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The backroads of Campbell River are being turned into a dumping ground for wild animal parts, according to a local business owner who says she has found everything from a bear carcass to a moose head.

Jme Andrew, who operates a trail riding business in the community, said a remote road where people sometimes toss old junk like toilets and window blinds has recently been used to dispose of something more gruesome.

“We’re finding full carcasses, unharvested meat,” she said. “Just this weekend, we found a dump site of what looks to be maybe a big game hunter that took all his clients’ game and dumped it in one giant heap.”

That heap included various skulls, bones and the entire remains of what appears to be a young brown bear.

“It could be a young, adolescent bear or it could be just a really runty two-year-old bear. It could’ve been taken legally, we don’t know that,” she said. “There’s no definitive proof otherwise, but I don’t foresee any reason to take such a young animal or small animal. Let it grow up, let it get bigger.”

Andrew said she has no objection to animals being hunted and that she herself is an occasional hunter, but she’s raising concerns about possible unethical dumping.

She’s also curious as to where the bear could have come from, saying brown bears are uncommon in the area.

“It’s light brown, it’s the colour of a fence post versus a black witch [hat] on Halloween, and that’s just not something I’ve ever seen here on Vancouver Island,” she said. “Talking with other hunters here, they’d never seen such a thing either.”

Poaching bears younger than two years old is illegal in B.C. and Andrew said she’s notified the BC Conservation Officer Service of the gruesome discovery.

The Ministry of Environment declined to comment to CTV News until it can investigate further, but has previously said poaching isn’t uncommon on the Island.

“We know it happens on highways on Vancouver Island and it also happens on highways all over British Columbia,” Conservation Officer Gord Gudbranson said in Nov. 2014 “It’s a problem that’s hard to detect because people can easily harvest an animal and be gone within minutes.”

Jme said she’s aware of plenty of ongoing poaching in the region that can be investigated by the agency.

With a report from CTV Vancouver Island's Gord Kurbis