Saskatchewan Follows Manitoba

An interesting philosophical question. The much-touted North American Model for wildlife management is based on several principles, among them that wildlife is a public trust to be managed sustainably; that commerce in dead animals is prohibited; that all citizens have the right to hunt and fish; and that wildlife can only be killed for "legitimate" purposes like, food, fur, self defense, and property protection.

How does commercial guiding fit into that model? I certainly know many guides who have businesses aligned with all that, but what of a private ranch that monopolizes game on Forest Service or BLM land that can ony be accessed through their property; fenced hunts on "game" ranches; or vast acreages of leased lands where hunting rights are monopolized by guide services?

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Concerning the wanton waste of waterfowl especially Snow Geese this is not a new problem as it did happen in the 1990's when daily limits were raised. The solutions to this problem are not hard to find. First shit can laws that the birds cannot be processed into anything that does not have a attached wing for transport, blah, ba blah, ba blah. Encourage Sausage, jerky, etc. to be made and enjoyed. Snow Geese taste good and mighty fine eating in my book especially the young grey birds. They can legalize Reefer but not change and disguard archaic Game Laws?

When PA decided to cull the many resident Giant Canada geese they hired pros to do it and process the meat so it could be used in food banks and where ever they deemed it possible. I don't wanna hear the crap about it not being safe to eat. What about mad cow, and other diseases in domestic animals and birds. Have drop stations that will process and utilize the meat. Do Not Allow it to go to waste.

The first time I heard the term "Sky Carp" was from a Sask. Wildlife officer that checked us at a road block game check. I was dumbfounded. If that is the attitude from the top down how can you blame some hunters for thinking it. The solutions are not laws that exclude but laws that include and make SENSE.

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This was driven by the Guides Association first in Manitoba and then to SK. After listening to a podcast the lobbyist for this change reasoned that every non resident that set up shop for a month(or season) and had friends dropping in and out every few weeks constituting a de-facto guide service. We stayed at the home of a man we met years ago and did our own scouting and securing permission . We did not exchange any items of value including dollars for his hospitality. We spent plenty of dough in the area and almost never encountered another hunter and certainly not Canadian waterfowl hunters. They had no interest in the sport as far as I could tell,so I dont belive the new law is really for John Q. Yah he der. Its the guides trying to corner the market.
 
Gentlemen,
I would be the first to agree that the wholesale guiding industry like we are seeing today does not fit the North America Model of Wildlife Conservation. If not, why has it become so prevalent. Perhaps it is because the state and provincial authorities that manage these resources would rather abdicate their responsibilities for game management to a few hundred guides than attempt to police hundreds of thousands of hunters? Obviously these government agencies have the power to restrict what is not proper, such as profiteering from wildlife. If so, then they are to blame for failing at their mission, not the guides or the Guides Association who just want a level playing field.
RM
 
Eric Patterson said:
RM

Level playing field? They want disproportionate CONTROL of the resource for financial gain.
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Eric,
Maybe it's time duckboats.net gets into political advocacy? I have said for a long time that our own government is mismanaging our wildlife resources. It started after WWII with Feed The World. Almost 80% of Minnesota' wetlands were drained. RM
 
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RM Anderson said:
Eric,
Maybe it's time duckboats.net gets into political advocacy? I have said for a long time that our own government is mismanaging our wildlife resources. It started after WWII with Feed The World. Almost 80% of Minnesota' wetlands were drained. RM
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Well, we used to have a waterfowl advocacy organization that worked hard for state and federal rules to protect wetlands. DU still exists and does good work to restore and protect wetlands by buying them, or using Duck Stamp and Farm Bill programs for conservation easements and other private land conservation, but it's been a long time since they did much policy advocacy. I like the work they do on Farm Bill programs, but they used to be staunch defenders of Clean Water Act protection of wetlands, and have not been in many years now. I don't want to see this fun forum turn into an advocacy organization, but wetland protection and our waterfowl could really use one that mobilized hunters.
 
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