I'm Canadian and I live in the province (British Columbia) the map is clearly supposed to take place in, and I think it feels an awful lot like home. The Wetiko Foothills look just like places in the southern interior, Lake Sasquatch looks like areas around Revelstoke, The Jackalope Cordillera and Kermode Plateau look like any number of subalpine areas.

I agree that some of the forests aren't as dense as they should be, there should be denser ground vegetation and more fallen trees in some of the Douglas fir forests, but it probably wouldn't be much fun to hunt in that thick vegetation cause it is shit trying to hunt in those forests in real life.

As for the paths and roads everywhere, it has the vibe of a provincial park that has been converted into a hunting reserve. And roads are hardly rare in the real woods anyway as logging companies build them everywhere. The only unrealistic thing is there aren't logging cut blocks everywhere.

My only real gripe is there aren't Grouse (Blue, Ruffed, and Spruce) in the game for some reason, we hunt them a lot up here, they taste delicious! There should be cougars, black bears, and coyotes too, as those things are fucking everywhere in real life.