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Originally Posted by Titanium79
Well acording to this it shows that in a non hunted area such as banff the total % of rams is 5% show how is it going to be that high when a % of rams get shot every year. This is common sense and a truly poor peice to try and make a change. According to these numbers we should pull all outfitters tags and quit selling raffle tickets for the minister raffle and stop auctioning off the sheep tags as we don't want to hurt the herds in the parks either. These late season tags hurt numbers out of parks because these November rams killed are out of parks. The outfitters kill more rams then residents and so should be the ones having change. Changeling does not change % of rams that are legal. It will change nothing other than making a whole bunch of animal unable to ever be harvested.
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Ok I will poke some holes in your point. For starters outfitters do not kill more sheep than residents. This is beyond argument. I don't even know how you could posibly come up with that falsehood.
Did you notice the dates of the survey. One was March, one was January. The lower number in March points to mortality of Rams post rut. Rams die after the rut. Just like elk, deer, etc they are low on reserves after breeding and winter takes them before spring. Without older Rams to regulate the rut the mortality of class 3 Rams is higher than what it should be in a healthy population.
March/2014 Results: Provincial Lands - Total sheep=398, total rams = 72 (8 legal or 2%),
rams/100 ewes = 35.2 and lambs/100 ewes = 35. Banff Park - Total sheep = 56, total rams = 15
(3 legal or 5.4%), rams/100 ewes = 53.6, and lambs/100 ewes = n/a no lambs seen
Jan. 11-13/15 Results: Provincial Lands Total sheep = 1568, total rams = 260 (48 legal or
3.1%), rams/100 ewes = 28.2, and lambs/100 ewes = 37.7. Banff Park Total sheep 288. Total
rams = 87 (29 legal or 10.1%), rams/100 ewes = 59.2, and lambs/100 ewes = 36.7
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