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WMU 19 and 21A
Topic Started: Sep 22 2011, 09:51 AM (2,431 Views)
bowhunt4life
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So, there will be quite a party up north this fall.

MNR has issued hundreds of extra moose tags for WMUs 19 and 21A to help eradicate moose and next step is to introduce woodland caribou? :crazy:

Any truth to this rumour?
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That is interesting. Eradicating moose out of those units with extra hunting tags is impossible. What it does do is provide the MNR with extra cash at the expense of a quality hunting experience. Some of the popular logging roads will sure be busy. There will still be large areas that are not going to get hunted. Look at google earth and see massive blocks of land that have no cutting activity. Some major rivers can get you into some virgin territory. There are some lesser known road systems as well. Very rugged area.

I wonder what they will do with the woodland caribou herd on the slate islands and their boom and bust life cycle. Here are a couple of interesting reads about the unique and picturesque islands:

http://ottawa-rasc.ca/wiki/index.php?title...es-SlateIslands

http://www.backpacker.com/reindeer_games_t...tinations/12718
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I sure hope not, just what we need more of something we can't hunt. They can't manage what we already have yet want to do something like this. Reminds of years ago when they use to poison lakes to stock them...lol

Take a kid hunting...you'll need someone to drag it when you get older! They are our future.
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its not true
ministry has no money to do that anyway
its just talk
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I can't speak for unit 19 as I haven't seen the numbers, but in 21A the cow-bull ratio is out of whack. The MNR has issued more cow tags this year in order to bring the ratio back in line to what it should be. I guess too many bulls have been harvesed in the past.

The caribou issue is very ambitious and complicated topic for discussion. Basically, the MNR is writing a recovery plan as well as protecting key habitat. The strategy doesn't affect all of northern ontario, but where it does, there will be impacts on moose.
Read more about it here:
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Speci...age/249504.html

Sam
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i noticed that too sam, was weird to me but i guess it makes sense a little bit.

i have no prblem introducing caribou but do it north of the CN railway where no one lives that way there wont be too much human interaction
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crisop
Sep 23 2011, 07:42 AM
i noticed that too sam, was weird to me but i guess it makes sense a little bit.

i have no prblem introducing caribou but do it north of the CN railway where no one lives that way there wont be too much human interaction

It seems that a lot of people like caribou but, few people are ready to accept changes on the landscape to give them a chance to increase their numbers.

I share your sentiments about protecting them north of the CN tracks, but development is starting to happen in that area e.g. Ring of Fire, logging, etc. so I'm not holding out much hope for them. Even the northern First Nation communities are looking for economic development.

There's a small herd of caribou on Lake Nipigon and a lot of locals would rather see them wiped out for the sake of development. I'm not saying one side of the argument is more right than the other, but someone has to make a hard decision.

Sam
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That's too bad.. I have hunted this area... Would like to see a caribo... :goodpost:
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I've seen quite a few caribou in that area. There was a herd in 19 that I would see and a heard in 17 :coffee:

IMO the climates is getting warmer and the herds are stressed more by the hotter temps than people. I was told once that heat waves cause dramitic increases in moose mortality. Just a waste of money and resources....again.
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