The owner of a farm near Dunster was fined $500 for failing to report the shooting of wildlife in relation to the alleged deaths of four grizzly bears near Dunster, but five other charges he was facing were stayed Friday during a hearing in McBride provincial court.
Arlan Harry Baer had also been facing counts of hunting without a licence, hunting out of season, unlawful possession of dead wildlife, failure to state date or location of killed wildlife and resisting or obstructing a conservation officer.
The initial complaint was made in Sept. 2014 and it is alleged a sow and cubs were found dead on a rural property. Charges were laid in in June.
A former principal of McBride Christian Day School, Baer runs a family farm that has both Holstein dairy and beef cows. Under the Wildlife Act there are provisions where a rancher can protect his livestock.
