I've been guiding moose hunters in the Yukon for 30 plus years now. I work for Ceaser Lake Outfitters. Check them out, great outfit and great people. The difference between the Yukon and Alaska is pressure. The population in Yukon is about 35k people. Hunting pressure is almost non existent in the areas we hunt. You wont see another hunter. Yukon is a Territory, not a Province.
Thank you for the correction! I did not know the distinction meant anything. I have a tiny grasp of the differences now.
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Good evening to you Art, I hope the week has been treating you acceptably and this finds you well.
Since you sort of/kind of asked the difference between a province and a territory is that there is a constitutional distinction between provinces and territories. While provinces exercise constitutional powers in their own right, the territories exercise delegated powers under the authority of the Parliament of Canada.
More or less, provinces have the ability to have a broader control over most facets of governance than territories which are linked to the Federal government via Parliament. Not that the Federal Government doesn't have way too much control over much of our daily lives, but broadly speaking that's the difference.
As far as hunting pressure, it's a different world in the Yukon which I'll illustrate with a story my buddy told me when he first moved up there from BC.
There is a fair bit of hunting pressure here in BC even in the north because there's more of us and typically folks moving to the western most province do so for the outdoor experience.
Anyway Art, buddy was fueling up at remote Yukon gas station and asked the attendant if there was a lot of sheep hunting pressure on the mountain behind the station. The chap looked at him a wee bit perplexed and replied that as far as he was aware, and since he'd been there for 25 years he would be aware - but as far as he knew nobody had been up on that mountain for any reason in a decade!
All the best to you and your fine family sir and Happy Thanksgiving.
Dwayne