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Originally Posted by Rabbit Snarer
You have a reasonable question about reducing wolves by 25%. Wolves in the referred to area have a annual mortality of about 35% which they recover from every year only with pup survival, no outside recruitment needed. You would have to increase the mortality rate by your 25% for it to be additive in order to make some small change and then continue doing it every year thereafter. For there to be a significant change the overall population would have to be reduced by 80% as the carnivore specialist on the CTV documentary said. I don't think either of these reduction rates are possible.
As for mitigating other factors all you have to do is look at how the caribou situation in AB is being handled. Unless the new government values wildlife more than clear cutting and gas and oil production it's hopeless.
As it is now the only influences which can realistically be changed are a reduction in non treaty hunters. This will happen as soon as treaty hunters have difficulty obtaining game. Our hunting will be stopped because they have priority over wildlife.
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Your math don't add up. If the actual mortality rate is 35%, and at that rate the herd stay stable. We don't need 80% to reduce the population, but only 40% would generate a 5% decrease in population. And 5% is better than none.