. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 7: Telling the Wildlife Story 115. From the surrounding high ground it is easy to see why CWS Director David Munro felt that the Creston Valley in the British Columbia Interior would be ideal for a wildlife interpretation centre focused on wetland habitat (Photo credit: D. Muir). was to enlist wildlife interpretation as a strategic tool in the struggle to reduce illegal harvesting of birds and eggs from eider and seabird colonies along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Making use of CWS research facilities in former Transport Ca
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 7: Telling the Wildlife Story 115. From the surrounding high ground it is easy to see why CWS Director David Munro felt that the Creston Valley in the British Columbia Interior would be ideal for a wildlife interpretation centre focused on wetland habitat (Photo credit: D. Muir). was to enlist wildlife interpretation as a strategic tool in the struggle to reduce illegal harvesting of birds and eggs from eider and seabird colonies along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Making use of CWS research facilities in former Transport Canada buildings at lies Sainte Marie, Quebec-Labrador Foundation field staff conducted summer education camps for children from North Shore communities. They taught two central lessons: the importance of seabirds in the local ecosystem and the negative impact of human predation on seabirds. The net effect of the program was to instil conservation values into the families and communi- ties of the poachers. Gilles Chapdelaine, a CWS seabird biologist who has monitored seabird populations along the north shore regularly since 1975, feels that the Quebec-Labrador Foundation/CWS alliance has brought about a profound attitudinal change. Formerly, residents of the area actively resisted con- servation initiatives; today, they actively favour wildlife protection. Poaching and egging have been reduced to a small fraction of the levels observed in the 1970s.'^ In 1978, Bill Barkley was succeeded as head of interpretive services by Jim Foley. Foley, who had been working as an interpretation planning and eval- uation specialist with Parks Canada, now fell heir to a fully operational network of five wildlife interpre- tation centres. By this time, much of the impetus for further expansion of the network had dissipated. As a result of regionalization, the Research and Interpretation Branch no longer had direct authority over regional interpretive activities. In keeping with a pattern that app
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