He's anything but a hunter.
More like another, Rain Coast Sociopath Fraud. Living off the prevails of his chronic lies, like the rest of them...
It's an issue, because these sociopath environmentalist's, will dilute the facts.
To the point you or Joe public, won't know them any more..
They count on that big time..
I wont be checking any nutsacks for the Alpha wolf thing, just start shooting.
I have always seen that wolves like the roads, so yes, in my opinion, the more roads, the worse the #'s can become.
I also think, and this is just my opinion, but ever since the pine beetle really started to show it's effects and real potential for destruction, and the logging Co's started to literally cut anything that was still green, before the beetle
got to it, that wolves have exploded in #'s because of that.....
Basically, when the snow gets deep enough, which happens faster in open clear cuts, rather then under the tree canopied areas (unlogged), that the wolves become very efficient at killing.
Ever watch a pack of wolves take down a healthy elk?....that elk steps into one snowdrift, that is a little deeper with snow then rest, and they get tripped up real quick, and that's it...the wolves have that animal down in seconds!
I think because of all the logging we've done the last 15 - 20 years now, and at a high rate because of the beetle,
has led to the wolves increase in population, because it has even given them a larger advantage when hunting their
prey now.....that's what my eyes are telling me anyways...
As for the roads, yes, the wolves like them a lot for traveling, but in my opinion, if it was "only" the fact that we had more roads in the back country, we may not be seeing the high wolf #'s we do now.
I really do think it is the open landscape that we have created, and especially during the winter months, that has led to the wolves increase.
Either way, yes, I do think man was responsible for that.
And no matter what we recreational weekend hunters do to help remove wolves, I doubt we will put a dent into the #'s and like others say, possibly just make it worse.
So, we either let the wolves hammer all the game, until they are gone, and thus, they the wolves eat themselves out
of house and home, which I question how many years that will take....or..
the ministry really has to do something about it.
Sadly though, I think this government would rather see the wolves perish naturally, and instead, take away opportunities for us, and tell everyone else that they are doing this to ensure that ungulate #'s increase to everyone else.
If we had doubts in the past that the ministry was going to set a policy that would help remove wolves with the former government, we can feel pretty assured that this ministry now, under the new regime, will doing nothing at all....at least not what we were hoping!
We won't be wondering where the deer are...
We will be wondering where we will still be allowed to hunt.
Just chiming in from 8-14, 8-15, found much smaller WT and grouse density noted in the areas I hunt in these regions. Last year on last evening of season (Nov) was hunting northeast corner of 8-15 and saw nothing but Wolf trails everywhere. Got them howling as the sun went down. This year first spring thaw went back to shed hunt and observed more of the same (dense track), this season can't find a single deer hair in same habitat that was successful for years. Suspect deep snowpack/cold temps and predators are the high percentage cause IMO.
"Just ask anybody who packs a 338... the 30-06 will bounce off a grizzly!"
"I am not here to awaken sheep, I am here to awaken sleeping lions" Husky7mm
I have no doubt that roads increase the predation efficiency by wolves ...but they are still efficient predators away from human influence.
Look no further than the thread on wolves in the Tuchodi. No roads...no logging....no oil and gas development.
SSS
https://oceola.ca/
http://bcwf.net/index.php
http://www.wildsheepsociety.net/
I Give my Heart to my Family....
My Mind to my Work.......
But My Soul Belongs to the Mountains.....
Or my thread "Death of a Valley".
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showth...th-Of-A-Valley
Zero access yet took a thriving elk herd and cleaned them out.
There is Way more to the wolf explosion than simple "cycles".
Another reason to support a sustainable science based funding model.
With money and more science based research a better understanding can be reached how to help with all wildlife issues.
Last edited by Ourea; 11-01-2017 at 02:55 PM.
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