Not sure if this has been mentioned......there are no Wolves in NF, it would seem a success rate of 100% in NF, and although high in BC, I doubt you are going to see the same amount of Moose as what the guys who have hunted NF do.
I hear reports of wanting to introduce Wolves to NF, but that would be retarded.
There are no wolves but there are black bears. Not sure what effect they would have on young moose predation.
Studies here showed bears to be far more effective at killing calves than wolves. Both flavors got their share.
The caribou abandoned where we hunt a couple winters ago. Horrible mismanagement on the part of ADF&G not keeping the numbers down.
It seems the much smaller number of wolves remaining, and more likely the lack of caribou to distract them, the bears have done a stellar job of killing moose calves. We saw one moose calf this fall. We also saw more bears than bull moose.
Bears sure do kill calves and fawns. I just had this discussion with a friend, if you only kill boars (black) you haven't done anything to control the population of Bears, you have made it worse by killing only boars, who would otherwise do some control of their own.
I think Wolves are pretty efficiant at killing Calves too, but may hunt differently, I know Bears will simply hang out in a Calving/Fawning area and just kill stuff. That was happening locally, then someone ended it with a gunshot, but before the slaughter ended that Bear probably killed a dozen Fawns.
