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Originally Posted by MooseRiverTrapper
We have world class habitat. Few provinces or states have habitat to support everything from antelope to mountain goats.
We have terrible management and year round hunting from natives.
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Bingo.
Another aspect is placing financial value on the wildlife to alleviate the damages that come from them to producers. I know people here hate the idea of paid access, but when you place financial value on the access to hunt, it makes supporting a healthy population of say elk on your property much more palatable than only incurring the damages for no financial gain. Does it offset the damages……the amount it helps depends on the quality of animals and what you can charge for a hunt or contract your land to an outfitter for. Like or not, that’s a big factor we don’t have and leads to producers wanting/needing numbers controlled to a lower density here.