Prairie Hunters... your thoughts on the death of the PFRA

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The Federal Conservatives are now planning to dismantle the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration and hand it over to the Provinces. Known fact that the PFRA was an environmental success forged in the middle of the dust bowl of the 1930's to benefit prairie farmers, ranchers and save the soil and environment. I feel the Torries are now somewhat biting the hand that elected them. Your thoughts?
 
I feel pretty sick about it. Im afraid we will lose alot of it to oil/gas/potash mining or at least exploration. I would like to see it bought up by private farmers or ranchers rather than highest bidder energy company. At least if the ranchers got it you might still have a chance to hunt it. Its a damn shame that its being sold. In my opinion.
 
I'm put off by it too. I second those concerns of having it bought up by large companies and losing a chance to hunt some of these great pieces of hunting land. I don't own any land or have family with land so potentially losing available hunting land is a tough pill to swallow.
 
I is very important land for wildlife habitat. But who owns it is not an issue in my mind, but it IS critical that it remain uncultivated native prairie or at least grazing land. I have heard that most will be transferred to the Sask. community pasture program. if that is the case, I am in favour of the change. If it will be broken for more cultivated acres, I will oppose it with my last breath!
 
It's really a bad deal:mad:. Get ready for big ranchers or oil companies to buy and kiss the hunting good by. FAIL on the conservatives. Both Hunter and wildlife may loose big here.
 
I thought I read the former users will have a chance to lease the pastures back from the province ,that will be better than the feds running them anyway.Around here there was a lot of trouble with access and locked gates when the pasture should have been open to hunting.
 
My guess is some kind of local Assc. will "take it over". As I recall, there's 3 grazing assc. on the training area at CFB Wainwright. It's just too much land(locally) to sell and drive the price of pasture land down
 
There will have to be (hopefully) some kind of a continued lease arrangement, one that maintains the conservation easements, hunting access, etc. What is it, something like $3 billion worth of land?
 
Cancelling the PFRA Community Pasture program is a bad deal of patrons, wildlife and hunters. It's even more absurd that the program would be 100% cost recovery by raising the daily fee to patrons by $0.06/AU which is less then $10 per cow/calf in an average 150 grazing season.
 
Some concern will be justified, but it will be a matter of seeing what does become of the pasture. I have a friend that used to make deliveries to well sites and drill sites in the Estevan area. He told me that in certain places, he wasn't allowed to turn the steering axle wheels unless the truck was moving and other things along those lines.

Take a look at what some of the "hunters" are doing to wet trails and marsh lands with their quads and 4x4 trucks. Perhaps we need to sweep off our own doorstep.
 
PFRA Community Pastures are my favourite hunting grounds. I am not hopeful that things are going to be as good for me when they change hands.
 
scott_r said:
Maybe a CGN group buy :)
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***News flash***
Militant pro gun lobby group buying up federal land for terror training camps.
Armed militia groups seen patrolling former PFRA land in armoured fast attack razors and gators wearing camouflage and what appears to be bright orange gang markings.
 
Longwalker said:
I is very important land for wildlife habitat. But who owns it is not an issue in my mind, but it IS critical that it remain uncultivated native prairie or at least grazing land. I have heard that most will be transferred to the Sask. community pasture program. if that is the case, I am in favour of the change. If it will be broken for more cultivated acres, I will oppose it with my last breath!
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^Words of golden truth! Those caraganas bushes are priceless for windbreaks and keeping topsoil from blowing away.
I wish more Saskatchewan farmers would personally choose to keep some native grasses and bush free from cultivation (narrow edges and corners) for much needed nesting areas and wildlife cover. Seems that some Albertan and more Manitoba farmers 'get it' right in this regard. In nearby North Dakota it is illegal to harvest hay from the rural publically owned right of ways for this very reason.
 
Brutus said:
^Words of golden truth! Those caraganas bushes are priceless for windbreaks and keeping topsoil from blowing away. I wish more Saskatchewan farmers would personally choose to keep some native grasses and bush free from cultivation (narrow edges and corners) for much needed nesting areas and wildlife cover. Seems that some Albertan and more Manitoba farmers 'get it' right in this regard. In nearby North Dakota it is illegal to harvest hay from the rural publically owned right of ways for this very reason.
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Too bad Harper in his infinite wisdom cancelled the Prairie Shelter Belt Program also.
 
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