Slap in the face from the mnrf

[welsh]

it seems to me that that every MNR action taken in the past few years has been aimed at reducing hunting opportunities.

Such as the spring bear hunt? The mourning dove hunt?

[wheelie]

I felt for the beagles in those areas when I read that. Going to be a lot of very bored dogs now and looking to get into mischief instead. Being an owner of two that is the first thing I thought of. CHEERS!

[FishHog]

Such as the spring bear hunt? The mourning dove hunt?

touche.
Not giving the MNR any credit on this show on the rabbit hunt, but as pointed out, there has been some good stuff as well. Just don't understand how they can mess something up so much as a simple reg change. The right way would have been to leave this year alone and implement the changes in next season's regs.

[Snowwalker]

Somebody has to make sure there's lots of rabbits to feed all the Algonquin Wolf hybrids the MNRF is trying to "protect",right?

They are not done eating all the moose and deer yet. Rabbits are too much work for too little reward till the deer are gone. Of course there are still lots of slow moving things bigger then rabbits just across the city limits. Wish they would start in TO. Everyone there loves their little local coyote, just wait till the hybreds move in and take over. Cats, Raccoons, dogs are all going on the menu.

[terrym]

This is a government that is very anti gun anti hunting. What do you expect they will do in the dieing days of its mandate?

[sawbill]

If there hadn't been constant pressure from police agencies and municipalities to bring in a spring hunt because of nuisance bears there still wouldn't be one. The decision to re-instate it had absolutely nothing to do with conservation principles or hunting opportunities.
Like so many of their recent decisions, it was all politics.

[rick_iles]

They are not done eating all the moose and deer yet. Rabbits are too much work for too little reward till the deer are gone. Of course there are still lots of slow moving things bigger then rabbits just across the city limits. Wish they would start in TO. Everyone there loves their little local coyote, just wait till the hybreds move in and take over. Cats, Raccoons, dogs are all going on the menu.

I'm pretty sure they are already here in the southwest. We've shot a few that look exactly like the video.

[trimmer21]

I'm pretty sure they are already here in the southwest. We've shot a few that look exactly like the video.

The ones in Splaker's video thread are identical to the ones we've been shooting as "brush wolves" around here for decades. That whole "algonquin wolf preserve the species" thing is just a crock. Sorry,didn't mean to derail this thread.

[welsh]

If there hadn't been constant pressure from police agencies and municipalities to bring in a spring hunt because of nuisance bears there still wouldn't be one.

True.

And the nuisance mourning doves? The cops around here were certainly frustrated with the volume of dove calls.

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[JBen]

I might suggest Sawbill, that the constant pressure to deal with the ever growing problem up North was only 40-50% of it. The other 50% was that they had finally ranged far enough South that they were a nuisance in cottage country to (or becoming one) and they were starting show up with some regularity in bed room communities. It was now "politically safe".

Even today, the same thinking is what has Ms Wynne shooting down Mayor Tory's screams for tolls on the Gardner and DVP.
The 416 is still solidly liberal, the 905 is turning against and they will probably lose a lot of seats there. Its politically safe, to disappoint Tory and the 416, in order to gain favour with the 905.

It has jack squat to do with whats right, wrong, fair, whatever......and everything to do with political expediency.