Originally Posted by
Bugle M In
Yup, I agree, although some could tell you that a park like Kootenay National Park isn't holding the ungulates, especially elk
like it did in the 70's.
They tried with fire, and it hasn't made a huge difference, at least form the Parks people who know the area well.
Mind you, most of them weren't even born then??
Lots of elk outside the park where logging happened.
BUT the big difference was back then, logging was more "sporadic"!
and that's how it was supposed to be. or at least, that's as much as they could log at the time.
Changes in equipment and how they practice have changed a lot over the years.
And sadly, requires less crew members, so less jobs, more timber down and lots of roads etc etc etc.
Again, I think some things we can "generalize" as to "common issues" with game and many parts of
BC.
But like WildOne stated, BC is very diverse in habitat, and not everything is the same template as far as fixes go, imo.