A4 = January 6, 1988 B.C. to ship sheep to U:S. VICTORIA (CP) — Between 20 and 30 California bighorn sheep from British Columbia will be transported to Nevada and Idaho later this month as part of an international conservation project aimed at restocking traditional ranges. The province will ship 10 to 12 adults and three to five young sheep to the two states, biologist Daryll Hebert of the B.C. Environment Ministry said Tuesday. Nevada and Idaho will pay for trapping and transporting the bighorns, but the B.C. government will supply the manpower at no cost. Hebert said several hundred thousand California bighorn sheep ranged in the western United States until the 1800s when they were almost all removed by disease, hunting, poaching and the encroachment of mining. “The only ones that were left were in British Columbia and a small population in California,” he said in an interview from Williams Lake. In the past 30 years, Hebert said, nearly 200 sheep have been taken to the United States from the bighorn sheep's home range at the junction of the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers in cefitral British Columbia. He said there now are nearly 2,500 sheep in the six ~estern states, although there is the potential to restock areas with up to” 10,000 sheep. British Columbia has an estimated 2,500 bighorns, which Hebert said is close to traditional levels on the established ranges. Three methods will be used to trap the bighorns. The most effective is using bait to attract the sheep and then dropping a net over them. If that doesn’t work, Hebert said, the animals will be herded by helicopter into a panel of nets. The third method — used for selective trapping — is to fire a gun net from a helicopter to catch sheep one at a time. Once the sheep are caught, blood samples are taken and the animals are blindfolded and hobbled for shipment by truck. Hebert said bighorns are relatively easy to transport and only five have died out of the 200 shipped in the past five years, Those deaths occurred while the sheep were being held awaiting shipment. Boom times hit Whistler WHISTLER, B.C. (CP) — This ski resort community of 3,500 is heading toward what could be its busiest winter. But what's good news for the tourism industry isn't so good for people who live and work in the alpine village about a two-hour drive north from Vancouver along a winding, slide-prone highway carved into the Coast Mountain range. The reservations manager for the Whistler Resort Association estimates the occupancy rate will rise to the low 70s this winter from 68 per cent last year Don Armour says an additional 194 rooms have been added to bring the total number of rooms to 1,086 and another 156 rooms are expected by the end of the season. From Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 rooms were 100-per-cent booked. And total skier visits to the world-class ski facilities on Whistler and adjacent Blackcomb mountains are up 13 per cent from last season. While finding a job might be easy, finding a place to live is sometimes virtually impossible. NO VACANCY “Some people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on starting a business, but do not think where their employees will live,” says Brenda Langley, a single mother with two teenage sons who has formed the Whistler Residential Tenancy Society to help match employees with accom modation. Since she started her telephone hotline, Langley has had calls from desperate employees sleeping in their cars and others living in tents. She has helped about 160 people in the last few months. Langley, who eventually found a two-bedroom basement suite for $750 after a six-week search, says municipal council has not done enough for permanent residents. She says visitors are being shortchanged on service by distraught employees unable to find a decent place to live. As well, some businesses can’t hire enough staff because of the housing crunch Some residents attribute the pressure on housing partly to construction workers who have stayed longer than expected, taking suites and houses that usually rented to resort employees. Others blame the municipality for encouraging more hotel and condominium development instead of focusing on building more affordable housing for permanent residents. TOOK WINDOWS When Andy Bryce moved into his new home, he had to bring the windows along. The one-room cabin nestled on the shore of Alta Lake now has window panes, but still lacks running water. A wood fire is the only source of heat Bryce, a maintenance man for a time-share accom modation firm, considers himself fortunate to have found a place at all. “It only took me two weeks but I know of people who have been looking since September and still can't find anything,” said Bryce, 30 He pays $100 a month for the tiny cabin. He found the place through friends at the resort during his previous four winters here. Newcomers aren't so lucky Susan Shaw, 34, has spent the last four months living with her husband in a cramped trailer. SHARE HOUSES “I guess if you are 18 or 20, you can share a house with six or seven other people,” says Shaw, a bookkeeper for the local weekly newspaper. “But I'm a little too old for that.” Mayor Drew Meredith says the responsibility for providing housing for employees rests with buisinesses, not WANT THE BEST CHICKEN IN TOWN? 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