Greg Hare, an anthropologist with the provincial park system in the Canadian Yukon, has picked up more than 130 objects in the past five years.
Nine of us headed off early on Saturday morning to kayak in the Indian Arm Provincial Park, an 18 kilometre fjord just 30 minutes away from Vancouver City.
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Some forest scientists trace the current outbreak to 1994, when provincial-government foresters, fearing the ire of greens, failed to eradicate a small infestation in a provincial park by cutting and burning.
Its Mount Seymour Provincial Park - just moments from the city centre - provides more than a dozen popular hiking trails and the possibility of sighting (preferably from a good distance) a bear or cougar.
Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.
Now, the pundits at Queen's Park, the provincial legislature, are divided as to whether he will go ahead, or wait till next spring.
Ulster beat provincial rivals Munster at Thomond Park in County Limerick earlier this month to book their place at Dublin's Aviva stadium and started the game as marginal favourites.
The provincial body then referred the matter to Croke Park for clarification and after getting the information it needed, Ulster upheld Ardara's appeal and threw St Eunan's out of the competition.
And tax revenues that accrue to the park do not have to be handed up to the provincial and central authorities.
Provincial leader Ephrahim Rasool said the 68, 000 stadium would be part of an inner city park and could be the 'deposit' on a future bid for the Olympic Games to be held in Cape Town.
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