Featured Sponsor
User Info
 Welcome Anonymous
 Membership:
 Latest: 300ultramag
 New Today: 0
 New Yesterday: 0
 Overall: 498
People Online:
 Members: 0
 Visitors: 1
Bots: 0
 Staff: 0
Staff Online:No staff members are online!
Main Menu
 Home Community Members options Forums Search Web
 Newsletter Pro
Our Sponsors
Members Photos
Survey
Should we start a FREE magazine that features members and their hunting adventures and pictures?
Hunting Guide
Trapping Guide
|
Welcome to www.ManitobaHunters.com
Thanks for checking out www.ManitobaHunters.com , we are still making changes to the site but it is open for registration (which is free) please have some fun and share your experiences. 
Posted on Friday, September 07
Wildlife association revived
Posted by WpgJim on Thursday, July 02, 2009 (14:39:15) (0 reads)
The Lac du Bonnet Wildlife Association is experiencing a revival, thanks to a new executive that’s been formed to take the reins of the long-dormant club.
A meeting was held last week at the Lac du Bonnet Community Centre to help bring some public attention to the club and the new executive’s plans to bring it back to life.
“It went great,” new association president Gerry Arbez said. “We had 30 people sign up as members and I think we’re on the right track to getting the club started up again.”
The new eight-member board is composed of Arbez, Bruce Williams, Ed Klassen, Devin Orvis, Art St. Amant, Devin McMurren, Ken MacMaster, and Neil Jack.
The wildlife association has existed since the 1970s, and for many years was active in the community and contributed to many wildlife-related projects including fish and bird counts, walleye spawning ground development, feeding deer during harsh winters, and a lot more.
However, membership dwindled in later years to the point where the club had virtually no members. Its only event for the past several years has been the annual Sno Golf tournament, which remains very successful. The association also recently donated $25,000 to the Lac du Bonnet Charitable Foundation.
Continued After Advertisement Below
Advertisement
Arbez, who’s had a cottage in Pinawa Bay for the past 30 years, said the initiative to revive the club began when he and a few neighbours got together and started mulling the idea over.
“We thought it was a real crime that Lac du Bonnet didn’t have an active wildlife association,” he said. “We felt the club was needed and wanted to see what we could do to get it re-activated.”
So, the group spoke to past club president Pete Humble, who is now ready to turn over the wildlife association mailbox and bank account to the new executive. The bank account holds some funds that will be used to help get the newly-revived club off and running.
“I think it’s really great that this new group has stepped forward to breathe some life back into the club,” Humble said. “For awhile there didn’t seem to be any interest, but it looks like that’s changed and that’s great to see.”
Arbez said the club’s first activities have yet to be finalized, but could possibly include a club canoe trip, a mock turkey shoot using paper targets, and a post-hunting season dinner and awards night.
He said the executive also wants to investigate the possibility of the club gaining access to a shooting range. There is currently one in Seven Sisters that was briefly discussed.
“Whatever we do, we have to involve the youth,” Arbez said. “There’s a lot of possibilities in that regard.”
Membership fees to the new club have been finalized, and are set as follows:
—Family membership is $45 for 18 months
—Single membership $40 for 18 months
—Youth membership $10 for 18 months
Six-month memberships are also available.
Anyone with questions about the club can contact Arbez at 345-8956 or public relations director Ken MacMaster at 345-2925.
Membership inquiries can be directed to membership director Art St. Amant at 345-2161.
Source: http://www.lacdubonnetleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1629819[img]
  | Score: 0
|
Research to target wasting disease
Posted by WpgJim on Thursday, June 18, 2009 (13:14:29) (0 reads)
A researcher at the University of Manitoba is spearheading a first-of-its-kind study into how people are affected by chronic wasting disease.
It is a highly contagious, environmentally transmitted prion disease found in wild animals, particularly deer and elk in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Prof. Stéphane McLachlan of the Environmental Conservation Lab, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources at U of M, has been awarded $400,000 to research the implications of CWD for people most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of the disease, especially aboriginal communities.
The funding is being provided by PrioNet Canada in an effort to address the health-related risks posed by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease), CWD and other prion diseases, and to accelerate discoveries in these areas.
The research, co-funded by the Alberta Prion Research Institute, is part of a total infusion of $1.6 million to support three projects, including two additional Alberta-based projects.
"Although no evidence indicates whether or not CWD is transmissible to humans, it may still have severe socioeconomic consequences for hunters, for those in the tourism and nature industries, and especially for aboriginal communities," said McLachlan.
For example, he explained that many aboriginal communities are concerned about contamination and diseases of wildlife and therefore distrust the safety of wild food, which may undermine traditional livelihoods and lead to stress and compromised health.
Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/research-to-target-wasting-disease-48416967.html
| Score: 0
|
Conservation officers kill cougar linked to attack on Squamish B.C., girl
Posted by WpgJim on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 (15:01:53) (0 reads)
SQUAMISH, B.C. - A young Squamish, B.C., girl is recovering from a cougar attack near her Howe Sound home and her mom is being hailed for saving the little girl.
A neighbour says three-year-old Maya was jumped by the adult, male cougar as she picked berries with her mother early Tuesday evening.
Wade Rowland drove Maya's mother to the hospital where the girl is expected to make a full recovery from several scratches and puncture wounds.
He says the mother reacted instinctively when she saw the cat pounce, pulling the cougar off her daughter and hurling it aside before grabbing the child and getting away.
Conservation officers tracked a male cougar and shot it late Tuesday night.
A necropsy is planned and DNA samples will be taken to confirm it was the cat involved and also to help determine why the attack occurred.
By: THE CANADIAN PRESS
Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Conservation-officers-kill-cougar-linked-to-attack-on-Squamish-B_C__-girl-48245532.html
| Score: 0
|
Bear cub spotted with head stuck in feeder
Posted by WpgJim on Thursday, June 11, 2009 (16:37:20) (0 reads)
GRANTSBURG, Wis. - It was no honey pot like in "Winnie the Pooh" but a bear cub in Wisconsin was spotted with a bird feeder stuck on its head.
A landowner in the northwestern part of the state told the state Department of Natural Resources about the cub over Memorial Day weekend.
But the mother was so protective that DNR officers couldn't get near the cub, who was still able to climb a tree.
When the Department of Natural Resources set out a live trap this week, it caught both the cub and the mom. The feeder was found in pieces next to them, possibly chewed apart by the mom.
Both bears were released into the woods.
By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/oddities/Bear-cub-spotted-with-head-stuck-in-feeder.html
| Score: 0
|
Deer escapes after being trapped on bridge
Posted by WpgJim on Thursday, June 11, 2009 (16:32:58) (0 reads)
A deer runs off the Esplanade Riel footbridge this afternoon after getting its head stuck between bars of a railing. (MIKE.DEAL@FREEPRESS.MB.CA )
WINNIPEG--A deer was trapped on the Esplanade
WINNIPEG--A deer was trapped on the Esplanade Riel footbridge this afternoon before it escaped and ran off.
Pedestrians were asked to stay off the Esplanade Riel footbridge at around 2:40 p.m. today after the deer apparently got its head stuck in the railing.
Related ItemsArticles■Forks walkway may be visible by Sunday
Officials had feared if the animal got free it would panic and injure a passerby.
The deer became free and ran back and forth on the bridge before running off into the St. Boniface area.
Witnesses said it appeared to have some blood on its head.
Vehicle traffic on the bridge was not affected.
Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Deer-trapped-on-bridge-47542432.html
| Score: 0
|
|
Manitoba Weather
Member pictures
|
