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Originally Posted by byronkentgraham
Releasing limited tags is specifically designed to control population. A perfect example is last year on CFB Suffield they released 500 elk tags to reduce the population. They wanted to reduce the population because they were becoming a nuisance and if their population wasn't controlled they would eventually eat themselves short of food.
Whether the number of grizzly tags is designed to maintain or to slowly increase population I'm not sure. That doesn't change the fact that they release tags to keep grizzlies at a manageable level. Managing grizzlies isn't just about grizzlies. It has effects on other predators such as wolves who are competing for much of the same prey.
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Yes, Elk tags in that particular area is a good example of using tags for population control. Yes, as dustyandaflames said, it is often used for deer as well in that way. It also functions as has been mentioned, however, to allow very limited hunting of animals that aren't officially "endangered", but can't afford to be overhunted, such as grizzly bears. They are not hunting grizzly bears to protect the food supply for wolves. They are actually part of the solution in regulating prey species such as deer and elk, which we have already agreed have overpopulation issues. In the interest of providing something other than the classic "Is too! Is Not!", I provide the link below.
http://davidsuzuki.org/issues/wildli...ars/learnmore/