botwood
09-24-2010, 12:32 PM
I'm new to big game hunting in Alberta and was surprised to find that for some zones all I had to do to get an elk liscence was to go and buy it (no draw required).
This leaves me with the question: why is that permitted. It seems to me that it could indicate a few diifferent things:
1 Very few people are interested in hunting that zone for some reason (perhaps its a remote location)
or does it mean
2 There are so many elk in the zone that hunting pressure would be insignificant.
or maybe
3 there are so few elk in the zone that allowing an opent hunt again would be of no consiquence.
is it a combination of these or some other reason that I havn't thought of ?
or maybe I'm just over thinking the situation.
This leaves me with the question: why is that permitted. It seems to me that it could indicate a few diifferent things:
1 Very few people are interested in hunting that zone for some reason (perhaps its a remote location)
or does it mean
2 There are so many elk in the zone that hunting pressure would be insignificant.
or maybe
3 there are so few elk in the zone that allowing an opent hunt again would be of no consiquence.
is it a combination of these or some other reason that I havn't thought of ?
or maybe I'm just over thinking the situation.