Ontario Residents. Please Act Now for Bears Updated – Feb./10/2019
Please make a comment on the Environmental Registry now.
Deadline Feb. 18, 2020
-Contact your local MPP by email or direct mail. Please act now!
-Copy comment and mail or email letter addressed to Premier of Ontario.
-Submit your comment to the Environmental Registry.
See email links below. Make it your comment.
We have supplied information so that you may make an informed comment.
Best not to quote me or others regarding your thoughts on Spring Bear Hunt as form letters and people belonging to groups may not be counted as individual comments. Your comment as an individual counts for the most. Handwritten letters are most effective, emails are next best, petitions have least effect regarding Government decision making.
Spring Bear Hunt Points to Make. You may use a few or all. Make them your points.
We have supplied information so that you may make an informed comment.
Best not to quote me or others regarding your thoughts on Spring Bear Hunt as form letters and people belonging to groups may not be counted as individual comments. Your comment as an individual counts for the most. Handwritten letters are most effective, emails are next best, petitions have least effect regarding Government decision making.
Spring Bear Hunt Points to Make. You may use a few or all. Make them your points.
Best scenario. Spring Bear Hunt should be abolished, however if hunt is too continue, changes must be made.
-It should last 30 days, June 1 to June 30. -Baiting must stop after June 30 not to begin again until September 1st, or 2 weeks prior to fall hunt.
-Baiting should be a minimum of 2 km from the nearest residence or residential area and garbage must be cleared after hunt.
-Fall hunt should begin September 15 and end October 30 throughout Province.
-Females with cubs must be “truly” protected during the spring hunt and the fall hunt.
-Bears (a few individuals) do occasionally prey on moose calves, this is “not” common.
-Best way to reduce human/bear conflicts is to manage people by making them manage their food waste.
*Females with cubs must be protected; currently that is difficult as cubs are frequently treed or kept away by their mother while she forages.
-The current season of May 1 to June 15 should be changed to June 1 to June 30 to protect females with cubs as well as the cubs themselves.
-Baiting must end when the season concludes and not begin again until shortly before the fall season and more stringent limits must be put in place to protect recreationalists, drivers, property owners, pets and others from bait piles that attract wildlife.
-All bait sites should be registered to ensure compliance.
-The Government must consider the impact of a spring bear hunt on other recreationalists’ safety, freedom to explore and expectations, as bear hunters in the spring make up a very small percentage of people enjoying the outdoors in Ontario.
-The use of hounds/dogs to chase, tree and/or otherwise harass bears should be immediately halted.
Link to Environmental Registry – https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-1112
Find out who is your MPP – Locate Your MPP
Contact Premier of Ontario – https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/default.aspx
3 short videos to help you be informed about bears and bear hunting.
Thank you for taking the time to encourage change for the good.
Mike McIntosh and Bear With Us Team
