I can attest to the fact, I will actually swear on the bible that the moose and bear, black and grizzly, are still well and alive, and flourishing in the great Canadian North. Actually, I live in souther BC and both moose and bear, and coyote, and raccoon, and porcupine, and ground hog, and cougar, and skunk, and numerous other wildlife are doing just fine here. I live in a rural area and I see them all. There is no shortage, and no one is here hunting them to extinction. Jeez I wish people knew what they were talking about before shooting off their mouths.
Of course they are . If anything there are more now than ever. Deer in Southern Ontario are next to a pest . Alfalfa , corn and wheat fields offer a feast they never had in the bush , with no natural predators around . Moose and bears abound in Northern Ontario. Woodland Caribou are still found north of Superior and Elk have been brought back to the Perry Sound , Sudbury area . With the elimination of the spring bear hunt and the mild winters bears are next to out of control. The only extinction I know of occurred 2 hundred years ago when the beaver were decimated in North Eastern Ontario by the fur trade . Now the beaver can be found all over Ontario .
2004 population: Moose, Ontario 115,000 , Quebec 100,000 New Brunswick 23,000
Deer, Ontario 400,000 , Quebec 285,000 New Brunswick 85,000
Ontario in the 60s and 70s at least, canadians did not even need a license to hunt deer
That's wrong. First resident deer license I bought was in '66 . Cost me $10. Non resident was more . And you better have a license, It wasn't uncommon to encounter Lands and Forest roadblocks . And they'd take everything but your clothes if you had a deer and didn't have a license .
btw, Moose do not herd and bears don't travel in January . Unless they're sleep walking.