A man who was fined and given hunting bans in a joint B.C.-Alberta investigation says he knows he91裸聊视频檚 not without fault.
In a 15-minute video posted to Facebook on Friday (Feb. 9), host of the Alpine Carnivore TV show Michel Beaulieu said he wanted to set the record straight on his recent fines and hunting bans from a joint B.C.-Alberta investigation.
Beaulieu, according to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, pleaded guilty to allowing his licence to be used by another person. He also received a $4,500 penalty.
His wife, Lynn, pleaded guilty to hunting without a licence and received a $2,000 penalty. Both are banned from hunting in B.C. for one year.
In Alberta, the province91裸聊视频檚 Fish and Wildlife Enforcement said Beaulieu was convicted of hunting without a licence, hunting in a closed season, unlawful possession of wildlife, unlawful export of wildlife, providing false information, as well as abusing licence requirements in relation to the killing of bighorn sheep, antlered moose and antlered elk within a protected wilderness area.
Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement says it was determined the offences in each province happened between August 2020 and September 2021.
The joint investigation took two years until the spring of 2022, with six locations being investigation throughout B.C., the conservation officer service noted.
There were three search warrants and officers seixed numerous unlawfully killed wildlife from both provinces, as well as a rifle. Multiple pieces of evidence were seized in the B.C. searches, including sheep and moose parts that were later matched by DNA analysis to kill sites in Alberta and shell casings from the sheep kill in Alberta also matched the firearm officers seized in B.C.
91裸聊视频淭hese actions showed a blatant disregard for fish and wildlife laws in BC and beyond. Unfortunately, cross-border poaching is not an unusual occurrence,91裸聊视频� said COS Insp. Kyle Ackles, who oversees the the B.C. Conservation Officer Service91裸聊视频檚 general investigations section.
However in the Facebook post from Beaulieu, he said the social media post by Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement makes it sound like there91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渄ozens of hunts all over multiple provinces where we91裸聊视频檝e committed offences.91裸聊视频� He said the convictions were related to three hunts: a bear hunt in B.C. and sheep and moose hunts in Alberta, adding the antlered elk charge is 91裸聊视频渋ncorrect.91裸聊视频�
The sheep hunt, he said, was the 91裸聊视频渨orst one.91裸聊视频� In the video, he details the days leading up to when he killed the sheep, adding that it was the first big-horn sheep he ever killed.
When trying to leave the area, he said a man who claimed he was a conservation officer told Beaulieu that he improperly tagged the sheep and drove into an area that91裸聊视频檚 closed to motorized vehicles. Beaulieu said he didn91裸聊视频檛 know if the man was, in fact, a conservation officer so he drove home and called Alberta Fish and Wildlife to report himself.
Officers came to his home and charged him.
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It was a year later, he said, that he received notice from Alberta Fish and Wildlife that they were 91裸聊视频渞aiding91裸聊视频� his home and that the kill was illegal.
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In the moose hunt, he said being from Ontario originally he was unaware of Alberta laws of who could shoot the animal based on whose name the tage was in.
91裸聊视频淲as I right? No. should I have known better? Yes, but I didn91裸聊视频檛.91裸聊视频�
It was a similar situation in B.C. with the bear shot.
91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 truly terrible that all of this has happened and I should know better.91裸聊视频�
Hr said all of the incidents happened in his first year of filming Alpine Carnivore, 91裸聊视频渨here I [didn91裸聊视频檛] have the knowledge I have today.91裸聊视频�
Alpine Carnivore, according to its YouTube channel, is a hunting and outdoors adventure series.
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