Distress Call - What's happening to our moose? OOD Hunting Annual

How about the MNR closing the non resident hunt.
No more tags for non residents.
Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by gunter

How about the MNR closing the non resident hunt.
No more tags for non residents.
Just a thought.

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It wouldn't make any appreciable difference because the non-resident harvest is merely a drop-in-the-bucket compared to the rest of us. The entire south of Ontario below the French-Mattawa is already closed to non-resident Moose hunting and has been for decades..

The non-resident harvest is very small in most WMUs. Someone suggested closing down Aboriginal moose hunting for a period to see the population rebound, and yet no one has suggested closing down licensed hunting. A short-term closure of all moose hunting by all parties would likely result in an increase in moose populations, at least until skewed sex ratios became an issue.

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Originally Posted by werner.reiche

Moose don't really have 'calving grounds'...they calve where they live all year. I think you're confusing migrating caribou issues with moose issues - two totally different sets of problems.

..Unless you consider elimination of bears and wolves from calving grounds the issue.

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Perhaps "calving ground" not the best term. My understanding is a cow moose will not put up with very much human intrusion into a preferred calving area before abandoning it for future years. I'm sure they abandon those sites if they're bothered repeatedly by predators at them as well.

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Originally Posted by outdoorlife

Perhaps "calving ground" not the best term. My understanding is a cow moose will not put up with very much human intrusion into a preferred calving area before abandoning it for future years.

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Never heard that theory before and it doesn't make much sense, given that moose don't have a 'preferred calving area'. They calve where they live. What you seem to be saying is that human intrusion into moose range will cause moose to abandon the area, which we know to be false.

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Originally Posted by wolfhunter

I think its a combination of ALL the above. Native hunters, Crossbows, deer pushed into area, increase of predators, city expansion. There are probably a few more as well, like restricting tags so guide outfits can use them, etc,etc,etc......

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Hey, didn't you used to be HOWA 7mm??

I was lots of things

Aren't we all:)

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

It wouldn't make any appreciable difference because the non-resident harvest is merely a drop-in-the-bucket compared to the rest of us. The entire south of Ontario below the French-Mattawa is already closed to non-resident Moose hunting and has been for decades..

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We were up in Gerelton 3 years ego for a archery moose hunt.
four of us from Ontario
All the rest of the archery hunters were from the states six in total.
I had a talk with them they come up every year easy to get tags they pay for them.
And yes they had 2 moose in the cooler.

How about we all don't buy a tag next year that will wake up the MNR