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Cattle carcasses successfully removed from Okanagan Lake near Vernon
The salvage operation to pull dead cattle carcasses from Okanagan Lake near Vernon is now…
Retrieving dead cattle from Okanagan Lake ‘extremely dangerous’: diver
A Penticton-based professional diver says retrieving the dead cattle that drowned in Okanagan Lake over…
Cattle seized from B.C. property living ‘among the worst conditions’ ever seen by SPCA investigator
More than 200 cows were seized from a Vancouver Island property after the B.C. SPCA…
Cows roam through Kelowna golf course
It’s the last day of the season for the Mission Creek Golf Club and this…
Ranchers answer the call to move herd of cattle in path of Lytton Creek wildfire
Over a hundred cows are being herded off their rangeland early this year due to…
Cattle helping fight B.C. Interior wildfires could soon be going high tech
Cattle are being tested to see if they can mitigate wildfire risks by grazing near…
B.C. to use grazing cattle as preventative measure against wildfires
KAMLOOPS – B.C. Cattlemen's Association and the B.C. government are joining forces for a new endeavuor…
Cows with apparent bullet wounds found dead in Kelowna
KELOWNA – RCMP say a pair of cows were shot to death near Postill Lake…
Interior cattlemen hope their voices will be heard by new RCMP livestock officer
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – A position that's been vacant within the B.C. RCMP for two years is…
Hunting season prime time for cattle poaching in Thompson-Okanagan
KAMLOOPS – There have been two reported incidents of cattle poaching in Kamloops over the…
$25,000 reward for information on Kamloops cattle poacher
WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES KAMLOOPS – A Westsyde ranch is offering a $25,000 reward…
B.C.’s forestry watchdog to audit five range tenures in Kamloops
THOMPSON – B.C.'s independent watchdog for sound forest and range practices will be auditing five…
Okanagan ranch offers $10,000 reward after finding poached cows
**CONTENT ADVISORY: GRAPHIC IMAGES** VERNON – A $10,000 reward is on the table for information…
Cattle poaching problem continues in the North Okanagan
VERNON - Another cow was found killed and left to rot over the weekend. It was found Saturday, Oct. 10, on the Aberdeen Forest Service Road in Lavington. The cow appeared to have been shot, but no meat was taken. It’s the fourth cow to be found dead on range land leased by the Coldstream...
Ranch offers reward for information about cow poaching in the North Okanagan
VERNON - Poachers are shooting cattle in the North Okanagan and either taking the meat, or leaving the animals for dead. Pete Wise, a wildlife control specialist in Vernon, says at least three cows have been shot since September on range land leased by the Coldstream Ranch. “Somebody is intentionally targeting them,” Wise says. In...
Grassland-eating grasshoppers causing grief for Interior cattle ranchers
KAMLOOPS - A district board member hopes to speak with the provincial Minister of Agriculture about "a great number of complaints" about the growing grasshopper population eating away the grasslands near Kamloops and causing concerns for ranchers. Ken Gillis, the director for the Grasslands area of the Thompson Nicola Regional District, says he plans to...
You’re not the only one not feeling frisky in this heat
HEAT KILLING CATTLE (SEX) DRIVE THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Beef is meeting supply needs so far this year, but it hasn’t been easy for ranchers as they deal with drought and extreme conditions that leave cattle not wanting to mate. Kevin Boon, general manager of the B.C. Cattleman’s Association, says the hardest hit areas in the province’s...
Cow found shot to death in North Okanagan leads to police investigation
VERNON - A police investigation is underway after the discovery of a cow found shot on a North Okanagan forest service road. Vernon RCMP received a report Saturday, July 11, of a cow found shot to death on King Edward Lake Road, near Coldstream, spokesperson Gord Molendyk says. The cow was part of a rancher’s...
Drone project set to take off
KAMLOOPS - A professor at Thompson Rivers University is hoping a pilot program, mostly aimed at tracking cattle, will soon take off. “This is fabulous technology,” John Church, the Cattle Research Chair at the university says. “The concept of using drone technology for precision farming… to my knowledge, there’s not a lot of people using...