Saskatchewan putting crown land lots up for sale

[g-manz35]

Wildlife thrives on agricultural land. Look into the amount of money that is paid to farmers for wildlife damage every year.

This is correct. As long as there are bush lines and old yard sites left along with that agricultural land. Unfortunately the bush lines and yard sights keep disappearing. Once the land (our land) is sold there is no longer control of what happens to it. We were pheasant hunting down by Weyburn a few weeks ago and we had yard sites and tree lines in our GPS that no longer existed and guess what! There were no pheasants standing out in the bare field. Go figure??

 

[umchorn2]

That 5000+ acres does not include PFRA/pasture.

Like I said wildlife lands is not being utilized now because hunters know they have far higher success rates hunting agricultural land, so why would we need more?

I own 13 quarters and wildlife thrives on all of it. I also lease wildlife lands where I cut hay.

It really amazes me that you have so little knowledge about the land and wildlife so close to you.

You still have a couple unanswered questions. Particularly what are you planning to do with your land? Eventually you will need to figure this out.

I am fully aware that agricultural land satisfies at least one requirement for wildlife to survive...food. For example a 160 acre quarter section of wheat does provide protein for migratory birds during their fall migration. However it is quite a stretch of an argument to say that it satisfies all three requirements for the survival of wildlife...especially a cultivated wheat field. That is, food & shelter, and these 2 requirements in quantities large enough to sustain and hold breeding populations of wildlife. Wildlife populatiins which hopefully will grow larger and healthier over time.

And even if no one is using the FWDL per se, the wildlife is using it as it satisfies all 3 requirements for their survival. Once again, it was purchased for wildlife. A much different situation than farmland which although it may provide food at times to some species of animals, make no mistake, it is not habitat. I am not disputing the point you raise about wildlife using our planted spaces to their advantage but only clarifying for others this distinction.

And finally, for my liking, travelling 100km to hunt in a decent area is too far. However I am aware that for many it may be close, and to others it may be their backyard. I would like to see the distance that one has to travel to successfully hunt thier chosen quarry decrease over time not increase as more and more habitat becomes agriculture and pasture and animals become fewer and farther between as human settlement and population displace our wild spaces.

One day the 100km trip from Saskatoon you speak about being full of wildlife will become a 150km trip and so forth until it eventually becomes not even worth the trip. Not sure if you pick-up what I'm laying down.

 

[skhunter]

You still have a couple unanswered questions. Particularly what are you planning to do with your land? Eventually you will need to figure this out.

I am fully aware that agricultural land satisfies at least one requirement for wildlife to survive...food. For example a 160 acre quarter section of wheat does provide protein for migratory birds during their fall migration. However it is quite a stretch of an argument to say that it satisfies all three requirements for the survival of wildlife...especially a cultivated wheat field. That is, food & shelter, and these 2 requirements in quantities large enough to sustain and hold breeding populations of wildlife. Wildlife populatiins which hopefully will grow larger and healthier over time.

And even if no one is using the FWDL per se, the wildlife is using it as it satisfies all 3 requirements for their survival. Once again, it was purchased for wildlife. A much different situation than farmland which although it may provide food at times to some species of animals, make no mistake, it is not habitat. I am not disputing the point you raise about wildlife using our planted spaces to their advantage but only clarifying for others this distinction.

And finally, for my liking, travelling 100km to hunt in a decent area is too far. However I am aware that for many it may be close, and to others it may be their backyard. I would like to see the distance that one has to travel to successfully hunt thier chosen quarry decrease over time not increase as more and more habitat becomes agriculture and pasture and animals become fewer and farther between as human settlement and population displace our wild spaces.

One day the 100km trip from Saskatoon you speak about being full of wildlife will become a 150km trip and so forth until it eventually becomes not even worth the trip. Not sure if you pick-up what I'm laying down.

So 5000 acres of natural habitat containing whitetail, mule deer, elk and moose 1 hour away is not good enough hunting opportunity for you?

Just what percentage of land in Sask do you want taken out of production?

 

[lj007]

How much do these lands sell for and how does my offshore company get me a piece?

 

[oilman28]

Not when it's a square mile of canola, with not a tree in sight. That field would support some mice, a coyote, and some mosquitoes.

To be fair farmers buy land to farm not to protect widlife habitat. Keeping bush on a quarter section costs money and time unless the land is not worth farming.

 

[hunter7mmRM]

You guys are making a big deal out of an ant hill in my opinion. Take a moment and think of how a lot of our country was founded. How each little community was formed. They were little farming towns. Land was cleared to make a living. Sure, most of us now make a living by different means, but what's a few thousand acres of more private land. Northern Alberta has had these land auctions as well, only there was (by some Google, as I didn't keep track) about 110000 acres sold. Our community has thrived. More small businesses making a go by offering land clearing, or repair shops. More heavy equipment means more jobs. Sure we have to, in some cases, drive a full hour now before we get to crown, but so what. And I don't like the fact that so much forest is turned into arm land, It's how our community was formed in the first place. It has given many people from the younger generation an opportunity to get into farming and have some land.

 

[coyoteking]

Not when it's a square mile of canola, with not a tree in sight. That field would support some mice, a coyote, and some mosquitoes.

While combining our 1500 acres of mustard this fall I saw 6 moose, dozens of deer, dozens of antelope, coyotes, raccoons, 2 flocks of sharp tails, and hundreds of Hungarian partridge.