THE RECOSKIE ELK Chris Recoskie, the seal holder plus Garry Voldock and Eric Visneskie are all from Round Lake. Sly Recoskie, the shooter, hails from Pembroke. They have been hunting moose and deer for many seasons – perhaps 25 years. Staying at Round Lake they would waken at 4:00 a.m. for their commute for the […]
HYDRO POLES AT RISK? When Alan Leedy returned from his moose hunt he asked if I would be interested in doing a story about marauding bears attacking hydro poles. He had noticed the chewed poles, taken some photos and asked a local resident who told him that Hydro had investigated and yes, bears were the […]
THE ELK HUNT Rich Boulanger and his buddies Pat Law, Derrick Martin and Kyle Best, all from Chalk River, were among the few to take a cow elk to a check station. One group from Stoney Creek called me to say that they had successfully shot a cow elk hunting Elson Ruddy’s farm while staying […]
HORNE’S LONG DISTANCE ELK Robin Horne had a bull tag and he was hunting solo in Wildlife Management Unit 61, Harvest Area 6 in the Lingham Lake vicinity. Horne, from Brighton, has been hunting since he was 11. First it was “bird hunting and at 15 he began to hunt moose.” He stayed in Tweed […]
A YOUNG BULL I first met Perry Sararas, Todd and Justin Young at Dave Park’s farm during the opening day of the elk hunt. Terry Young was also a member but had just gone through an untimely knee operation and so was out of action – at least temporarily. “When they called and said they […]
2011 NEW MINISTER Michael Gravelle, Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP, is the new Minister of Natural Resources. Readers may recall that Gravelle was Minister of Northern Development and Mines in 2009 when Forestry was moved from natural resources to his ministry. Not since Lyn McLeod has there been an MNR minister from Thunder Bay. If Gravelle […]
2011 HUNT CAMP SAFETY A few years ago area Conservation Officers and fire departments joined forces and handed out new batteries for smoke alarms and CO detectors at hunt camps as the C.O.s carried out their patrols. With hunting seasons upon us replacing old batteries should be at the top of the “to do” list. […]
2011 ATLANTIC SALMON Efforts to bring back the Atlantic salmon to Lake Ontario as a wild, self-sustaining species have been encouraged by the discovery of 3 adults more than 70 km upstream from lake Ontario in the Credit River. It seems the fish may have been stocked as juveniles in 2008/09 and would have passed […]
