They posted this on Facebook today:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...79802275611835
Don't know if it works without facebook so here's the text:
Two men have pleaded guilty to offences involving the poaching of a grizzly bear in May 2016. Biologists at fRI Research notified fish and wildlife officers that a GPS tracking collar on the grizzly bear had stopped reporting.
An investigation determined that it had been shot by Ronald Raymond Motkoski on his property near Edson. A resident of his property alerted him to the presence of the grizzly bear on the morning of May 25. Motkoski then took his rifle and ATV and drove down his driveway where he saw the bear walking towards buildings on his property. Motkoski shot the bear and disposed of the collar, and John Peter Grant skinned it and tacked the hide to a wood board so that it could be preserved. The bear was three or four years old and weighed approximately 200 pounds.
On September 12, 2017, Edson Provincial Court assessed Motkoski a penalty of fines totalling $12,702.76. On February 7, 2017, Edson Provincial Court assessed Grant a penalty of fines totalling $6,000. Both individuals were suspended from hunting for five years. The fines include restitution to fRI Research for the cost of the collar as well as funding for Alberta’s BearSmart program.
On recommendation from the Endangered Species Conservation Committee, grizzly bears were listed as Threatened in Alberta in 2010.