Deer Harvest Planning in the Kemptville District

[rf2]

Here's a very interesting presentation on deer harvest planning in the Kemptville district:
http://www.ofah.org/zonef/wp-content...16-185728.pptx

According to slide 11, I do my deer hunting in one of the most densely hunted areas of Eastern Ontario (WMU 64A). Lucky me

[MikePal]

I feel for ya...everyone knows east of the 416 is full of Hillbilly Hunters HaHa...

Unfortunately I can't see the slide show, my version of Power Point is to old.

[Fox]

I feel for ya...everyone knows east of the 416 is full of Hillbilly Hunters HaHa...

Unfortunately I can't see the slide show, my version of Power Point is to old.

East of the 416 is almost all WMU65, 64A is north of Kemptville to the west of Ottawa, all them Kanata folk

For anyone interested without a new version of Power Point

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...5-d55bd9b231a6

[MikePal]

East of the 416 is almost all WMU65, 64A is north of Kemptville to the west of Ottawa, all them Kanata folk

For anyone interested without a new version of Power Point

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...5-d55bd9b231a6

right you are..I had them reversed...never hunted either

Thanks for the link....I don't have an MS account, at least not one I've used in over a decade..so I will have to look and see what needs to be done. I guess it's time to replace my 2003 copy of MS Office Suite

[MikePal]

Got it working, thanks Fox...

I like the 'Hunter Success' slide (10) ...It's always been accepted that the success number was around 20%....so it's good to see that is pretty much true, as the average across the province. A couple of Hot spots but some very large lean areas.

Also like their findings on the coyote predation (slide 16) :

"Data from the Marlborough Forest Deer Study (Keith Monroe and Brent Patterson) indicated that coyotes are a much more prevalent source of mortality on adult deer than previous thought.​

Predation events not specific to winter conditions​.
Levels of observed predation on adult radio collared deer on par with highest levels recorded in N.A.​

[ninepointer]

I'd like to see Deer Advisory Councils established in other parts of Ontario, such as Central/Near North. There's a huge disconnect between management decisions and what's being observed on the ground by hunters, landowners and business operators.

[werner.reiche]

Got it working, thanks Fox...

I like the 'Hunter Success' slide (10) ...It's always been accepted that the success number was around 20%....so it's good to see that is pretty much true, as the average across the province. A couple of Hot spots but some very large lean areas.

Also like their findings on the coyote predation (slide 16) :

That's not really surprising. Eastern Ontario coyotes are highly hybridized with Algonquin wolves. They are by far the largest "coyotes" in North America.

[MikePal]

That's not really surprising. Eastern Ontario coyotes are highly hybridized with Algonquin wolves. They are by far the largest "coyotes" in North America.

Those results were from a Marlborough Forrest study and I don't think the Algonquin Wolf ranges this far south.

[Fox]

It is interesting that the data is from 2015, the number of hunters has gone down significantly in 66A since then, the deer population dropped too but I am trying to think back to when that was, it may have been 4 years ago, so these numbers could have been from that time when hunters were still out in force but the population dropped the year before.

I find it hard to believe that 86A where my dad is, has a lower hunter density than 66A, again, may just be due to the age of the study.

I wish we had this type of data updated.

[rf2]

I got this link from the OFAH Zone F website. It looks like someone from the Advisory Council presented it to them. I assume the raw data that was used in the analysis is available annually, but I don't know if the Advisory Council or the MNRF processes it annually. One would hope that they do and that they take it into consideration when they set the quotas each year, but with resource cuts, who knows.