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Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf
You can have large numbers of apex predators (Wolves, bears and cougar). Or you can have large numbers of elk,moose, deer and caribou in our mountains and foothills. However you can not have both, pick your choice.
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Once the carnivores start to starve from the lack of game and die off the game may rebound. Like you say you cant have both,at some point we may have very few of either.
Managing the large predators is not something our government has the stomach or the budget for,unless its to save the Woodland Caribou which are probably going to fade away, with or without help.
Alberta was once world famous for its mountain hunting,its still there in a few pockets, if you have the ways and means to reach it. For the most part its gone, and the hills and valleys are empty of HUNTABLE numbers of Mule deer,Moose and Elk.