Jack rabbits/European hare

[Gilroy]

This article is from 2005......not many Jacks around anymore.

No Sir

That article is from the 16th June 2017.

In the comments below that article is one that reads "I really enjoy hunting jacks there are plenty in the chatham kent area" Dated 28th December 2021.

[Frank16]

Might seem like an outlandish proposition on my behalf but maybe we should all have though of some type of CONSERVATION program to help this species recover years ago when they were going rapidly downhill. Like the Moose population nobody seemed to take much notice of the declined until there were no more to hunt.

Seems a terrible shame that with the OFAH, MNR, technology, and all the science we have at our disposal were are in this position.

Its really pretty amazing that from a healthy population back in the 1970,s where most of us could spot these hares just north of the GTA to today where they are almost all gone.

MNR don't care because the Jack rabbit is an invasive species. The focus is on the money makers, deer, turkey, moose, waterfowl.
Hunting in southern Ontario is the absolute s and I blame the MNR and OFAH for not stepping in to do something to help preserve habitat for small game.

[Gilroy]

MNR don't care because the Jack rabbit is an invasive species. The focus is on the money makers, deer, turkey, moose, waterfowl.
Hunting in southern Ontario is the absolute s and I blame the MNR and OFAH for not stepping in to do something to help preserve habitat for small game.

Your right Frank they probably do not care about the Jacks as they do a lot of damage to fruit trees and what have you. But over the years they have also provided thousands of hours of enjoyment, camaraderie for the hunting community, you would hope that would count for something.

The money makers might not last that well, many hunters are simply not buying moose licenses any more as they consider it a waste of money.

Assisting and enhancing wildlife for hunting went out the window years ago, no more Pheasant rearing, no more winder feeding for deer.

We would have to go back all the way to Conservative Premier John ROBARTS 1961 to 1971 to find an example of a hunter and a person who looked after our interests in this Province.

[huntervinni]

No Sir

That article is from the 16th June 2017.

In the comments below that article is one that reads "I really enjoy hunting jacks there are plenty in the chatham kent area" Dated 28th December 2021.

It clearly states at the end of the article that it was written May 9, 2005. Comments have always been open so that is why you have some current comments but even 2021 is 4 years old almost.

Regardless there are a few around but no where near the numbers of 2005 which was 20 years ago.