New Sask land access rules

What the "new" rules do is make being a road warrior a little harder. Folks that like to drive around and hunt wherever they please don't stop to ask permission. The way I understand it, the fine for trespass in SK is $2000. If you are hunting without permission now you are trespassing. A picture of your license plate can cost you $2000.

Solutions to the access/contact problem are being worked on at this very moment.

https://footprintmonitoring.com/sasklander/
 
BrotherRockeye said:
What the "new" rules do is make being a road warrior a little harder. Folks that like to drive around and hunt wherever they please don't stop to ask permission. The way I understand it, the fine for trespass in SK is $2000. If you are hunting without permission now you are trespassing. A picture of your license plate can cost you $2000.

Solutions to the access/contact problem are being worked on at this very moment.

https://footprintmonitoring.com/sasklander/
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Yep, makes it a lot harder for those older "road warriors" that have trouble getting around on foot too. Oh well, screw them this is a young persons game.
 
We’ve got a young road slash field warrior that likes to take off his plates on occasion and drive around the fields hunting including driving past the landowners when they were set up for elk on their own posted land. When reported it turns out he works for SERM some of the time so they won’t do anything.

So anyway; mister black 4 door Dodge, we know who you are, where you live on PV road, that you have had your warning, and that the second warning is more like the sky falling on you.

So anyway, be careful out there. ;)
 
Suther said:
Does nobody in Sask have a fence?

In BC trespass is legal if the land isn't posted or fenced... But most everything is posted and/or fenced...
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No it isn't.

Read the Hunting Regs.They say YOU are responsible for knowing where you are, all the time, and for having permission to hunt if it is needed.

You could do worse than to read the actual Trespass Act too. Signage has not been a requirement for some years now.

If you don't own it, you don't get to use it without asking the owner!

Our land (1500 acres more or less) is posted as a courtesy to those too effing stupid to understand. And we call the cops any time we catch someone on our property now.
I have happily called the cops on bird watchers, boaters, hunters, firewood thieves, and any other trespasser on our property. The Police are pretty good about getting on the scene pretty quickly, too.

Our property line extends out into the Fraser river, as well. And while we cannot stop folks from landing below the high water line, we sure as hell can kick their arses off the property when they set up their tents up on the dry ground! Been there, done that, too many times.
 
Dogleg said:
We’ve got a young road slash field warrior that likes to take off his plates on occasion and drive around the fields hunting including driving past the landowners when they were set up for elk on their own posted land. When reported it turns out he works for SERM some of the time so they won’t do anything.

So anyway; mister black 4 door Dodge, we know who you are, where you live on PV road, that you have had your warning, and that the second warning is more like the sky falling on you.

So anyway, be careful out there. ;)
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:cool:
 
Nice, kicking off people camped on the dry ground. In tents. Mighty neighborly, as the song goes. As the Fraser is a navigable waterway, and the crown owns to the 100 yr flood level, or even 500 yr, depending on the courts, ( high water line) you might want to watch your attitude when booting canoeers of. Eventually one of them will know the law... you may loose a good chunk of your bottom land. Mighty neighborly...
 
I keep thinking the left coast is nice, then this happens... “I have happily called the cops on bird watchers, boaters, hunters, firewood thieves, and any other trespasser on our property.”
I am glad I live in Saskatchewan, land of friendly farmers.
 
Peace River said:
Nice, kicking off people camped on the dry ground. In tents. Mighty neighborly, as the song goes. As the Fraser is a navigable waterway, and the crown owns to the 100 yr flood level, or even 500 yr, depending on the courts, ( high water line) you might want to watch your attitude when booting canoeers of. Eventually one of them will know the law... you may loose a good chunk of your bottom land. Mighty neighborly...
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Were not canoers. A-holes weekending on the Fraser in a Jet boat. 4 dudes from Kelowna, that thought they had every right to park their tents anywhere they pleased. Insisted both that they were on Crown land, AND that they had every right to go anywhere within 60 or 90 feet of the high water line. Cops took care of that.
In addition to not having permission, they were in place when a group that actually DID have permission, went by, and that group ended up camping out on Crown Land down river. So these a-holes changed someone else's weekend too.
Last time the water was high enough to reach where they were, there was a glacier involved.

##### THEM!

Not only were they trespassing, and had their tents set up, they had a BBQ pavilion with the BBQ going.

By the time I was done, the one dude was pretty much foaming at the mouth, and tried to throw his pack of hot dogs at me. Tried. The dude chucked like a chick. Not the physical fitness, plays sports chick, the fat one with a bingo dauber as her only workout equipment.

Nice is for people that are not Trespassing. The rest get treated like the low level morons they are.

Fact check about what the Crown owns. Our property lines extend IN to the river. We own it, pay the taxes on it, and have rights attached with it. Simply put, it was how things were done when these lots were surveyed, prior to BC joining confederation.

We have had fences cut, Gates dismantled, irrigation lines run over, animals shot and left, and firewood stolen. We have also had thieves park stolen trucks in the back of our property. I have been called on several occasions to deal with reports of open flames, by the Kamloops Fire Center, as people had a fire on the beach when there was a No Burn order in effect.

Screw 'em. It's the cops, as fast as they can get there, now.
 
Peace River said:
I keep thinking the left coast is nice, then this happens... “I have happily called the cops on bird watchers, boaters, hunters, firewood thieves, and any other trespasser on our property.”
I am glad I live in Saskatchewan, land of friendly farmers.
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So, that is to say, you know as little about BC Law as the a-holes that set up camp on our property!

Ran in to LOTS of unfriendly Farmers. I spent 8 years of my life hunting around Moose Jaw. One of the locals was pretty well known, for calling out the fish cops when there were hunters on his property, and for refusing anyone permission, right up until he was informed that the end of his Crop Damage payments was nigh!
That came about by refusing access to one of the guys that sat on the Damage Board/Crew/whatever they were called.

The unfriendly ones were treated with the same respect anyone deserves if they are being asked for something and they decline. It's their right to say no if they wish, as a land owner.

And lots of those had reasons very similar to my own. They had been screwed too many times, and were done with it.

You own any land? Be happy to find a group of total strangers, that decided your lawn was a great place to have a party for the long weekend?
 
trevj said:
So, that is to say, you know as little about BC Law as the a-holes that set up camp on our property!

Ran in to LOTS of unfriendly Farmers. I spent 8 years of my life hunting around Moose Jaw. One of the locals was pretty well known, for calling out the fish cops when there were hunters on his property, and for refusing anyone permission, right up until he was informed that the end of his Crop Damage payments was nigh!
That came about by refusing access to one of the guys that sat on the Damage Board/Crew/whatever they were called.

The unfriendly ones were treated with the same respect anyone deserves if they are being asked for something and they decline. It's their right to say no if they wish, as a land owner.

And lots of those had reasons very similar to my own. They had been screwed too many times, and were done with it.

You own any land? Be happy to find a group of total strangers, that decided your lawn was a great place to have a party for the long weekend?
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Was just reading the Ab. BG regs last night and noticed " it is now incumbent on land owners who make a damage claim allow hunters access to the land"...I think it predominantly informs landowners that elk pissing on their bales is "handle able".
 
trevj said:
So, that is to say, you know as little about BC Law as the a-holes that set up camp on our property!

Ran in to LOTS of unfriendly Farmers. I spent 8 years of my life hunting around Moose Jaw. One of the locals was pretty well known, for calling out the fish cops when there were hunters on his property, and for refusing anyone permission, right up until he was informed that the end of his Crop Damage payments was nigh!
That came about by refusing access to one of the guys that sat on the Damage Board/Crew/whatever they were called.

The unfriendly ones were treated with the same respect anyone deserves if they are being asked for something and they decline. It's their right to say no if they wish, as a land owner.

And lots of those had reasons very similar to my own. They had been screwed too many times, and were done with it.

You own any land? Be happy to find a group of total strangers, that decided your lawn was a great place to have a party for the long weekend?
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There has never been a requirement to allow hunters in order to be paid for crop damage in Saskatchewan.

Stop making stuff up.
 
Got an acquaintance who has a BIG ranch right on the AB/ SK border...down in the Cypress hills.
Lots here won't like this statement of his.
" I'd rather have a good poacher than an average hunter any day.
A neighbor or someone who is taking one to eat? Can't even tell anyone was there...'cept for the Coyoyes and Magpies hanging out at that one patch of bushes.
No truck tracks, no trash, no gates left open, no driving 'all over Christ' to get down into the bottom to get to the deer ( can't dare walk in and drag it out...the horror!)
Hunters are cruising the top of the coulees (spotting), sitting down on the tailgate having a dart and a Sandwich...wonder where the butt and wrapper go?
They just leave the gate down, they are coming back this way...no worries...WTF?"
Scant respect...little wonder it's hard to get permission.
If we used the same care with our 'Footprint's' that a subsistence poacher would, we'd be better off. No-one should even know you were there. If you can't accomplish that...you might be a part of the problem
Flameproof suit on, check!
 
skhunter said:
There has never been a requirement to allow hunters in order to be paid for crop damage in Saskatchewan.

Stop making stuff up.
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I was there. Were you?

The land owner systematically refused hunters access and claimed wildlife damage to his crops.

He got told outright that if he did not allow hunters on to deal with the game, he was done with getting paid out for wildlife damage.

South and East of the Sukanen Ship Museum, South of Moose Jaw.

No need to make things up.
 
If you go to the wildlife crop damage program, the very first requirement for producers to qualify is that they allow reasonable access to hunters on that specific land.
 
saskbooknut said:
If you go to the wildlife crop damage program, the very first requirement for producers to qualify is that they allow reasonable access to hunters on that specific land.
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I know many farmers who post their land and have never been refused compensation. I have never been asked if I allow hunting when making a claim.

The guidelines also say they "MAY" refuse payment not payment "WILL" be refused if hunting is not allowed.
 
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