This Aug. 12, 2009 photo shows a grizzly bear traveling across the Porcupine River Tundra in the Yukon Territories, Canada. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says a man has been fined $10,000 and banned from hunting for 15 years for illegally killing a grizzly near Elkford, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Rick Bowmer
This Aug. 12, 2009 photo shows a grizzly bear traveling across the Porcupine River Tundra in the Yukon Territories, Canada. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says a man has been fined $10,000 and banned from hunting for 15 years for illegally killing a grizzly near Elkford, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Rick Bowmer
RSB GM**NY**ELKFORD - The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says a man has been fined $10,000 and banned from hunting for 15 years for illegally killing a grizzly bear near Elkford, B.C.
The service says in a social media post that a decision from a provincial court judge in Fernie, B.C., this week also ordered the man's rifle be forfeited.
It says officers launched an investigation in the spring of 2020 after receiving a tip from the public about a man hunting bears using bait near the community of Elkford.
The service says the investigation took a year, but in 2021 conservation officers apprehended the man shooting a decoy black bear at the site where bait had been placed.
The investigation also found the man shot and killed a grizzly bear at the bait site and harvested parts from the animal.
The province imposed a ban on hunting grizzly bears in 2017, and the service says evidence gathered during the investigation led to a successful conviction of killing wildlife when it is not open season.
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