These conditions have prevailed on Vancouver Island for decades in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve (PRNPR) Long Beach Unit, including tourist town magnets Tofino and Ucluelet. In the early 1900s, wolves were hunted for fur. Later, through stringent government population policies, they were almost wiped out. Around 1970, they began to reclaim Vancouver Island. An estimated 350 wolves live there today. Meanwhile, the human population has grown to about 800,000, with most residents on the shoreline. Heavy logging reduced deer foraging, starving out wolves’ preferred prey, but for a quarter of a century, the wolves rarely crossed paths with humans.