bigwhoop;
Good evening to you sir, I hope this finds you well at the tail end of this warm Sunday.
Our moose populations here in BC have been falling for a number of years now, though in the main it would appear that excessive predation from wolves is the primary reason.
Despite the fact that we've got very liberal wolf seasons in the entire province, the evidence indicates that the wolves have learned to use the ever expanding network of logging roads to become more efficient at killing moose - as well as the endangered mountain caribou herd that run into Idaho too.
There are a lot of concerns about climate change here though it's difficult to articulate how much that ties into the failing moose population.
Surely it's been decades and maybe more than that since some of the coastal salmon streams have been this low for instance - no snow pack last winter. That's caused the unprecedented step of shutting down fishing on many coastal and Vancouver Island streams and rivers as well as some into the interior here too.
Changing snow pack conditions, overall drier conditions and less browse might or might not be caused by climate change - that we can debate.
What we can't debate is the negative impact those conditions have had on our moose populations.
Hopefully that made some sense and was useful information for you or some other visiting hunters. All the best to you for the remainder of the summer and good luck on your hunts this fall.
Dwayne
