The very worst of all invasive species around my place are people.
It's the very same demographic group that are always getting killed in avalanches.
Darwinian Theory in action.True accidental misfortune is rare.
Our Mountain Caribou populations are declining despite the best of efforts and extinction is on the horizon.
No logging corridors for annual migrations, etc. That travel is just like clockwork just 50km west of me.
So, some human exclusion zones have been declared off limits to things like snowmobiling.
The snow compaction (and refreezing) creates a hard trail that the wolves use to hunt caribou.
Some winters, it's been good. I don't know how many were caught this winter but more than ever before.
Their capacity to create back country & alpine disturbance is amazing.
Sure looks like, even with our apparent wilderness, things go wrong and the ecology can't be fixed.
It's the very same demographic group that are always getting killed in avalanches.
Darwinian Theory in action.True accidental misfortune is rare.
Our Mountain Caribou populations are declining despite the best of efforts and extinction is on the horizon.
No logging corridors for annual migrations, etc. That travel is just like clockwork just 50km west of me.
So, some human exclusion zones have been declared off limits to things like snowmobiling.
The snow compaction (and refreezing) creates a hard trail that the wolves use to hunt caribou.
Some winters, it's been good. I don't know how many were caught this winter but more than ever before.
Their capacity to create back country & alpine disturbance is amazing.
Sure looks like, even with our apparent wilderness, things go wrong and the ecology can't be fixed.