Caribou Protection Undone - Illegally Reopened Road

[Dannybuoy]

When I read that story, I was shaking my head.

Wolves should have no problem getting around a little bit of road deactivation. So, once on the other side, they can just keep cruising along. So either there were details missing or they just weren't making sense. Unless long stretches from that road were torn up and restored...

When they deactivate the roads , they now pile brush and tear them up so bad a deer can't even walk on it , at least here in the WK that's what they started doing.

[cptnoblivious]

When they deactivate the roads , they now pile brush and tear them up so bad a deer can't even walk on it , at least here in the WK that's what they started doing.

Thanks for that, it's different than what I'm used to (i.e. dig out culverts, make a bigger hole and pile stuff up on the other side)

[HappyJack]

Deactivation's won't slow the wolves down much, they deactivate to keep people out not wild animals.

[Drillbit]

Deactivation's won't slow the wolves down much, they deactivate to keep people out not wild animals.

No kidding.

Anyone that thinks deactivating a road will slow down a wolf they should work for the CBC

[mooze]

No kidding.

Anyone that thinks deactivating a road will slow down a wolf they should work for the CBC

a major purpose is to keep sledders out. Sleds compact the snow so that wolves walk on the tracks easily and cover distance. So if you block roads for sledders and have them grow over again, the goal is achieved. Not an immediate solution though, willows and trees need time.

[Walking Buffalo]

When they deactivate the roads , they now pile brush and tear them up so bad a deer can't even walk on it , at least here in the WK that's what they started doing.

There is a nugget in this post.

Besides making predator travel less efficient, road deactivation makes these roads less attractive to prey.

One factor in road/predator mortality rate is the probability predators will make contact with prey.

The less often prey use the roads, the less chance predators will find them.

[303savage]

illegally restored a road that was deactivated to help protect calves from wolves

Since when has deactivating road stopped wolves?

[sthdslayer]

Read post number 15

[Dannybuoy]

Since when has deactivating road stopped wolves?

Apparently the powers that be have decided that it indeed does , maybe a biologist saw a photo in a magazine that showed an elk killed by a wolf on a road ? Gotta love science !! Not !

[Dannybuoy]

Read post number 15

Yeah .... like sleds need roads ....