I have seen some decent bucks (MD) come out of there over the past 10 years or so.
They are there.
Good old days, you will see some in the BC books that came from the Lumby country and surrounding areas, both WT and MD.
One thing everyone has to remember, the seasons were open a lot longer back then, so any big bucks by the end of December were down and there was way more snow back then.
Plus, many of those bucks were taken on "private farm land".
The bucks I have seen of late were taken around Nov long weekend.
You will have to hike and get off the roads.
Wolves are not helping for sure.
Lots of areas were wolves are coming into the past 5 or 6 years now that never had them before, so its only going to get worse.