hunters in Yukon need your support no more. happy ending for this time..

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Hello guys,

there is a discussion now about changing the regulations and prohibiting hunting spring grizzly from the road in the south Yukon.

of course this is a just a beginning and we dont what is the final goal.

there is a big talk about that in town and of course the hunters want to choose what they want to hunt and when and how of course.

yfwmb.ca/2014/10/yukon-fish-and-wildlife-management-board-roadside-bear-proposed-regulation-change

im not a road hunter myself but that doesnt mean im against especially when we all know how difficult it for the access is and to remember that poor lady killed by the grizzly this last month was on the road system that they re thinking for the closure.

less bears hunted means more conflicts


please take the time to review the data.

yfwmb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Roadside-Bear-Background-Information.pdf

then give your voice.

surveymonkey.com/s/yfwmb2014

thank you so much.

Phil
 
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Done.

I just finished (five mintes ago) looking for somewhere to comment on the Environment Yukon site, but they have nothing.

I'm so tired of this crap. A couple of loudmout odiots who happen to have the minster's ear....
 
Northman999 said:
Done.

I just finished (five mintes ago) looking for somewhere to comment on the Environment Yukon site, but they have nothing.

I'm so tired of this crap. A couple of loudmout odiots who happen to have the minster's ear....
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There was a comment section at the end of the survey.

I was a bit torn about this one. I have no problem with bear hunting, but I also have no problem with no hunting of them within 30m of a highway's center-line. Actually, driving down a highway and shooting a grizzly from the highway...is that really hunting?

*flame suit on*
 
Easy
If a new rule restricts certain area, then the government should open other areas to make it up. We cannot accept a pure restriction. Evan I don't like hunting around highway, but if it has been done for decades, then taking this away should be followed by more liberal hunting rules in other areas. It is called rule neutrality
 
I do not support changes to the regs. It affects a great portion of the total Yukon road system. Then what's next after the foot in the door???.
 
I don't know if opinions from non-residents carry much weight, but I did my part. The issue isn't so much one of hunting along roadways, which I generally oppose, the issue is the unimpeded human habituation of grizzlies. Given the volume of summer traffic in the Southern Yukon, you know those bears are being fed, and are associating people and vehicles with food. We're pretty bear savvy around here, and know that a fed bear is a dead bear, and we know that bear-human conflicts should carry more weight than imaginary hunter-bear watcher conflicts. When there is a bear human conflict, chances are it will be a Yukon resident who is endangered, not the knot-head who fed the bear in the first place. Perhaps a public education campaign with signs placed along the highway carrying the slogan, "A fed bear is a dead bear!" would have more positive results, particularly when reinforced by the successful road hunter.
 
nof60 said:
Did anyone else notice that they got rid of the hunter host option for Grizzlies as well? I think we all know where this is heading. Don't shoot the poor cute cuddly little carnivores.
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I heard that last year, but apparently the trade-off is for hunter-host hunts for bison. I'm a little disappointed by that, but only a little if I can hunt bison.
 
Boomer said:
I heard that last year, but apparently the trade-off is for hunter-host hunts for bison. I'm a little disappointed by that, but only a little if I can hunt bison.
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Mike,

yes this is the way they sold it but no bison opens for non resident unless you are going to see an outfitter so the trade was not good.

the grizzlys hunt for non resident on a special guiding was removed because of outfitters ....

i wish you can come for bison we need hands lol ...

Phil
 
1899 said:
There was a comment section at the end of the survey.

I was a bit torn about this one. I have no problem with bear hunting, but I also have no problem with no hunting of them within 30m of a highway's center-line. Actually, driving down a highway and shooting a grizzly from the highway...is that really hunting?

*flame suit on*
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Hopefully you don't feel you need your flame suit...

Road hunting is fairly common, particularly with First Nations people, who are often much more practical and pragmatic than other hunters when it comes to filling the freezer, and not buying into all this "fair chase" garbage that is often brought up in regards to road hunting. I'm not against "fair chase", except when some people try to force it on everyone.

I can't remember the last time I personally road hunted, but I do specifically remember my dad shooting a moose on the way to bringing us to school as a kid, and it wasn't really anything worth mentioning at the time. People usually consider game standing in the ditch to be more of a "gift" than anything, and you can be sure nobody on their way out to moose camp is going to pass on a bull standing in the ditch waiting for a bullet.

There just seems to be a double standard with grizzlies, since they seem so huggable....

And I've never seen anyone in the grocery store finger pointing at anyone else for not giving that frozen lasagna "fair chase". :)
 
Northman999 said:
And I've never seen anyone in the grocery store finger pointing at anyone else for not giving that frozen lasagna "fair chase". :)
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You also don't need a license and there is no bag limit on frozen lasagna.

In Northern BC there is a rut closure on moose - you cannot hunt or shoot them within 400m of basically any road or within the same distance from the shore of Southern Teslin Lake. I suspect "huggability" of bull moose don't factor too heavily in that regulation!

I'd be more concerned about the reasons why people vote "no". Did you see the options provided?
 
You guys do realize that this survey can be filled out unlimited times by one individual right? We are undergoing a similar process here in Alberta right now and it's a total sham. An anti hunting group or opther interested party could easily sway these results considerably by having a couple of their minions sit at a computer all day and vote.
 
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