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Changes in general regulations are indicated in the guide. Seasons and bag limits may change significantly from year to year. Please check all season dates and bag limits carefully. Some amendments may occur after the printing of this guide. We encourage hunters to check the amendments on the website at www.manitoba.ca/conservation/wildlife/hunting/index.html prior to going in the field.

Big Game

White-tailed Deer Seasons

A Third Deer Licence has been added in GHA 26.

Moose Seasons

In GHAs 18 to 18C the draw and non-draw moose seasons have been cancelled.

The GHA 26 moose season has been cancelled.

The non-draw archery moose season in GHA 14 and 14A has been cancelled.

The non-draw rifle moose season in GHA 19A is now a draw season.

The bag limit for moose in GHAs 27, 28, 29, 29A and 31A has been changed to one bull moose.

Gray Wolf Seasons

In GHAs 18 to 18C and GHA 26, the gray wolf bag limit has increased to two (2) wolves for all hunters (Resident, Non-resident and Foreign resident)

Caribou Seasons

All first and second resident GHA 1 caribou licences will now be sold on a first-come first-served basis until all licenses are sold with no provision for later purchase. The fall season will have 350 licenses available and the winter season will have 450 licenses available.

Game Birds

Migratory Game Bird Seasons

The Canada goose bag limit for residents and non-residents has been increased to 8 daily and 24 in possession.

The possession limits for ducks, cranes, coots and snipes has been increased to three times the daily limit for all hunters.

The foreign resident waterfowl opening date has now been standardized to September 24.

Upland Game Bird Seasons

The ptarmigan season in GBHZs 1 and 2 has been extended to February 28.

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From a breeding population of almost none — zero — resident Canada geese in the late 1960s, Minnesota’s flock has grown to about 300,000 of these fowl.

Decades ago, when Randy Bartz began hunting Canada geese seriously — placing his long love of duck hunting secondary — he had limited places where he could chase these big birds.

“Of course we had them in Rochester,” said Bartz, of Oronoco, Minn., also known as “The Flagman,” for his development of nylon goose imitations that hunters wave to attract honkers. “But elsewhere in the state, you either had to go to the far northwest, to Thief Lake, or to Fergus Falls or a couple of other spots. There just weren’t that many opportunities.”

Times have changed. From a breeding population of almost none — zero — resident Canada geese in the late 1960s, Minnesota’s flock has grown to about 300,000 of these fowl.

“When we first began our breeding waterfowl surveys in spring 1968,” said Department of Natural Resources waterfowl specialist Steve Cordts, “we didn’t count one Canada goose for the first six years. Now they can be found just about everywhere in the state.”

As Minnesota’s honker population has grown, hunting opportunities have expanded — and not only geographically. A September season has been added, which this year begins on Saturday, a half-hour before sunrise.

Bartz is among about 25,000 Minnesota waterfowlers who will be afield then, a group that during the early season (ending this year on Sept. 22) will kill about 40 percent of Canada geese harvested in the state this fall.

Amazingly, while Minnesota’s resident Canada goose population has exploded, the number of Canada geese that migrate through the state — the Eastern Prairie Population (EPP) that nests in the Canadian far north — has remained about constant.

In the 1960s, the EPP flock provided nearly the entirety of the Minnesota Canada goose harvest, much of it near the Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area and Refuge in the western part of the state.

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A CBC News investigation has found that a plan to reduce the risk of a catastrophic goose-strike accident at Winnipeg’s airport was developed five years ago but never implemented.

The plan was presented to the Urban Goose Working Group (UGWG) in 2004. It proposed 26 measures that could be taken to manage the Canada goose population in Winnipeg.

Geese have caused damage to aircraft measured in the millions of dollars, and threaten the safety of people on board the planes and result in delays at airports.

‘If we should strike them at the wrong point in a flight, the results can be extremely critical to our safety’—Richard Sowden, Air Canada Pilots Association

Key recommendations in the Manitoba Conservation-drafted plan included developing a goose-management system for Winnipeg and drawing down the water in storm-retention ponds near the airport to reduce the lure of the area to birds.

But the working group — which included Manitoba Conservation (MC), the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Airports Authority, Transport Canada and Environment Canada — failed to adopt the plan and stopped meeting after the 2004 plan was tabled.

“We felt we needed more support, that we needed terms of reference — that would lend credence to it,” said Barry Verbiwski, MC’s wildlife manager.

But other agencies were not eager to sign on to the report.

Minutes of the group’s Aug. 4, 2004 meeting say the City of Winnipeg representative “stated that the residents of Winnipeg do not feel the geese in the Greater Winnipeg Area pose any problem, as she has had only a few calls of complaint … Based on this the City of Winnipeg does not consider Canada geese to be a problem.”

The Winnipeg Airports Authority “suggests the poor attendance by UGWG members is indicative of lack of interest by members.” The minutes suggest the WAA was concerned the report would scare the public.

The WAA “advised that air travel is still the safest mode of transportation and did not want the travelling public to become alarmed and cautioned that extreme care be taken with the document.”
Working group told of potential for calamity

At the same meeting, the working group members heard of the problems when geese and airplanes mix. In September 2003, a Canadian Forces Airbus struck a Canada goose while on final approach to Winnipeg’s airport, “causing over $1 million damage alone and the potential loss of crew members had the goose gone into the motor.”

At the time, pilots for major airlines warned the working group that action was needed to reduce the risk of goose strikes at Winnipeg’s airport.

And the concern is growing, especially in light of incidents such as a U.S. incident last January when a plane ingested geese into its engines and was forced to land on the Hudson River in New York.

“We know that if we should strike them at the wrong point in a flight, the results can be extremely critical to our safety,” says Richard Sowden of the Air Canada Pilots Association. Sowden is urging authorities to do more to reduce the hazard.

“Wildlife management, it’s like home insurance,” Sowden said. “We have to keep investing in that insurance so that we can protect ourselves from having one of those serious strike events with a catastrophic result.”
Local airline says problem increasing

The head of a Winnipeg airline shares Sowden’s concern. Mark Wehrle of Perimeter Aviation said geese strikes are happening more often.

“At one time it was a very rare event, now it’s becoming more common,” Wehrle said.

On Oct. 16, 2009, a Perimeter flight carrying nine people from Oxford House, Man., was on final approach to land in Winnipeg when Wehrle said the pilot told him he heard a swoosh and a thud. The cabin then filled with the smell of burning flesh.

A Canada goose had been sucked through the propeller blades and into the engine.

The pilot shut down the affected engine and the plane was able to land safely. But Wehrle said he’s stuck paying a six-figure repair bill — more than $150,000 damage was done to the engine.

Wehrle said his company suffers about 10 bird strikes a year that are not always due to geese. But he said because of the large body size of geese, they can cause more damage than smaller birds when hit by an aircraft.

Conservation’s Verbiwski said some progress has been made on reducing the number of geese in Winnipeg by measures such as introducing a hunting season on the outskirts of the city. But he acknowledged there is still more work to be done.

If you have any tips for the CBC News investigative team, call the confidential tip line at 788-3744.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/11/01/f-man-geese-airplanes-iteam.htmlA CBC News investigation has found that a plan to reduce the risk of a catastrophic goose-strike accident at Winnipeg’s airport was developed five years ago but never implemented.

The plan was presented to the Urban Goose Working Group (UGWG) in 2004. It proposed 26 measures that could be taken to manage the Canada goose population in Winnipeg.

Geese have caused damage to aircraft measured in the millions of dollars, and threaten the safety of people on board the planes and result in delays at airports.

‘If we should strike them at the wrong point in a flight, the results can be extremely critical to our safety’—Richard Sowden, Air Canada Pilots Association

Key recommendations in the Manitoba Conservation-drafted plan included developing a goose-management system for Winnipeg and drawing down the water in storm-retention ponds near the airport to reduce the lure of the area to birds.

But the working group — which included Manitoba Conservation (MC), the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Airports Authority, Transport Canada and Environment Canada — failed to adopt the plan and stopped meeting after the 2004 plan was tabled.

“We felt we needed more support, that we needed terms of reference — that would lend credence to it,” said Barry Verbiwski, MC’s wildlife manager.

But other agencies were not eager to sign on to the report.

Minutes of the group’s Aug. 4, 2004 meeting say the City of Winnipeg representative “stated that the residents of Winnipeg do not feel the geese in the Greater Winnipeg Area pose any problem, as she has had only a few calls of complaint … Based on this the City of Winnipeg does not consider Canada geese to be a problem.”

The Winnipeg Airports Authority “suggests the poor attendance by UGWG members is indicative of lack of interest by members.” The minutes suggest the WAA was concerned the report would scare the public.

The WAA “advised that air travel is still the safest mode of transportation and did not want the travelling public to become alarmed and cautioned that extreme care be taken with the document.”
Working group told of potential for calamity

At the same meeting, the working group members heard of the problems when geese and airplanes mix. In September 2003, a Canadian Forces Airbus struck a Canada goose while on final approach to Winnipeg’s airport, “causing over $1 million damage alone and the potential loss of crew members had the goose gone into the motor.”

At the time, pilots for major airlines warned the working group that action was needed to reduce the risk of goose strikes at Winnipeg’s airport.

And the concern is growing, especially in light of incidents such as a U.S. incident last January when a plane ingested geese into its engines and was forced to land on the Hudson River in New York.

“We know that if we should strike them at the wrong point in a flight, the results can be extremely critical to our safety,” says Richard Sowden of the Air Canada Pilots Association. Sowden is urging authorities to do more to reduce the hazard.

“Wildlife management, it’s like home insurance,” Sowden said. “We have to keep investing in that insurance so that we can protect ourselves from having one of those serious strike events with a catastrophic result.”
Local airline says problem increasing

The head of a Winnipeg airline shares Sowden’s concern. Mark Wehrle of Perimeter Aviation said geese strikes are happening more often.

“At one time it was a very rare event, now it’s becoming more common,” Wehrle said.

On Oct. 16, 2009, a Perimeter flight carrying nine people from Oxford House, Man., was on final approach to land in Winnipeg when Wehrle said the pilot told him he heard a swoosh and a thud. The cabin then filled with the smell of burning flesh.

A Canada goose had been sucked through the propeller blades and into the engine.

The pilot shut down the affected engine and the plane was able to land safely. But Wehrle said he’s stuck paying a six-figure repair bill — more than $150,000 damage was done to the engine.

Wehrle said his company suffers about 10 bird strikes a year that are not always due to geese. But he said because of the large body size of geese, they can cause more damage than smaller birds when hit by an aircraft.

Conservation’s Verbiwski said some progress has been made on reducing the number of geese in Winnipeg by measures such as introducing a hunting season on the outskirts of the city. But he acknowledged there is still more work to be done.

If you have any tips for the CBC News investigative team, call the confidential tip line at 788-3744.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/11/01/f-man-geese-airplanes-iteam.html

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A CBC News investigation has found that a plan to reduce the risk of a catastrophic goose-strike accident at Winnipeg’s airport was developed five years ago but never implemented.

The plan was presented to the Urban Goose Working Group (UGWG) in 2004. It proposed 26 measures that could be taken to manage the Canada goose population in Winnipeg.

Geese have caused damage to aircraft measured in the millions of dollars, and threaten the safety of people on board the planes and result in delays at airports.

‘If we should strike them at the wrong point in a flight, the results can be extremely critical to our safety’—Richard Sowden, Air Canada Pilots Association

Key recommendations in the Manitoba Conservation-drafted plan included developing a goose-management system for Winnipeg and drawing down the water in storm-retention ponds near the airport to reduce the lure of the area to birds.

But the working group — which included Manitoba Conservation (MC), the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Airports Authority, Transport Canada and Environment Canada — failed to adopt the plan and stopped meeting after the 2004 plan was tabled.

“We felt we needed more support, that we needed terms of reference — that would lend credence to it,” said Barry Verbiwski, MC’s wildlife manager.

But other agencies were not eager to sign on to the report.

Minutes of the group’s Aug. 4, 2004 meeting say the City of Winnipeg representative “stated that the residents of Winnipeg do not feel the geese in the Greater Winnipeg Area pose any problem, as she has had only a few calls of complaint … Based on this the City of Winnipeg does not consider Canada geese to be a problem.”

The Winnipeg Airports Authority “suggests the poor attendance by UGWG members is indicative of lack of interest by members.” The minutes suggest the WAA was concerned the report would scare the public.

The WAA “advised that air travel is still the safest mode of transportation and did not want the travelling public to become alarmed and cautioned that extreme care be taken with the document.”
Working group told of potential for calamity

At the same meeting, the working group members heard of the problems when geese and airplanes mix. In September 2003, a Canadian Forces Airbus struck a Canada goose while on final approach to Winnipeg’s airport, “causing over $1 million damage alone and the potential loss of crew members had the goose gone into the motor.”

At the time, pilots for major airlines warned the working group that action was needed to reduce the risk of goose strikes at Winnipeg’s airport.

And the concern is growing, especially in light of incidents such as a U.S. incident last January when a plane ingested geese into its engines and was forced to land on the Hudson River in New York.

“We know that if we should strike them at the wrong point in a flight, the results can be extremely critical to our safety,” says Richard Sowden of the Air Canada Pilots Association. Sowden is urging authorities to do more to reduce the hazard.

“Wildlife management, it’s like home insurance,” Sowden said. “We have to keep investing in that insurance so that we can protect ourselves from having one of those serious strike events with a catastrophic result.”
Local airline says problem increasing

The head of a Winnipeg airline shares Sowden’s concern. Mark Wehrle of Perimeter Aviation said geese strikes are happening more often.

“At one time it was a very rare event, now it’s becoming more common,” Wehrle said.

On Oct. 16, 2009, a Perimeter flight carrying nine people from Oxford House, Man., was on final approach to land in Winnipeg when Wehrle said the pilot told him he heard a swoosh and a thud. The cabin then filled with the smell of burning flesh.

A Canada goose had been sucked through the propeller blades and into the engine.

The pilot shut down the affected engine and the plane was able to land safely. But Wehrle said he’s stuck paying a six-figure repair bill — more than $150,000 damage was done to the engine.

Wehrle said his company suffers about 10 bird strikes a year that are not always due to geese. But he said because of the large body size of geese, they can cause more damage than smaller birds when hit by an aircraft.

Conservation’s Verbiwski said some progress has been made on reducing the number of geese in Winnipeg by measures such as introducing a hunting season on the outskirts of the city. But he acknowledged there is still more work to be done.

If you have any tips for the CBC News investigative team, call the confidential tip line at 788-3744.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/11/01/f-man-geese-airplanes-iteam.html

Take opening morning of the early special Canada goose season last week, down on the upper Maumee River. Vaughn Hoblet and Tom Rumpf, both of rural Perrysburg, had situated themselves exactly in the right blinds hard by the riverbank. They had their limits of geese before 9 a.m. The rest of us – Ron Stieben, the property owner and host, Ron Gniewkowski, of Genoa, Jeff Palicki, of Toledo, and me – chose to take up posts slightly inland nearer a soybean field that the geese have been grazing to death. We took one bird – that is, Palicki did – by 10 a.m. Growing heat put an end to flying flocks and put an early end to a hunt in which 100 yards made all the difference. On balance, the lemon-colored dawn, dew-coated spiderwebs backlit in the rising rays and the ringside seat to the show – scores of geese and ducks trading upriver and down – made it worth getting up early. The goose-getting efforts of a rural Sandusky County neighbor evenings last week followed a similar pattern. One evening all he could do was watch as the flocks passed a mile south of his wheat stubble. The Sunday evening just before sunset, the birds dumped into his decoys and he was ready. His shotgun said so, three times.Scott Butterworth, wildlife management supervisor for Ohio Wildlife District 2, said action for geese and doves during the first week was spotty, especially for geese. “It was so darn hot,” he noted, applying the remarks to both hunters and the birds.

With doves, Butterworth said, usually such places as the state’s managed fields at various wildlife areas produce very well on opening day. Results this year were very uneven. Don Schooner, of Weston, who annually grooms two parcels for doves, estimates hunting success for his crew – led by Bruno Hankins, of Pemberville – is down so far this season by 30 to 40 percent. He said plenty of doves were about last week, but they seemed to be much more scattered than prior years, possibly because of the presence of more wheatfields. Many of those fields were tilled post-harvest much earlier than usual and the early tillage, Schooner added, could keep birds less concentrated. From here on out, the usual march of cold fronts are likely to move out local doves, but the same fronts may bring down more northern birds, Schooner said. Saturday’s early special teal season opener was somewhat slow at the state’s Magee Marsh in Ottawa County and Killdeer Plains in Wyandot County, Butterworth said. But the state’s Pickerel Creek area and adjacent Sandusky Bay seemed to have a lot of teal around, the supervisor added. The early goose season ends Monday, but teal season continues until Sept. 21. Dove season continues until Oct. 22, with a late split from Dec. 9 through 26. The other main season in play is squirrel and Butterworth said lots of them are to be found but not so with squirrel hunters. So the odds on bushytails are good. • Discounted antlerless deer licenses of just $3 for residents and $30 for nonresidents are being offered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for Kent County in hopes of encouraging an increased bag there during the statewide Sept. 18-22 private land antlerless season. Kent County is the site of the first known case of chronic wasting disease among deer in Michigan, CWD having been confirmed recently in a game farm doe. The MDNR has quarantined game farms statewide as a result, among other measures, and has instituted a CWD surveillance zone in nine northern Kent County townships. Hunters in the townships will be required to have their deer sampled at a check station for CWD testing. For any deer that may test positive, the hunter will be given a replacement permit and the MDNR will keep the carcass. For other details on the early hunt visit online at michigan.gov/dnr. • The inaugural “Cars for Critters” benefit car show is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 21 at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, 14000 West State Rt. 2, Oak Harbor. Friday is the deadline for advance registration. Proceeds from the show will benefit Back to the Wild, a nonprofit private wildlife rehabilitation center at Castalia. Mona Rutger, head of the center, will have live eagles, hawks, owls and other native wildlife on display, and some of the car classes in the show will be set up for cars with animal names. For example, a 1969 Ford Mustang may compete against a 1962 Chevrolet Impala in the “best mammal” class. Classes for all types of cars are planned, with trophy plaques awarded accordingly. For details and registration, call Eddy Pausch, assistant refuge manager, at 419-89…, extension 31. • The deadlines for ordering fish fingerlings of several species for stocking ponds is coming up within the week in Ottawa and Lucas counties. The Ottawa Soil and Water District deadline is Friday for bluegill, channel catfish, largemouth bass, redear sunfish and white amur, or grass carp. Call the district office for order details, 419-89…. The fish will be delivered Sept. 18 at the district office on Lake Street in Oak Harbor.

The Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District sale’s order deadline is Monday. The district offers the same species as Ottawa, plus yellow perch and fathead minnows. Pickup will be Sept. 21 at the district office at 130-A West Dudley St., Maumee. Call the office for order details 419-893-1966 or visit online at co.lucas.oh.us/LSWCD.

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