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 […]
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 […]
