Spring bear hunt
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:00 pm
Well it looks like the provincial government has finally found an excuse they can use without admitting that closing the hunt was a big mistake and even worse a HUGE waste of money on their totally ineffective Bear Wise program.Imagine if all those funds had gone into stocking and other mnr programs. At the same time losing a large amount of local and non resident money from the economy, which mostly went to Quebec. Now it's about safety, due to high human/bear conflicts, especially up north. Well duhhhhhh! They knew that was happening after year two of closing the spring hunt, but it's now been 15 years now.
There is going to be a 2 year pilot program for a spring hunt in close to 50 municipalities up north who have already agreed to participate. At least the door is open a crack now and will hopefully leads to further opportunities for the rest of the province.
Here's a link to the Environmental Registry Notice. There is a 30 day public comment link on the right of the page that is quite important for all hunters to use, even fishermen too for that matter will help out, as it's not that often we get a chance to actually have some influence on the outcome, which actually seems to be tilting in our favor. Face it, they wouldn't even start this project if they didn't plan on continuing with it. We need to help the process by inputting positive comments agreeing with it and also commenting that it would be good to expand the hunt province wide. There are also some other very good links to check out and save on this page.
http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-Extern ... anguage=en
It seems even the antis from overseas are commenting on the EBR, so all the more reason for all outdoorsmen to respond to that threat.
Here's the thread I picked this up from. http://www.oodmag.com/community/showthr ... the-Anti-s!
Cheers
There is going to be a 2 year pilot program for a spring hunt in close to 50 municipalities up north who have already agreed to participate. At least the door is open a crack now and will hopefully leads to further opportunities for the rest of the province.
Here's a link to the Environmental Registry Notice. There is a 30 day public comment link on the right of the page that is quite important for all hunters to use, even fishermen too for that matter will help out, as it's not that often we get a chance to actually have some influence on the outcome, which actually seems to be tilting in our favor. Face it, they wouldn't even start this project if they didn't plan on continuing with it. We need to help the process by inputting positive comments agreeing with it and also commenting that it would be good to expand the hunt province wide. There are also some other very good links to check out and save on this page.
http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-Extern ... anguage=en
It seems even the antis from overseas are commenting on the EBR, so all the more reason for all outdoorsmen to respond to that threat.
Here's the thread I picked this up from. http://www.oodmag.com/community/showthr ... the-Anti-s!
Cheers