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A herd of elk in a winter wheat field in Alberta’s foothills. Photo: Traci Beattie/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Saskatchewan pilot hunting program to help with wildlife damage

Landowners in five rural Sask. areas will have access to more licences

By Karen Briere September 20, 2024

A new pilot program in five Saskatchewan rural municipalities is launching to help landowners deal with excessive wildlife damage. The Big Game Management Extended Hunt will occur Nov. 1-10 in the RMs of Livingstone, Hazel Dell, Kelvington, Bjorkdale and Leask.

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Hunters urged to take biosecurity measures against bird flu

By Geralyn Wichers September 16, 2024

Farmers who plan to hunt geese and ducks this fall should take biosecurity measures to ensure they don't transmit high path avian influenza (bird flu) to their flocks and herds.

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Recreation, ranching and rights

Public Policy: News Roundup from the August 2021 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Alberta Beef Producers August 11, 2021

With Alberta’s iconic landscapes and incredible natural diversity, it’s no wonder people are eager to explore the great outdoors. And in many cases, that exploration can be done respectfully, through parks, agri-tourism and public land escapes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way, and we increasingly seeing conflict between land users and landowners and […] Read more

The U.S. National Wildlife Health Center and U.S. Geological Survey in November 2017 produced this map of CWD’s current distribution in North America. (NWHC.usgs.gov)

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B.C. to block hunting attractants from out-of-province

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 31, 2017

Anyone planning to hunt in British Columbia may soon be blocked from bringing in urine and other materials from other provinces’ farmed elk and cervids, in a bid to keep chronic wasting disease (CWD) in check. The provincial government recently opened a public comment period, running until Jan. 19, on a list of changes it […] Read more

Livestock

UFA to shut down outdoor outfitter business

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff September 16, 2017

Alberta farmers’ co-operative UFA is set to get out of an “increasingly competitive” space in the retail sector by closing its outdoor supply chain Wholesale Sports. The co-operative, which bought what was then a seven-store chain in 2008, announced Thursday it would start inventory liquidation sales Friday at all 12 of its remaining Wholesale Sports […] Read more

Livestock

Restricted zone tightens for Algonquin wolf hunting

By John Greig November 26, 2016

Farmers will be able to protect their livestock and families from Algonquin wolves in any areas and hunting will only be restricted in areas near four parks, allaying some concerns of farmers after the wolf was declared a threatened species. Kathryn McGarry, Ontario minister of natural resources and forestry, spoke to the Ontario Federation of […] Read more

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History: The Menace of the Antelope Hunter

Reprinted from the January 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 2, 2016

The Menace of the Antelope Hunter By T. L. Shepherd, West Plains, Sask. As stockmen, can’t we do something to protect ourselves about this very real “Menace of the Antelope Hunter?” Or, are we supposed to just sit and twiddle our thumbs, while the visiting so-called Sportsmen in high-powered cars with higher-powered rifles leave our […] Read more

The Manitoba Wildlife Federation points to this bullet hole in a rural northwestern Manitoba home as an example of the risks to the public from unchecked night hunting. (MWF.mb.ca/Nightwatch)

Livestock

Manitoba hunters, ranchers seek rural night-hunting ban

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 18, 2016

Manitoba’s hunter and rancher groups are calling on the province to tighten its enforcement against night hunting and ban the activity among all hunters in the province’s populated rural areas. The call Tuesday from the Manitoba Wildlife Federation follows a Sept. 10 near-miss in which a couple near Winnipegosis, about 60 km north of Dauphin, […] Read more

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Saskatchewan pilot hunting program to help with wildlife damage

Hunters urged to take biosecurity measures against bird flu

Recreation, ranching and rights

B.C. to block hunting attractants from out-of-province

UFA to shut down outdoor outfitter business

Restricted zone tightens for Algonquin wolf hunting

History: The Menace of the Antelope Hunter

Manitoba hunters, ranchers seek rural night-hunting ban

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