ONTARIO’S ELK HUNT On Tuesday, November 2, 1970, at 10 a.m. Richard Sloat shot one of the last recorded legally hunted elk in Ontario near the former Burwash medium-security prison. Fascinating film records the various animals housed at Burwash such as bison and elk. That is an interesting story on its own. Sloat had the […]
ELK HUNT 2011 September 19-25. At Bancroft F&G Protective Ass’n until Monday 26. DAY 1 – September 19 While travelling from Hartsmere to Carlow in search of elk & hunters I missed the first 2 elk to arrive at the voluntary check in station at the Bancroft F&G Protective Ass’n. The first 70? Elk arrived […]
Slow and Steady 2010 The responses to the elk management proposal posted on the EBR (Environmental Bill of Rights) are in and the Ministry of Natural Resources is moving ahead in consultations with stakeholders that include, among many, aboriginals, farmers, hunters and outdoor folk of varied backgrounds. A recent meeting in Bancroft to discuss details […]
TROUBLE in PARADISE? Ever since they set foot on North Hastings territory the wild animals from Elk Island have been full of surprises. Readers may recall that the first elk down the unloading ramp headed for the enclosing fence and like the cow that jumped over the moon made its unanticipated exit from captivity and […]
The Last Elk hunt Or, perhaps more correctly, the last documented legal elk hunt in Ontario. In fact a core group of elk in the Nipissing-French River area, numbering between 50-60 animals in 1996, survived the Ontario government’s purge of the 20th century due to an unfounded concern that they were infecting domestic cattle with […]
Dave Parks and the Elk The first elk of the year arrived at Dave and Penny Parks’ “Parksview Farms” at 1:15 p.m. on June 30, 2008. The Carlow-Mayo Township farmer was less than pleased for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) provided no compensation for elk damage and the Ministry of Natural […]
Quinte Elk Restoration Wrap The Quinte Elk Restoration Committee (QERC) is winding down operations. On May 2, 2014, they hosted their last fund raising dinner at the Belleville Fish & Game Club. Their first Conservation Banquet and Auction, as the Quinte and District Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF), was held in April […]
Elk Conservation Dinner On May 4, 2007 the Quinte Elk Restoration Committee hosted its 7th annual conservation dinner and auction at the Belleville Fish & Game Club. When the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) decided to leave Canada two years ago this committee of volunteers decided that they would try to make a go of […]
Bancroft – RETURN OF THE ELK Time traveller literature has recorded the presence of earthly elk for some 40,000 years. Apparently, there weren’t a lot of elk roaming North America during the glacial age. However, as the glaciers slurped up water from the oceans a land bridge emerged joining Siberia to Alaska. Theory has it […]
ALBERT BOTHA – PHOTOGRAPHER, PRODUCER, SHEPHERD Although Spring had already officially, by the calendar, come to town Mother Nature had evidently missed the memo and dumped more snow in the neighborhood. However, by March 24 when I visited Albert Botha at his Grafton area Shropshirehills sheep farm blue skies and sunshine clearly provided us with […]
