The club and French contravened the acts by allowing motocross bikes to race through streams in the Racehorse Creek area of the Crowsnest Pass in August of 2014. The bikers killed a number of bull trout, as well as westslope cutthroat trout, which are designated a threatened species. The Crown said during the trial that French was supposed to have built bridges for the bikers to cross the streams, but Crown witnesses who took photos of the race testified there was only one permanent bridge.