The issue isn’t so much grizz human conflict, it’s how many elk/moose calves they eat.
The issue isn’t so much grizz human conflict, it’s how many elk/moose calves they eat.
Bang on.
Your other answer of “not enough” to the original question was also spot on.
I know ranchers who’ve been in the heart of grizzly country for decades that never had problems like they do now. They can’t even walk out the front door without worrying about having a gun handy.
The guides and outfitters DEFINITELY are not shooting them all of the time....
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ICBC seems to be a driver to some wildlife management decisions, maybe they have files on wildlife/vehicle interactions
Often thought the info could be used as an indicator for population trends, collisions going up or down may reflect local pop number changes, for any species really
Glad to say I have hunted Northern BC
Simon Fraser had pretty good judgement on what he found in BC
Clayton Lamb did a good paper on road density and the impact on gbears
Proctor, M, McLellan B.M, Stenhouse, G.B, Mowat, G., Lamb CT, Boyce, M.S. 2020. Effects of roads and motorized human access on grizzly bear populations in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.
Glad to say I have hunted Northern BC
Simon Fraser had pretty good judgement on what he found in BC
How many are being killed? Not enough than there has been since the closure.