I can not begin to…

I can not begin to understand the continual need for changes with in our ministry without scientific proof. We can not possibly begin to make changes when it comes to numbers of moose tags allocated to specific areas without understanding the actual harvest taking place. We will not have these numbers until the end of 2019 and they will not be processed until 2020 maybe even later.

If the ministry truly wants to give opportunities for bull moose to finish the first and most fertile mating process then allocating more gun tags away from gun seasons to give to archery only season makes absolutely no sense. Moose archery only seasons takes complete advantage of the fact that bull moose are in the middle of the rut . Moose archery season should be shutdown completely. Generally bow hunters target bull moose during that season when it is easier to call them in, that being said then why not allow a person one tag for the entire season, archery and gun. Same number of animals will be harvested. The successful applicant could harvest an adult moose with a bow during archery only season if unsuccessful then with an approved firearm during the second season for the same adult moose.
The allocation of calf tags is a very slippery slope. If we begin that process now then people up North who depend on these animals for the food for the winter such as myself and my family will have no opportunity to go out our door and harvest an animal for the winter. Now I understand not everybody relies on these animals for food but some of us do and I am a licensed Hunter, have been for 20 years. Yes I've seen the population grow yes I've seen the population decline but I do know that the ministry continues to put out numbers that show the moose are in better shape than back before the group hunting requirements began.
Ministry of Natural Resources and the big game committee meetings that occurred this past year across Ontario is a perfectly good example of how far they are out of touch with common hunter approx 2500 people show up out of 85,000 plus moose hunters in Ontario. Most didn't even come out to the meeting because they weren't aware of them. Now the big game committee believes that they can help make changes, this big game committee isn't an elected group of officials representing the people, this is a group of bullies who have their own self interest at heart be it financial or social. Ministry of natural resources should be very careful when taking advice from this big game committee it does not appear that they have the support of the general hunting population. Ministry of Natural Resources needs to make a larger effort in making new information available to the hunter's of Ontario this EBR is just a perfectly good example, the numbers that you receive will not be impressive I'm sure. It is not the lack of caring , it is still due to the lack of awareness. Truly the EBRs don't work, paper copies is still the only way of contacting the moose hunting community reliably.

A new points system is even more confusing then the draw system. There is nothing wrong with the draw system, only something wrong with a mathematics that the ministry of natural resources used to make their tag quotes. There are many different methods of using the current draw system make it viable. Creating a 2 person calf tag harvest mandatory would reduce the number of moose calves that could be harvested by half, even though very few calves get harvested in Ontario due to the difficulty of harvesting calves not population issues. This would be similar to a process that was used prior to the group requirements .

There is definitely a need for another opportunity for the public to listen to the concerns of the big game committee and the ministry natural resources.