Moose population declining.

[seadog]

no mention of bears and what they take

[bdog]

I have a native cousin that has told me stories what his friends do and it is unreal, slaughtering them and deer to sell and make money, same with walleye and lakers.
Fricken joke.
If they shot em on foot and with recurve bows have at it, not round em up in the snow on sleds and have at them with rifles, or shoot outta truck windows

Just another misinformed post...

[bdog]

toddc, Matt86, my family has been fighting terrorism since 1492, but thats a completely different subject, one that you cannot begin to understand, now bck to the moose problem, ticks, brain worm in white tail,and the white tail are moving farther north, no spring bear hunt, no body shooting wolves on sight now because a tag is needed ,and mismanagement by the powers/gov/mnr, has a lot more to do with the decline in OUR moose population.... than the peoples you are pointing your finger at...

[twoducks]

easy , no special rights , like the rest of us canadians . equality for all taxpayers.

[alexandra360]

I just wish the MNR would take measures to eradicate ticks. They have done a fairly good job against rabies, they should do the same for ticks. I wonder how we can get this done?

[dutchhunter]

I have seen ticks in areas we never even heard of then in the past .sure thy are on the moose deer and even turkeys. Some areas are a lot worse than others. As far as unregulated harvest some folks just can't expect that it happens. Head in the sand ...We need to get all hunter's on the same page .and stop shooting calfs .Dutch

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

I have seen ticks in areas we never even heard of then in the past .sure thy are on the moose deer and even turkeys. Some areas are a lot worse than others. As far as unregulated harvest some folks just can't expect that it happens. Head in the sand ...We need to get all hunter's on the same page .and stop shooting calfs .Dutch

Hey there is an idea. While we are @ it how about no Cow's either if you really want to protect what is left & help the herd to re-build. But that would have to be for all Canadians even the ones that don't need to buy a hunting license & adhere to the common sense game laws.

[mooboy76]

I just wish the MNR would take measures to eradicate ticks. They have done a fairly good job against rabies, they should do the same for ticks. I wonder how we can get this done?

Paintball guns with Ivermectin filled pellets?

[standup]

Thats what the MNR blamed the sudden near wipeout of moose in Algonquin on. It was just funny it coincided with the first two years the natives were allowed to hunt in the park.

Amazing how the ticks left the guts in such neat piles huh

[mooboy76]

I just wish the MNR would take measures to eradicate ticks. They have done a fairly good job against rabies, they should do the same for ticks. I wonder how we can get this done?

A more serious reply would be that it is a complex issue that has been on biologists radar for over 20 years. Warmer, shorter winters mean more ticks survive, wet summers do too.

So, we can hope for long cold winters with lots of snowfall, and dry Augusts & autumns. Apparently, early spring prescribed burns can help knock down endemic numbers too.

Deer are unaffected by these ticks but carry them, so they would act as sources to reinfest areas even if you could wipe them all out of a region - which is unlikely. For some reason, deer get infested with a handful of these ticks, but the moose can end up with thousands; like the liver fluke situation - fine for deer, but nasty for moose.

Drones may be one of the moosies best friends. It should be easier and a lot less expensive to start doing aerial surveys with those, which will hopefully translate into more area surveyed on an annual basis. At least we would have a clearer picture of what we have?