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This is total "BULL"!
Why add a bow season to harvest/cripple animals when the herd is in steady decline in S. Ontario?
Why not instead close the season temporarily or allow hunting under the current system every other year or 1 in 3, etc. as the herd recovers.?
Why not prohibit the use of ATV's in active hunting in the S to reduce hunting success rates?
Why not provide an equivalent to the "deer farmer's license" to allow landowners (>100 ac) to solely hunt their own property in recognition of their contribution to providing habitat?
Why not include natives' rights in MNR's "herd recovery strategy"?
The proposed system favors large hunting groups (of 10) w/o any consideration for landowners who provide habitat on private land and take interest in managing the local herd. Small groups/individual hunters under the new system will be able to obtain a tag in S. Ontario about once every 10-20 years, provided they buy a license every year to accumulate points w/o losing them, regardless of whether or not they own property and provide habitat.
It is all about MNR "harvesting" fees from lots of "wannabe hunters" with total disregard to the animals and no consideration for folks who keep paying into the system to maintain the possibility to be allocated a tag once every 10/20 yrs ( depending on age ~1-3 tags in an average hunter's lifetime) S of the French River.
If this becomes the law I will quit moose hunting!
Submitted August 13, 2019 1:19 PM
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Improvements to moose management as part of the Moose Management Review
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