Population control of deer needs to be left up to nature, not hunters.
Culling is not an effective solution to human deer conflicts. Killing leaves room for more animals to move in.
Chasing deer with dogs is cruel.
Bow hunting should be banned.
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It appears that the ministry and other interested parties have done a good job at coming up with procedures and policies to maintain a healthy deer population. Well done.
glad to see the mnrf has taken this major problem seriously and have developed a plan to see it stopped before it effects Ontario cervides. Please keep the science and knowledge going forward. It will take everyone in the hunting communities to keep this deadly disease out of Ontario.
I agree with everything proposed in this draft. The one thing I would like to see addressed or mentioned is reduced cost of a deer license for landowners, similar to farmers, if the land owners meet a certain size of land/land use.
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The proposal is so broadly written it is difficult to make a constructive comment since any details that could be supported/criticized are not present.
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unfortunatley , I could not down load the proposal , it would not open . my concern would that the mangement needs to differ greatly from northern and central Ontario to the southern area.
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When it comes to area 43B on Manitoulin island, I believe that farmers should automatically be given Anterless tags before anyone else and also registered land owners within the WMU be drawn in the Anterless group before anyone else who does not contribute to the management or up keep if the deer
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Regulate and require permitting of under the FWCA all import, export, selling, trading, breeding, care, housing, and acquisition of all non domestic animals, regardless of whether they are native to Ontario or not.
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Please stop the Short Hills Deer Slaughter, in which deer of all ages are annually shot at with arrows. Many die days later. This cruel hunt, which is in a provincial park, requires a lot of expensive police security due to its controversy.
The traditional gun season to open on a Saturday. Its hard to get vacation days to hunt. This allows for weekend hunting
Suggest a special archery tag separate from the gun tag and only valid during the archery season, no party hunting allowed for archery with this new tag.
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Mandatory reporting will assist managers in assessing deer populations within a given WMU. This is a good step but it will be necessary to ensure that there is sufficient incentive to ensure reporting occurs.
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I think overall we need to be more sensitive to the habits of hunters and the local deer populations by management unit. By this I mean many hunters both bow hunt and rifle/ shotgun , muzzle loader hunt. In my area 69A there is only an open season for bows.
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I would like to add a few comments on the new proposed guidelines. Managing the deer populations in the Province is a difficult task given the diversity across the Province. St.
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25 July 2019
Public Input Coordinator
Species Conservation Policy Branch - Wildlife Section
300 Water Street, 5th Floor, North tower
Peterborough, ON K9J 3C7
Dear Public Input Coordinator,
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My Suggestions For ERO 019-0159:
- we should have separate tags for the regular deer hunt and for archery hunting
- a tag should be valid for a specific hunt and time period.
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The controlled hunts are not really needed anymore. I would like to see archery only areas like before in heavy populated areas. All areas south of 401 are getting more populated and it's just a matter of time until someone gets shot.
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