Totally agree
Totally agree
This is where we, as resident hunters, are being screwed by the Wildlife Branch.
The FN's don't want to be allocated 300 bulls in South Skeena. They will harvest what they want, and bulls will be 10% or less. Our regulations work because we know that. Licensed hunters can only kill bulls, the railway kills and highway kills and FN kills of predominantly cows and calves evens everything out ... and we have a good bull:cow ratio as a result ... 35 bulls per 100 cows as of this winter according to the bureaucrats. So what's the problem?
The modest bow hunts in South Skeena are inconsequential in the harvest but large in hunter opportunity and participation. Unfortunately the bureaucrats have a biased view of it all. Their anti-hunting agenda is being made clear.
Been hunting 6-02 for over 20 yrs. You would see moose everyday everywhere back then. Even up to 4-5 yrs ago they were still plenty. Wolves yes, hunters yes but still animals and sign. Last 3 seasons you can count the number seen collectively on one hand. All this just happens to coincide with the local FN's having taken ownership of the only barge capable of ferrying multiple vehicles across, which they did daily.
^^^^well with our increased dedicated funding that we should have in the near future, hopefully one of the first priorities the ministry takes into consideration is FN education, because the one time stewards of the land haven't yet figured out for themselves what their doing wrong...
Yep Leh numbers down, FN take what they want thus game numbers dwindling and cutting off more and more land use for the rest of us , guides getting fewer tags, less game every where. Thanks
Last edited by cannotsin1; 05-01-2017 at 09:24 AM.
Who is the thief ? The man who hunts for food or the ones who make him pay to hunt game for their gain for that which is not theirs to sell.