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Once there was a salmon called Wanda, it grew big, swam up the Chilkat to spawn -- and that was her!

Dec 3/05 UPDATE: a great many responses have come in here (our WEB site) after I posted this item and it was picked up by many press and other WEB servers for distrilbution: This travesty has pricked a few ears and rightfully!

Now newly attached are the minutes of the meeting between UBC, its realators and the Public at a very "public restricted" meeting.

I see nothing less than saving this incredible piece of land as a Park as acceptable -- the Government ministers must stand up to the plate and be counted!

---{{{{ Seeking to have the new owners show responsibility is TOTAL NON-SENSE! A buck is a buck as we see UBC stating so clearly and unconsciencely. The ONLY solution is total preservation of this site as Parkland.}}}---

DONORS BEWARE -- UNIVERSITY SELLS OFF LAND GIFTS FOR QUICK PROFIT.

NEW PUBLIC MEETINGS CONFIRM THE 'SKULLDUGGERY' OF UBC / ALUMNI TO SALE OF THE HUGE OSYTER RIVER FARM -- undermining the community values of the property.

A November 28, 2005 meeting in Campbell River of the UBC / Realty company and the Community members accentuates the behind the scenes shannigans that UBC has been invoilved in. The minutes of the meeting presented below show:

--- That UBC largely kept the sale secretive from the community.

--- UBC did not even tell its tenants such as the hatchery and numerous community volunteer based organizations using the property of the pending sale.

--- the Campbell River Meeting was not open but RESTRICTED to only 1 member of a few community groups involved in the use of the property or working within the community as a whole.

My conclusion, and I don't have to live in the community and have to face Realators unhappy at the prospects of loosing a jewel to sell or pay dues to UBC greedy policies, is that I want people who might be contemplating donations to the University -- and this might well apply to any University or Alumni -- to give second thoughts to this. Are your donations going to be a continuing asset to the community as you hope or be sold off as some greedy financial manager sees fit? In this case the Oyster River Farm has been a contributor and receipient of hundereds of thousands of hours of donated time and dollars to develop the projects on its grounds. It has been a community asset and should remain one.

Perhaps the government should simple step in and pay the University a reasonable price for the property and turn in officially into a park -- it largely is and has been one for the community for years and should remain that.

The details of the limited access meeting are attached immediate below:

RARE EAGLES PLOTTING A RENDEZOUS

Chilkat -- and -- Harrison --- A great couple eh!

January 26 -- 2006 UPDATE:

Its murmored that "Harrison" will be seaching the flocks of eagles at the Campbell River Bald Eagle Festival Sunday Jan 5 -- for Chilkat

SEE YOU AT THE FESTIVAL!!!!

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The report, from unnamed sources, is that a very large and striking female (sex is presently only determined by the size!) bald eagle that frequents the Chehalis-Harrison River systems of the Fraser River British Columia area, has a secret relationship going on with a handsome -- perhaps more aptly described as scruffy --- male (again sex only really noticable by the small bill) bald eagle of the Chilkat River system of the Haines Alaska region.

In view of the other recent sighttings and photographs of a very unusual eagle on the Chilkat (see the Story in this Forum: Unknown Eagle in Alaska ) nothing about eagles and eagle behaviour seems impossible.

If yoiu have anything to add on either this unusal relationship or progress of this "tryst" or other photos on unusal eagles please read on and forward us any stories or examples. These photos need not necessarily be of offspring from this pair -- were not yet suggesting the relationship has gone this far.

Haines--Chilkat River Bald Eagle Festival Again GREAT Success

November 2005 saw winter close in early on the norther bald eagle habitat. By the time of the Haine-Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival of November 7 - 13 happened most of the northern rivers were frozen and on that weekend before a 6 inch snowfall throughout the northern areas sealed off the salmon carcasses and drove the eagles to the Chilkat or south to warmer climes.

The results -- I counted about 2700 eagle along the few miles of the Council Grounds and perhaps another 2000 in the surrounding regions. A great biological wonder. Chilly but wonderful!

Hope to see you there next year or at one of the other great Northwest bald eagles festivals mentions in other stories here.

Attached please find a few of my photos of the Chilkat Bald Eagles

David Hancock