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Originally Posted by walking buffalo
Hunters need to learn that Wilderness Parks are not a good thing for the future of hunting.
Jurisdictional authority to allow hunting, length of seasons, and allowable harvest levels is transferred from Fish and Wildlife to Parks.
When placed into the Parks system, hunters immediately are placed at the bottom of the totem pole of users. Any conflict, and hunters will be displaced in favour of other users.
Parks also has a different mindset as to allowable harvest. Parks managers tend to desire very low allowable harvests of ungulates, and little to no predator harvest.
One just needs to look at Kananaskis and the southern Wildland parks to see examples of how greater restrictions have been placed as Parks has taken over control.
Almost everything is on a low harvest draw. Seasons for sheep start two weeks later ( for non-hunting user desires) and black bear seasons close six weeks earlier.
Recall how much land has been subsequently closed to any hunting after Parks took control.
The Castle Plan explicitly states that in a few years Parks will revise hunting opportunity. Those that are content that hunting hasn't been effected by the new Park are ignoring that the changes to hunting have not been implemented yet.
Protecting areas from abuse and overuse DOES NOT require transferring the land into Parks authority.
I sure wish BHA could understand this....
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Holy sh*t... truer words have never been posted, this is the most spot on post I have ever seen on this issue ever.