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The concept of a formal wildlife management strategy sounds wonderful but the notion of broader landscape zones and longer goals or monitoring has me very concerned. Some wildlife species are very susceptible to drastic population changes such as bad winters, high levels of ticks, disease etc and moving to longer monitoring periods sounds like it will make it harder to respond promptly when fluctuations happen.
For example, several years ago southern Ontario experienced back to back harsh winters with significant die-offs of deer and turkey in areas. Additional deer seals were still available in abundance and it took two to three years for the allocations to drop in response. This slow response caused further damage and set back the recovery period even more.
We need more timely and detailed monitoring, more timely and detailed decision making not less. It seems like much of this proposal is designed to reduce administrative costs and labour at the expense of sound management decisions. The cost to hunters keeps rising while the product that hunters are "buying" is deteriorating. This is a broken system.
Many other provinces/states have more timely models of wildlife management, perhaps something could be learned from them.
Sincerely,
Paul
[Original Comment ID: 196628]
Submitted February 9, 2018 2:33 PM
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Building a wildlife management strategy for Ontario: discussion paper
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