Deer Harvest Planning in the Kemptville District

[kokes]

This was good info from 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

[rf2]

I attended another presentation related to the Marlborough study and gave a summary here:
https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...18-Ottawa-area

Regarding the coyote depredation levels, the author of the Marlborough study said that since the study was not designed to measure that, the conclusion was more anecdotal than anything else. The depredation level by humans (hunting) was pretty much the same as by coyotes - 20% of the collared deer.

[rf2]

I'd like to see Deer Advisory Councils established in other parts of Ontario, such as Central/Near North.

I agree. I wonder if the ones that are already established could just get data from other areas and do the same analysis. If they can't do each area each year, maybe rotate areas each year so that each area is analysed periodically

[werner.reiche]

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

Algonquin wolf genes are distributed as far as Maine - 30% of Maine coyotes have Algonquin wolf DNA. The current version of the Algonquin wolf is not been a pure wolf since the 1960's. It's now a wolf/coyote hybrid - that's what started the "red wolf" bs - coyote DNA is more similar to the extinct eastern red wolf that the Algonquin gray.

Wolves collared inside Algonquin Park have been recovered east of Ottawa on the Quebec side of the river.

[MikePal]

Algonquin wolf genes are distributed as far as Maine - 30% of Maine coyotes have Algonquin wolf DNA. The current version of the Algonquin wolf is not been a pure wolf since the 1960's. It's now a wolf/coyote hybrid - that's what started the "red wolf" bs - coyote DNA is more similar to the extinct eastern red wolf that the Algonquin gray.

Wolves collared inside Algonquin Park have been recovered east of Ottawa on the Quebec side of the river.

I pulled this from a 2018 MNRF report on the Algonquin Wolf. Your right they have been found in Que but no mention of them in Eastern Ont.

There is a map on page 15 of the link below that shows where they have 'positive' hits;

In Ontario the Algonquin Wolf occurs from Killarney Provincial Park east to the Ottawa
Valley, and south to Fenelon Falls and Buckhorn
.
The core of the Algonquin Wolf population in Ontario occurs within Algonquin Provincial Park (APP), where they are the most abundant canid.

The continued presence and dominance of Algonquin Wolves in APP since at least the beginning of the 20th century, is likely due to historical abundance, strong territoriality, assortative mating and high survival due to protection from hunting and trapping.

The distribution of the Eastern (Algonquin) Wolf outside of Ontario includes southern
Quebec, north of the St. Lawrence River
.
Algonquin Wolves were once thought to have occurred across southern Ontario, southern Quebec and into the eastern United States Currently, the Algonquin Wolf is not believed to occur outside Canada.

https://apps.mnr.gov.on.ca/ebr/docs/...y-strategy.pdf