Spatially challenged

An interesting wildlife story on the CBC website demonstrates how geographically challenged are some CBC reporters. The headline reads:

We know we are in trouble immediately when the subtitle speaks of the “West Kootenays”. Alas, there is no such place. There is a West Kootenay and an East Kootenay, which together make up the Kootenays. (See a discussion at plural ascending.)

Ok, let us assume that the plural use of a singular place was just a lapsus calami. We are told that it is recovering there. But, where was it found and where is it recovering? The story tells us:

Huh? Neither Smithers (where it is recovering), nor Midway (where it was found) are in either of the Kootenays, let alone in the West Kootenay. 

The story is at Orphaned bear cub, but an editor may have fixed the text by the time it is viewed again, so I used images to preserve the original.