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Originally Posted by NCC
There used to be 150 elk in the Blackstone in the 90's and now there are zero. Plenty of grass, no poachers, no subsistence hunters, no industrial activity and no cow tags.
Same thing in the National Parks and the Willmore. The grass is stirrup high, virtually no hunting pressure, and there are very few ungulates.
These are just two examples of the many mountain areas that don't see much hunting pressure and have no game animals left. The ungulates aren't starving to death, they're being killed by predators. When a herd of 30 cow elk has no calves by fall, it's not a nutritional problem.
The bio in BC that had video of a single gbear killing 50 caribou calves should be enough evidence to convince SRD that predators are the problem but no one wants to believe it.
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The trend seems to be to make management decisions on predators based on feelings,emotions and politics rather than facts and science