Big Game Monitoring
Big game populations in each Game
Hunting Area are managed on a sustainable basis to provide opportunities for both
hunting and viewing within ecologically diverse landscapes in Manitoba.
 Understanding
population dynamics, especially population change, is essential
in optimizing the management of big game populations and requires
continual data collection by a variety of methods. The primary
data collection methods used by the Wildlife and Ecosystem Protection
Branch are:
Determining the extent of population change is best achieved
by looking at many parameters collectively rather than one component
in isolation.
In addition to monitoring to gather population dynamics data,
monitoring occurs to gather data on infection rates of diseases
such as bovine tuberculosis
and chronic wasting disease.
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