^ The problem is there are no hard facts; the Gov't fudged the numbers when they did that grizzly study, for political reasons I believe. So if you have to go by their BS numbers, you're screwed in trying to get a hunt.
It's my belief they worked that process to ensure they fell at a number that was above Endangereed Species Status but below numbers that could prove a hunt was okay. And that they did this so there could be no reduction in resource exploitation, in the prime grizzly habitat.
If somebody knows different say so.
If you know anything at all about the Swan Hills, it was once home to a huge number of grizzlies. The world record grizzly was shot in the Swan Hills region (Bella Twin), plus a number of other B&C bears.
But if you've travelled through here in the last ten years, you'd swear they are trying to create wheat fields. The way they are laying down the forest here is BULLs**t, criminal in my mind. No regard for the wildlife.
Moose and grizzlies don't pay taxes to the Gov't I guess, so who needs 'em?
If we had a pristine wilderness here, without the resource development, logging etc that's going on here, then I might support a hunt.
It's pretty easy for someone in BC to support a hunt, you've still got ~15,000 grizzlies, we've got a mere 1,000-1,500 (don't believe the gov't numbers).
