There should be a higher…

There should be a higher priority on the protection (and maintenance) of current healthy caribou populations. This seems to be focusing on areas that currently don't support healthy herds of caribou and would be constantly impacted by human populations and their activities.

More research/funding needs to be put in place on the monitoring and tracking of animals (if any) that may use the areas to further understand how we can help these populations. I have not seen any data or research that really proves the current use of "between the continuous range and Lake Superior" which should be on hand in this discussion. Rushing into a management strategy without background information is ill advised and may do more harm to people then it will help the caribou.

Any potential management decisions that would be brought into place would also impact those people who live and depend on the natural resource based industries for a living in those same coastal and "Discontinuous" range, i.e. forestry. Take into consideration these economic (and potentially social) impacts to these communities while making policy. Talk and listen to industry before you make decisions so that the impacts on them is known and can be mitigated.

Any management approach and decisions will not remove highways or private land users that are also impacting any animals that may be in the area. DO research, find the uses, then make policy decisions. Use data or research that really proves the current use of "between the continuous range and Lake Superior" and not just historical data that is no longer accurate on a landscape that has completely changed from that time.

The survey that is posted appears to be biased with leading questions that lead to a foregone outcome. Of course we would not want to "do nothing" and we would like to to maintain caribou populations where possible.