Canadian Politics Today

Once upon a time I was tasked to head west out of Fort Nelson over to the northern Rocky's and buzz around with a couple of hunters and shoot all the wolves we could find. This was to support a wealthy hunting lodge owner in the area who made his money by bringing in mostly American hunters to shoot elk, and of course if you kill off the wolf population, the elk population will increase. Now I'm not against hunting, I've walked through the woods with a gun myself, but that didn't seem right to me so I refused to do the job. They found someone else of course but I found out later that if you pick off a part of a wolf pack, the ones that get away will all breed in an effort to support the population. So the bottom line seems to be that killing a few wolves will over time result in more wolves. We need to be careful how we mess with nature.