I would definitely point out that species populations ebb and flow all the time. I've always made a comment to our biologists that we're very effective at managing ungulates and other game species, but we're not very effective at managing predators. Our predator numbers in Saskatchewan are almost always above what we would consider to be the optimum level. Right now with bears and wolves, we're at well over 30% of what would be considered a 10-year normal average.
We talked about the agricultural process. In the 1950s and 1960s there were no white-tailed deer in Saskatchewan. We didn't have racoons. We didn't have wild turkeys. We didn't have a lot of the species that are prevalent today. It was the agricultural process they followed that came here and that landscape was changing and continues to do so. As those things occur, certain species take great advantage of them and some unfortunately don't do as well.
It's an ebb and flow process. That's why we need good wildlife managers.