Paid Hunting in Alberta!

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They're at it again. Here's a link: https://www.landuse.alberta.ca/RegionalPlans/SouthSaskatchewanRegion/SSRPRAC/Pages/default.aspx

Here's the important part: Recommendations:

5.3.14.2 Respect private property rights by developing a suite of conservation and
stewardship tools (e.g., economic and market-based incentives,
conservation easements, transferable development credits, mitigation
banking and paid access for hunting) that can be voluntarily used by
landowners and disposition holders to help sustain biodiversity.

Here's a list of Open house dates. If you want to be hunting 10 years from now, get involved. Otherwise you won't be able to afford to.

Cardston
November 6
Cardston and District Seniors Centre
260 First Street West

Red Deer
November 6
Sheraton Red Deer Hotel
3310 - 50 Avenue

Taber
November 7
Heritage Inn
4830 - 46 Avenue (Hwy 3)

Vulcan
November 8
Legion Hall
240 Sinclair Road

Calgary
November 13
Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport
2120 - 16 Avenue Northeast

Edmonton
November 15
Ramada Conference Centre
11834 Kingsway Avenue

Airdrie
November 20
Best Western Regency Inn
121 Edmonton Trail Southeast

Pincher Creek
November 20
Heritage Inn Hotel and Convention Centre
919 Waterton Avenue

Canmore
November 21
Radisson Hotel and Conference Centre
511 Bow Valley Trail

Milk River
November 21
Heritage Hall
213 Main Street

Cochrane
November 22
The Ranchehouse
101 Ranchehouse Road

Brooks
November 22
Lakeside Leisure Hall, Flexhall
111 Fourth Avenue West

Claresholm
November 27
Claresholm Community Centre, North Hall
5940 - 59 Avenue West

Okotoks
November 28
Foothills Community Centre
4, 204 Community Way

Strathmore
November 29
Strathmore Centennial Civic Centre
120 Brent Boulevard

Drumheller
December 4
Canalta Jurassic
1103 Highway 9 South

Crowsnest Pass
December 4
Elks Hall
2025 - 129 Street
Blairmore

Medicine Hat
December 5
Medicine Hat Lodge
1051 Ross Glen Drive South East

Foremost
December 5
Foremost Community Hall
802 First Avenue West

Lethbridge
December 6
Coast Lethbridge Hotel
526 Magrath Drive South
All sessions run from 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Thanks to http://albertasportsman.com If I hadn't seen it there I wouldn't have even heard about this.
 
Was posted on the albertasportsman forum, just follow the link.
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I was on that forum, and the links led to the same default page. I could only find old information, and old lists for hearings. I was looking for something that gave a date of November 2012.
 
I have seen all this before.

Paid access for hunting on private land isn't a good thing for most hunters. Using paid access by disposition holders is a very, very scary thought. Grazing leases and Farm Development leases are crown land with agricultural dispositions on them. Having to pay to hunt on crown land would be an atrocity.
 
Big Jon said:
I have seen all this before.

Paid access for hunting on private land isn't a good thing for most hunters. Using paid access by disposition holders is a very, very scary thought. Grazing leases and Farm Development leases are crown land with agricultural dispositions on them. Having to pay to hunt on crown land would be an atrocity.
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Gotta love the Alberta PayCash party.
 
Mighty Peace said:
There are no dates for northern Alberta?? Peace River or GP areas??
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Peace, if you follow the link in post#10 it gives you the call numbers of the Land use secretariat. If you call the main number the lady can tell you the dates/locations of the mtgs in your area. The province is split into I believe 5 areas; all are having these input mtgs shortly, and some right now.
Near as I can garner these dates/locations are NOT being advertised, so we're down to word of mouth to have input. The lady was very helpful with info, sure she can get you sorted.
 
I suspect the fewer chosen places to talk in the north for this newest subject is on purpose by those organizing these public meetings. Already up here the Lower Athabasca plan has rural landowners and hunters on edge about land use/access. This 'paid access for hunting' is tatmount to commericalizing the resource. I do not know about anyone else, but I did not move here to mirror 'country living' in Central Europe! Take away hunting and I might as well pack up and move to NY city, same thing right? Someone is playing divide and conquer with us IMO!
 
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Big Jon said:
I have seen all this before.

Paid access for hunting on private land isn't a good thing for most hunters. Using paid access by disposition holders is a very, very scary thought. Grazing leases and Farm Development leases are crown land with agricultural dispositions on them. Having to pay to hunt on crown land would be an atrocity.
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...the Americanization of sport hunting in Canada. It will only spread across the Prairies like cancer.
 
So who, exactly, is pushing for this?

I've never known the PC's to come up with their own ideas in the past.

Is there some land owners group who has the ear of the PC's? This keeps coming up, so there has to be some party who keeps campaigning for it.

Fat
 
So, for us young bucks with our beards not yet grown, the idea behind this is that someone wants to charge hunters admission fees to be able to access land for the purpose of hunting, on top of all the current restrictions?
 
Hmm, I can't say I agree with that idea. Seems to me you'd get one rich guy drop ten thousand bucks to have the place to himself and stonewall all us peasants.
 
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