Kayaker fights off hungry wolf on North Coast

Kayaker fights off hungry wolf on North Coast

Larry Pynn, CanWest News Service

Published: Wednesday, August 01, 2007

VANCOUVER -- A Port Moody kayaker's recent life-and-death struggle with a hungry wolf on B.C.'s remote North Coast -- the second wolf attack in the province in seven years, and the first thought to involve predatory intent -- has prompted a conservation officer to warn against taking wolf encounters too lightly.

"This was a predatory wolf attack," conservation officer James Zucchelli confirmed from his Bella Coola Valley office.

The 31-year-old kayaker was setting up his tent on a beach on the coast when an old female wolf emerged from the bushes and attacked, Zucchelli said.