Using the Ontario Land Use ATLAS for hunting?

Slaymoar

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Any tips on using this tool? Calling MNR offices all over the place has been harder to extract information from than I thought... They often refer to this tool.

How do you guys use it and properly educate/plan/execute your hunting locations?

Thank you
 
Yes, I do as well.

It's ok if you want to make a map "after" you have found somewhere to go, but of little use before hand.

Much of Ontario's crown land, at least south of North Bay, has been (administratively) handed over to the counties. Some keep decent track of it, others have sold or leased chunks off (and rarely publish it) and usually what "is left" is so inhospitable that even billy goats couldn't use it (bogs/swamps).

So if you see something on the land use tool, then you have to start the leg work. I have found a great deal that was "hunt-able" already had established "camps" - and in some counties you don't want to wander in to the wrong "camp" :)

Then, as an example, in Renfrew county they "lease out" pieces of crown for hunting - it's all cut up and they have distance requirements between camps etc and they charge property tax for the use of.

In my county we found a piece using the tool - then called MNR (MNRF now), they told us it was under control of the county. We went to the county offices and they told us it was the Ministries jurisdiction, so we ended up hunting it and have no flack/feed back. But that was one small parcel of about a dozen that we have tried to use over the years.

Short answer - NOBODY that gets paid by taxpayers, at any level of government NOR any map that they have produced is going to help you out very much at all.
 
once you get used to it. it's easy to use.. use the filters to display/label crown land..

then use the info tool to find out the details on the parcel (what activities are permitted etc)


here is a youtube video someone made for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snbMdL0ZK1M

Thank you for this video.

I guess it is a bit hard to really find spots and the leg work still needs to happen if you want to hunt without any worries about trespassing or hunting preserves etc.. I'm just going to have to do my homework even more and keep bugging people until I get the straight answers.
 
Thank you for this video.

I guess it is a bit hard to really find spots and the leg work still needs to happen if you want to hunt without any worries about trespassing or hunting preserves etc.. I'm just going to have to do my homework even more and keep bugging people until I get the straight answers.

you said it.. it takes many hours to find good public spots to hunt, check the regs, local bylaws, local terrain by google maps.. GPS programming (or custom maps on google maps)
 
I also find it easy to use but have practiced a lot over the years and first had some maps from the MNR so I knew where to look. Some municipalities have maps that show crown land as well.
 
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