Mountain Huntin Fool
For anyone who has submitted or participated in the AHTE regulation proposals, they've included the Reg 4 bighorn LEH for comment until Feb 11th.
Please take the time to comment!
Hunting/Trapping Regulations | AHTE (gov.bc.ca)
Also the WSSBC position on it.
WSSBC-Position-Region-4-Proposal-ADM-Muter.pdf (wildsheepsociety.com)
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HuntingBC Champ
Great letter by the WSSBC. Thanks for your stance.
Hopefully managers will follow true science, and not emotion like the G Bear decisions.
WSSBC
BCWF
CCFR
BHA
Banned
Too bad government always has their mind made up before even issuing consultations. Bc and Canada are phucked , embarrassing to say the least.
Mountain Huntin Fool
No doubt. This one sure sounds like they've made their minds up even after consultation with all stakeholders. Its unfortunate, but at least everyone has the opportunity to have their say.Originally Posted by Blacktail1
HuntingBC Champ
yes will comment and will support it going to LEH if set up correctly
Time to think about the wildlife and conservation
Senior Member
Do you even hunt? Pretty sure you are some kind of a troll , leaf licking green wiener.
Always throwing us hunters under the bus aren’t you.
Renaissance Redneck
Precisely why I clicked on his user name and clicked “ignore” many years ago.
If we’re not supposed to eat animals, how come they’re made out of meat?
BHA, BCWF, CCFR, PETA, Lever Action Addict.
HuntingBC Champ
okay, I'll bite
What's your rationale for voting for the change to LEH ?
head count? head quality? age class?
or just hunter control?
HuntingBC Champ
I have no idea where he is coming from....I cant answer that.
I will say this however, and it is the fact that I used to hunt for sheep in R4.
And my Dad way more than I, and in one of the MU's of R4 that was GOS for sheep.
While hunting elk, holding a blowing a bugle in one hand, with the other work the spotting scope pointed up the mtn looking
for sheep.
There was a time where we would always see sheep/rams all the time.
And some decent rams were taken on those mtn's etc.
But, these days you rarely ever spot sheep anymore up there if at all.
Actually, its been a good number of years now since seeing them to be honest.
There certainly is an issue with the sheep, or at least in some parts of R4.
BUT, it certainly wasn't HUNTING that impacted them.
There was a time where the area had plenty of sheep hunters in there.
Probably 3 to 1 vs elk hunters at one time.
But again, success was very limited and if anyone did okay, it was the local GO only.
But again, it wasnt hunting back then that caused any declines and it certainly isnt now.
So, how it turning a GOS season into an LEH season going to correct it??????
IF the issue is not hunting related, it wont be resolved by limiting hunting further.
This is a big issue with policies in regards to hunting all over the province.
It's a piss off to see our Ministry still continues to manage wildlife in such an improper manner.
Stop hunting today, and the beasts will still disappear!
HuntingBC Champ
Pretty sure the decision has already been made, imo, but people should add there input nonetheless.
Sadly, I think we will see all sorts of LEH province wide for all sorts of species that are currently GOS.
If we aren't going to see a whole new direction implemented where a ton of money is sunk into Conservation/Habitat,
there wont be any other option left other than to curtail further hunting, even though hunting isn't the issue causing the
declines.
Totally F'd.
Again, time for hunters to get "into politics" to save our wildlife and our hunting heritage.
Writing letters to Anti's and Special Interest Groups that are "actually in power" is an utter waste of time.
Thus has been the case so far.
Doesn't matter how many hunting groups we have.
You have to be situated in the right circles of power, not on the outside any longer!
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