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Originally Posted by MountainTi
Wyoming and Colorado (USA) manage wildlife. Alberta does not (BC and Sask do a little better job)
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You're giving B.C way too much credit.
Hunting opportunity and game populations have plummeted over the last 10-15 years. Between predators and UNDRIP, licenced B.C. hunters are running out of game and land to hunt.
The B.C. politicians have handcuffed wildlife managers from properly looking after large game animals..
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Originally Posted by Pekan
This is the question I've been trying to find the answer to for several years.
I've heard that there are sometimes hundreds of elk on the Elkford area mine properties. That's not too far by elk standards.
In 305, 306, & 308 they can rut without a rifle season taking place. Makes sense they'd go where the pressure is less. But there doesn't seem to be any guarantees with that from my experience.
I don't know what kind of pressure the wolves see in 402 but I do know that a trapper used to work Bob creek in the winters, not sure if he still is. I would imagine wolves like the forest of 402 better, less chance of getting picked off by a hunter or rancher than the more open country to the east.
One other factor, Grizzlies. I was in central 402 in May of '22 looking for a Blackbear and saw three grizzlies on the side of a hill together. Looked like two Boars fighting over a sow based on the sizes of them. Just imagine how many calves those three could eat?
There's grizzlies east of 402 but that was the first time I've seen three grown grizz's together.
If I were king I'd get rid of the September 17th rifle season in 400, 402 and make the whole area 6 point or larger, 400, 402, 304, 305, 306, &308.
After a few years the elk hunting would be amazing. But too bad the ranchers control things, they'd never allow that.
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And everyone would be chasing the few raghorn six points.
As long as the wolf and grizz population is allowed to remain high, the mature bull elk hunting will never become amazing.
From a hunting harvest perspective, the three point rule at least allows for some harvest before the wolves kill those bulls.
BTW, There are lots of grizz in all of these units.