OUT of DOORS with BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights Call Access 1.800.893.5777 F&W REGS Kudos to the MNRF for the 2019 Fishing and Hunting regulations. As advertised the layouts are new and improved with more accurate locational information, more detailed maps, improved photos and a larger font size to aid tired eyes while honing up […]
OUT of DOORS with BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights Call Access 1.800.893.5777 ABOUT FLOODS Last week I introduced Les Stanfield and his informed opinion regarding flooding and a possible solution. The creation of Conservation authorities was inspired by Hurricane Hazel. Their reactive approach was to build dams and plan to avoid similar future tragedies. But […]
LAST FLIGHT OF THE BOENG 720 Serendipity The Resident Wife (TRW) and I were in Trenton early May 9, 2012 on business and stopped in at a restaurant for breakfast. As I was about to order, a Hercules aircraft flew low overhead startling me. Almost spilled my coffee. “Say, if you’re interested, there’s a plane […]
Managing Wildlife Hunting regulations in British North America date to 1762 when General Thomas Gage, military governor of Montreal, proclaimed a closed season on “partridges” (as ruffed grouse were commonly called) at that time, and to-day for that matter, from March 15 to July 15, “during which time they were not to be hunted, taken […]
DUCK BANDING on the CONROY MARSH A Scotch mist descended as I pulled out of the driveway at 5 p.m. to join an MNR crew for some nighttime duck banding on the Conroy Marsh. On the way to meet the team at Palmer Rapids torrential rains began to dampen my enthusiasm. Over supper at Our […]
OUT of DOORS with BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights Call Access 1.800.893.5777 THE BEAR CENSUS Once upon a time I reported that in North Hastings there was one bear per square km – or words to that effect. A quick reader responded that he’d like to sign them up on his electorate list and run […]
THE CanSeq 150 INITIATIVE Essentially research scientists – geneticists – are undertaking to study 150 wildlife species in Canada. Geneticists, as it turns out, are a competitive group. When an American Academic group crowd funded an effort to genetically sequence their University beaver mascot the Canadians became inspired to take up the challenge in celebration […]
THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS – Part 2 Part 1 introduced the challenges – and possible benefits – of the summer that never was in 1816. It wasn’t so dramatic to all regions of Ontario but the North West was particularly hard hit. Of the 7 basic food resources required by the Ojibwa and Hudson […]
THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS When guest columnist Ralph Bice wrote about the summer that never was of 1826 my subconscious subtly went into overdrive. Ralph, as he commented, was relying on what he remembered reading in a newspaper. My subconscious simmered until it overflowed to my conscious thought and I contacted Environment Canada who […]
WELCOME to the OUTDOOR DIGEST that will include articles from my OUT of DOORS with BARNEY MOORHOUSE columns published in THE BANCROFT TIMES. For Reproduction Rights Call Access 1.800.893.5777. DRAW DEADLINES TO REMEMBER Moose – May 31; Elk – June 11; Antlerless deer – July 3; Controlled deer – August 31, 2018. CHANGES Some significant […]
