Grizzly hunt ban poll

[MiG25]

I've heard that huckleberry fattened grizzly is excellent eating.

 

[canadian hunter312]

Like wolves, cougars, coyotes, seals, sharks, et cetera they are a predator which must be managed in the same manner as other wildlife to maintain a natural balance and in order to sustain a healthy population and harvest of herbivorous species, carnivores must be kept in check by the same measure.

There is nothing natural about humans deciding what the proper population level of each game animal should be. Believe it or not, but wildlife can manage their own populations long term without human intervention.

 

[rustysdream]

Liberals are at it again.

 

[DFarmer]

There is nothing natural about humans deciding what the proper population level of each game animal should be. Believe it or not, but wildlife can manage their own populations long term without human intervention.

That may be the case, but humans also exist, and by just being here we are intervening in their natural surroundings with our cites, farms , roads, mines and logging. Without hunting, nature would probably reach an equilibrium of some sort, but humans (on both sides of the hunting spectrum) would probably not like the result.

 

[anorden]

Liberals are at it again.

Liberal is a relative term in bc. It must be sun news networks lowest audience (including pei).

For what it's worth Liberal premier Christy Clark stood up and defended grizz hunting and the biologists that set the quotas. She just went up in my estimation!

 

[07blackwater]

Liberal is a relative term in bc. It must be sun news networks lowest audience (including pei).

For what it's worth Liberal premier Christy Clark stood up and defended grizz hunting and the biologists that set the quotas. She just went up in my estimation!

There's a big difference between federal and provincial liberals.

 

[Big Jon]

There is nothing natural about humans deciding what the proper population level of each game animal should be. Believe it or not, but wildlife can manage their own populations long term without human intervention.

Another poster already said it, but....

Bring in logging, roads, O & G development, urban sprawl, agriculture, non-consumptive recreational land use, etc., etc., etc. and wildlife doesn't become so good at managing itself anymore...unless extreme highs followed by extreme lows and back and forth is what you want...neither of which is typically acceptable from a wide variety of stakeholders.

 

[canadian hunter312]

Another poster already said it, but....

Bring in logging, roads, O & G development, urban sprawl, agriculture, non-consumptive recreational land use, etc., etc., etc. and wildlife doesn't become so good at managing itself anymore...unless extreme highs followed by extreme lows and back and forth is what you want...neither of which is typically acceptable from a wide variety of stakeholders.

Wildlife management is all about fixing the problems we've caused and ensuring the animals we'd like to hunt have healthy populations. Selfish bunch, aren't we?