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Originally Posted by West O'5

Another version.....

Once upon a time there was a wild and unspoiled land called Alberta full of open spaces and teeming with wildlife.
Then one day Uncle Jed shot at a gopher in his carrot patch,and up from the ground came a bubblin crude....oil that is.....black gold.....Texas tea.
Well the next thing ya know ol' Jed's a millionaire,and people came from all over Canada and the rest of the world to get in on the action.
Lots of those new Albertan Canadians were hunters,and the human population exploded,and wide open,uncrowded spaces got harder to find.
Luckily for all,Alberta is still one of,if not the best places in Canada to be for outdoorsman with rediculous amounts of hunting opportunities for several species of big game,epic flights of waterfowl,year round hunting for coyotes and varmints,and pretty lax firearms restrictions by comparison to other CDN provinces.......but there's still a buncha crusty old timers/life long Albertans with nothing better to do then bitch and moan and whine on Internet forums about new Albertans and "the good 'ol days",not grasping the fact that things could be ALOT worse nor appreciating how good they've actually got it here.
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If hunters and people were causing the demise of moose and elk, why are there few elk or moose in the Blackstone and Willmore and plenty of elk and moose on the prairies? Predators are 100% of the problem with declining moose, elk and caribou populations in the mountains and foothills.

..predators may be a large part of the problem in the mountains and foothills but I doubt they are the ones that are peeing off a lot of the landowners. Sure, we have it good here but if the past decade or two is a crystal ball glimpse of the next one or two, what are you seeing ? .. without the rosy glasses.