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Originally Posted by scrapper
Hunters in general are anxious to play the blame game, some guy gets lazy, doesn't put in the effort and can't fill his tag. First thing out of his mouth is blame the wolves for low populations. Frankly I am sick of that BS. The wolves are a sign of a healthy Eco system.
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You may wanna go into west central Alberta and look at your elk populations. Some wintering grounds have gone from 4000+head to 300 head. And that wasnt due to two legged hunters! Has nothing to do with lazy!! When tag numbers are lowered to 5 tags each for elk and moose per WMU per year there is an issue! Wolves and predators in general are plentiful and at all time highs and ungulate numbers are all down. So is that sign of a healthy ecosystem? Hunters are playing the blame game!! They are blaming predators and know that things need to change. These changes need to be made by all users. And right now hunting and trapping are the only managment tools we have at this point and both need to be utilized to even just hold populations but seems neither group want any part of it.
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