Whitetails have been regularly taken/spotted up Sunday summit off the Hope/Princeton Hwy for over 30 years . As the crow flies, not very far and down hill all the way to the lower mainland. Why would anyone be surprised?
Whitetails have been regularly taken/spotted up Sunday summit off the Hope/Princeton Hwy for over 30 years . As the crow flies, not very far and down hill all the way to the lower mainland. Why would anyone be surprised?
I know from some experienced people that white tail have been spotted between whistler and squamish and I swear to this day I bumped 2 white tail out the squamish Valley driving out for blacktail on the road. This was 4 years ago but no one believes me.
I was surprised to see a pair of them up by Murray lake a few years ago although I’m not sure if I should have been...
Caddisguy I think it’s good to report evidence of WT and maybe even suggest that there should be a WT season do to concern about BT populations even. But I will be completely honest with you there will never be a spring season or any major steps taken to eradicate them from region 2.
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I am really starting to believe that it is logging that is really helping the expansions of WT.
And where there are WT's, wolves soon follow
I know I have seen in the EK, way back in the high country, where you would only see MD, we are
now seeing WT instead.
I have seen cutblocks that are so high up, just below the sub alpine/alpine which now are inhabited by WT's, and we now rarely see a MD in those areas!
WT's just seem to be able to migrate into these areas once logged where they never would have before.
Also, even 20 years after the cutblock happened and trees start to regen, the WT will hang in it all
day long, protected from view and plenty of feed.
I couldn't believe the past season up in the EK where I saw a WT doe.
Almost in Goat Country!
And miles beyond the last MD we saw going up.
I would have thought the Fraser would have been a bit of a natural obstacle for those WT's dropping down through Manning Park area's, but still . . . . they are rats.
There have been WT in the upper Fraser for decades. I remember as a kid when a deer tag was a deer tag our neighbor coming home with a 3pt WT from the Popkum Fraser area.
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Thought WT numbers were decimated by the doe season in the interior?
They are now showing up in rainforests of the lower mainland?
They keep expanding?
What?
This is pure nonsense to most that blame game managers for ever single problem to their hunting woes.
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