Elk in Iron Bridge Ontario?!?

[maple_leaf_eh]

Unless you are completely "in the know", it's hard to understand where ok were released....... I have some at my camp in the tweed area and the 417 in Ottawa got shut down one day last year when one was spotted along the highway.......

A dandy 5x5 bull sauntered into Ottawa a decade or so ago. He was photographed in the paper lying on a grassy slope near the OCTranspo transitway on its way into the west side of Lebreton Flats. The news broke that buses were being rerouted and the police were monitoring. By mid morning things were back to normal after the elk was shot.

I don't know, but I strongly suspect, there was fresh game at the native friendship centre that night. Having a status indigenous hunt in the city is a whole level of administration removed from letting Joe Blow Six Pack shoot it, or getting someone from the MNR to accept the paperwork to justify the gas and ammunition costs.

 

[PS_LeverGuy]

There are three herds controlled groups in Ontario, the only area viable so far has remained Bancroft. The Burwash herd remains protected and I have heard rumours of poachers taking the odd one someone with knowledge of the MNRF please confirm.

The third was released around the Bruce mines east Algoma area but they have scattered of the last few years and some have travelled east towards iron bridge and the odd one towards blind river. This area again remains protected, I for one am eager to hear out for an elk hunt, I prefer the taste of elk over moose and venison any day

 

[Arclight]

There are three herds controlled groups in Ontario, the only area viable so far has remained Bancroft. The Burwash herd remains protected and I have heard rumours of poachers taking the odd one someone with knowledge of the MNRF please confirm.

The third was released around the Bruce mines east Algoma area but they have scattered of the last few years and some have travelled east towards iron bridge and the odd one towards blind river. This area again remains protected, I for one am eager to hear out for an elk hunt, I prefer the taste of elk over moose and venison any day

I know of the odd poaching incident in Burwash in the 90s. Sometimes we would come across gut piles and hides in the range area.

 

[Highwind]

10 years ago while moose hunting I heard a bull call out in the Elliot Lake area... My buddy asked me what that was, and i said it's an Elk. So they have moved from Bruce Mines and I recently heard that some are near Sault Ste Marie. Also with the Bancroft area some have moved eastwards and are seen occasionally. I think it was a good idea that there has been some attempts to bring Elk back to Ontario. They roamed in Ontario till the turn of the 1900 century or so. I thought that they may have been placed in Kenora but no reports on that.

 

[freddyfour]

I'll tell ya, was a beautiful sight seeing them lying in a hay field just at sunrise as the fog was lifting. Something you would more typically see out west, wish I had had my camera unpacked.