Where's Farley Mowat now?

Rugdoc said:
There is a very active thread going on in the Huntingbc forum right now about predator management.

I wonder however if all the stated concern about "predator imbalance" isn't really to a certain degree at least, based on an anthropocentric notion that they are "our" deer and moose and that wolves and bears are taking them away from us.
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In the interior of bc the wolves are outa ####ing hand. Anyone who says there hard to find come to 7A and trying calling a moose or elk, let alone few caribou have been nearly extirpated. Last few years your far more likely to get dogs howling back than any ungulate. Not only game but they're pretty hard on livestock, out in salmon valley I know of one guy whose trapped 4 and shot 3 just this year and still has problems. Far too much coming off one side of the scale. Lots of black bears around which doesn't help, I seen 4 on a 6 km bike ride from home and had another in my yard the next day.
 
I recall that the first Mowat book I read was required reading when I was in public school (Never Cry Wolf? not sure...). It didn't sit well with me and I eventually got into trouble with the teacher of the class over my interpretation of the book and its author. She was every bit as much of a tofu-munching new-age tree-hugger as the worse you will meet today. Eventually a face-to-face meeting took place between my father and said teacher; by this time he had read the book, to see what all the fuss was about. I vividly recall him referring to Mowat as "Dis imbeceele" during the discussion. :)

I've always thought that Mowat and Disney vie for top honours as the most negative and destructive influence on the public view of animals/hunting/nature.
 
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