Yes, I think that our management tools and techniques need to recognize a broad suite of tools. Habitat will always be fundamentally important where we have populations that have had too much impact on their habitat and their populations are declining. As the boreal caribou recovery strategy acknowledges, other management techniques may be required to sustain the population until the habitat can recover. We need a suite of management tools, habitat and non-habitat, and to keep our eye on the ball of restoring habitat to the levels needed for the different species that might be impacted.
On March 10th, 2015. See this statement in context.