YUP You bet 40 incher ! :wink: RJ
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I'm not so sure its the bears, before this province was populated with non-native people there were bears. Wildlife populations were managed by nobody, the pops went up and down for all species, its not going to be any different now, except when it go's down it wont be coming up again without game management.
Its unlikely that Natives kept the bears in check or even cared about them for food, they were hunted in their dens for clothing.
Why has the bear pop gotten to such a high number?
what is the food source that has caused this? Moose?
Bears hang out in calving area's no doubt, I'm not going to be so quick to say that there is a real problem with them, regardless of what science says, its easy to put some of the blame on them.
I think that Moose have simply been hunted to hard for too long by resident hunters, FN, now Wolves, the bungling of our government via the forest industry. With 100,000 resident hunters it would be foolish to believe theres not going to be some impact.
like most opinionsQuote:
regardless of what science says