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Originally Posted by marky_mark
Only place your allowed to hunt woodland caribou
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Question, is this most likely due to no predators such as wolves, same applies to the islands moose populations/density?
Black bears for sure for known predators, predation on the moose calves, not sure on the caribou.
Or is it better management practices?
Some other locations with dwindling woodland caribou populations are merely squeeking by, only due to lack of an ice bridge for wolves to cross over to the offshore islands where carbou are for majority of the season. Two notable seasons where ice had formed, resulted in high numbers of predation, those that survived were helicoptered to other nearby islands with no ice bridge.
To try and save the caribou in these locations they are allocating high cow moose tags to reduce the moose population/density so as to remove the prey from the landscape in hopes of saving the diminished northshore woodland herd or what remains, less than 40 from recent numbers.
So decimate the moose herd in 5 WMU in a last ditch effort to save 30-40 caribou that ultimately are at the fate of an ice bridge to the inhabitated islands.
Ungulate management at its finest...
This fiasco is called the Caribou Mosaic.
Predators, harvest numbers, habitat defragmentation are they all applicable to lower numbers of the migratory herds which once numbered in the thousands?