley at the 2024 BCWF AGM where he talked about the effect of climate change on small lakes and what that means to anglers. My pal mentioned that he was seeing a lot of green matter in lakes that he fished and I suggested that it might be a result not only of climate change, but also logging contributing to higher water temperatures that throw lakes out of balance and make it much tougher on fish.

Now, full disclosure: neither my buddy nor I are smart, well informed people, but my friend didn’t think there was much logging in the Chilcotin, and that if there was a lot of it was probably salvage logging.

As we all know, salvage logging is something we have to do, right? I mean, we can’t just leave those beetle or fire killed trees standing and going to waste, can we?

Eddie Petryshen has a different opinion. I know Eddie from X, but in the real world Eddie is a conservation specialist who works with Wildsight in the Kootenays. You can find him on Wildsight’s webpage here and on X here.

Eddie works to improve logging practices on the ground and at a provincial level as well as on old growth protection, caribou recovery, recreation and land-use planning. He’s an East Kootenay local yokel, a conservationist and a human and coffee powered adventurer fighting for the land, water, and critters.

What follows is one of his recent X threads, reprinted with his kind permission:

SALVAGE LOGGING IN BC

The climate is changing rapidly here in BC. As climate chaos continues to become more extreme we will see more fires and more forest disturbance from insects like bark beetles. But let’s talk about what happens after fire or beetles. Let’s talk about salvage logging.

The

@bcndp recently further incentivized and prioritized industrial salvage logging. So what’s the problem and issue?

Salvage logging is logging that takes place after a natural disturbance.

This logging is heavily subsidised as logging companies will pay low stumpage rates for the trees logged. The province incentives logging as companies are on the hook for reforestation and the province wants to maximise getting burnt timber to mills + pellet + pulp operations.

BC’s ecosystems evolved with disturbance. Our remaining primary forests are a result of the complex natural + diverse disturbance regimes. From wet ancient stands that evaded fire or large disturbance for 1000s of years to open forests and grasslands that burned every 3-5 years.

It’s important to acknowledge natural disturbance is about survivors, it’s about a legacy of living organisms and dead materials. It’s about variability even in severe burns. I think the concept of complex early seral forests is an important piece of the puzzle.

Naturally disturbed forests provide complex early seral environments with more species, complexity, snags, greater biological legacies and unique understory vegetation. Salvaging removes that habitat complexity, which is not recovered with replanting.

There is a growing body of evidence that salvage logging interferes with natural ecological recovery (see the linked paper here).

The authors of that report ^ describe salvage logging as a tax on natural ecological recovery.

Salvage logging can degrade the soil’s ability to retain moisture and regulate temperature, which limits regrowth and encourages erosion, sedimentation and even landslides. The impact on fish-bearing streams can be catastrophic.

It’s a question about how we want to treat water. This study quantifies just how much we impact water quality by salvage logging. “For all parameters evaluated, salvage-logged catchments were more heavily impacted than either burnt or unburnt catchments” (paper here)

Finally, is salvage logging an effective strategy to mitigate endemic bark beetles outbreaks?

Increasingly we’re realising that burnt forests and the ecosystems they produce while they recover are incredibly important. If ecosystem resilience is the priority we should let these forests recover on their own for the most part.

Thanks for letting us share this, Eddie.

If anyone wants to see the original X thread with comments you can find it here.

We will be screening “Soul of the Fraser”, the companion documentary to “Heart of the Fraser”, June 7 at the Royal Canadian Legion in North Vancouver (123 West 15th, just west of 15th and Lonsdale).

Admission is free. Executive producer and club member Ken Ashely will conduct a Q&A.

Spread the word!

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