The tiny community of Nakusp, B-C is feeling squeezed by an issue that divides residents between protecting the area's rare toad population and saving forestry jobs. Kootenay West New Democrat Katrine (kah-TREE'-nah) Conroy says every summer tourists come to Nakusp to safely transport migrating toads across the highway, but now many community members feel logging threatens the tiny amphibians. (B-C Forests Minister Steve Thomson says the area is open to logging but he's confident the toads are being protected.)

Date: 2016-02-23
Placeline: VICTORIA.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 13 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << they've been doing that migration for years and years and years and now and all that like there's hundreds of people go out and help them get across the road it looks like a a carpet of telephone across the road and little babies getting off the road >>

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