Be it noted I know scavengers have to live also! I do not object to this use.
My objections are partly selfish in not being able to take bulls when they are both edible and available because of a cultural prejudice that doesn't apply to me.
Part of it is than these new regs are not only ineffective and largely not enforceable, but may actually be detrimental to the stated goal in that in meeting meat needs, it takes more cows than bulls to achieve the same mass, at least for those of us willing to shoot winter bulls, plus the potential (and I admit, speculative) waste of mistakes abandoned in the field and that of orphaned calf meat. Mandating killing 3 caribou (plus any other future offspring in successive years) to supply less protein than a bull (of less reproductive value to the herd as a whole) kill is simply bad game management driven by PC politics.
The biggest thing that bothers me is the suffering those orphaned calves will experience before they die, unless quickly killed by wolves or hunters. (A clear case of killing something to save it????
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