Moose hunting in the Omineca Region.

[rageous]

They should deactivate roads to prevent 4 legged predator usage not just 2 legged predator usage

[Caribou_lou]

They should deactivate roads to prevent 4 legged predator usage not just 2 legged predator usage

You'd have to restrict all backcountry winter activities in that case. Snowmobiles are always singled out for creating easy access for wovles into Caribou, Moose, sheep habitat. In reality, wolves could use a snowshoe track or cross country/backcountry ski track just as well as a sled track.

[rageous]

You'd have to restrict all backcountry winter activities in that case. Snowmobiles are always singled out for creating easy access for wovles into Caribou, Moose, sheep habitat. In reality, wolves could use a snowshoe track or cross country/backcountry ski track just as well as a sled track.

I see your point but usually the wolves follow the game.
In winter most game moves to lower elevation.

A lot of sledders use road systems. Same with skiers, same but lower snowshoers

[BearSupreme]

They should deactivate roads to prevent 4 legged predator usage not just 2 legged predator usage

Closing down roads will only restrict humans, its proven that logging roads in general have allowed predators (especially wolves) to expand their ranges and cover way more ground then they ever used to. Its hard to restrict a road once its there, they rarely fully grow over again and its usually with different plant life than the original area.

[Wild one]

They should deactivate roads to prevent 4 legged predator usage not just 2 legged predator usage

Ok explain how you would accomplish this?

[rageous]

Remove the road completely

In an area I hunt wolves travel the same roads going through cut blocks hunting just like humans on their quad or in trucks hunting do

[Wild one]

Remove the road completely

Pretty vague

You would actually need to get creative making roads unusable for wolves. Roads is the hot word right now but it’s actually a matter of man building travel routes and roads are just one. Railroad tracks, horse trials, hiking trails, atv/snowmobile trails, pipeline and the list goes on. It does not take much so think about the level of obliteration you would need to do to a road to impact a wolf

Travel routes created by man benifiting wolves is a negative on ungulates but it’s not as simple to solve as deactivating. Roads are this years hot topic but no one has a realistic approach to addressing it or saying that this issue goes beyond just a roads creating these travel routes

Remember the big kill WT to save MD from predators/competition program how effective was that? There is a hot topic save all theory thrown out every few years.

I do support that we need roads reclaimed, and habitat improvement but in the end dealing with predator issues we need predator control to see results

[rageous]

Good points Wild one. Too bad your a soon to be a non B.C. resident. You have a lot of good idears.

[Wild one]

Good points Wild one. Too bad your a soon to be a non B.C. resident. You have a lot of good idears.

Blame those who voted NDP lol

[Rob Chipman]

Recent study from northern Alberta indicates that putting lots of logs over the road makes an impact on reducing human and animal travel/predation. I'll try to find the study for details. Seems like such an easy fix that it sounds a bit too good to be true...but hey, they studied it as science.