Wildlife in the remote areas of the North Cariboo are inadvertently helping their fellow creatures.
Cariboo Regional District Area C director John Massier has created a calendar featuring images of wildlife he captured on game cameras on his woodlot that surrounds his home along the Cottonwood River.
All net proceeds from the calendars will go to Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter in Smithers, B.C.
The shelter has a mission to rescue, rehabilitate and release orphaned wildlife.
"These images were all taken within one-and-a-half kilometres of my home," Massier said Thursday, Nov. 7 during a break at the CRD meeting in Williams Lake.
"Last year I raised $810 from calendar sales and gave that to Northern Lights."
He said the photographs he chose were selected from activated game camera photos taken during the last eight years.
"I just love this one," he said as he pointed to a photograph depicting a large black bear and a very young bear having a bit of standoff. "That video was something to see."
Massier's electoral area covers Bowron Lake, Barkerville and Barlow Creek, areas where he never tires of seeing wildlife.
"The other day I saw a grizzly bear, moose and some wolves," he said.
Massier and his wife Hazel have lived at the property for more than 40 years and had the surrounding woodlot license for more than 30.
Sharing photographs and making the calendars has become a good, fun side hobby, he said.
Anyone interested in purchasing a calendar is asked to email him at jmassier4@gmail.com.
