Re: New plan: kill the moose to save the Caribou
Originally Posted by
Cordillera
In the Kennedy siding example described above there is a wolf reduction program that also covers the nearby herds quintette Moberly and Scott. Combination of First Nations ground trappers and aerial. Somewhere between 100 and 150 wolves removed each year for the last three years. And all three caribou herds are growing.
The biologists advocate that all different aspects have to be addressed at the same time. Protect caribou habitat, deal with immediate predator risk (usually but not always wolves) and reduce alternate prey levels (usually moose but not always) to something that is closer to what would exist if we didnt have so much logging and didn't have so many groceries from the early seral forests. And prevent access routes like seismic lines, snowmobile trails that make a wolf more successful.
That is the science. It clearly is a moral and ethical judgement about where you want to do these things and what you get for it. This caribou recipe will not help moose. It may not help caribou...but it will be more likely to keep caribou where they are otherwise doomed.
You nailed it imo.
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