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Originally Posted by Scopithorne
This older age class won't exist there's to many preditors as it is. I'm not for or against atvs ect...but fewer traffic is going to have a negative impact game animals in the region. if someone were to go away from the town sites of Banff or Jasper a few miles you'd find the back country of those parks not to hold a ton of wildlife. And while I don't know this for certain but I have a hunch that wildlife population has slowly decreased since the installation of the parks.
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Why is this? Because you are 100% right. Look at the sheep decline on ram mountain. Hunting activity and people presences in some cases help animal populations. Since they shut it down, no one goes there anymore. They have nearly lost all their sheep. The few that are left are cougar bait.