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Originally Posted by thumper
Our caribou are a relic ice-age species. They're taking longer to die off than mammoths, mastodons and ground sloths, but they're just as doomed. Even in totally protected areas like our mountain national parks, they've either disappeared (like in Banff National Park), or their numbers continue to drop (like in Jasper NP). We can spend billions and vent our rage about wolf killing or not wolf killing, extending their extirpation from Alberta if we wish, or just accept the inevitable.
There are many wildlife managers out there that would love to re-direct the resources spent on propping up caribou - into areas where they could really make a difference. Unfortunately, in this PC world, it's career suicide for them to speak up with those views.
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Haven't the anthropologists determined that early North American hunters hunted these species (mammoths and mastodons) into extinction?
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