yay, here we go again. I have a good feeling about this year

I'm going to try something different, hopefully it works!

Don't forget to use a black pen! Monashee

I am going out tomorrow night and Sunday night for bears.
Can take 2 blacks/yr and one grizzly every 3 yrs. No draw required. April 15 to June 15.
Spring is here. Good luck on your draws. I have hunted in the Spatzizi area. Beautiful country.
Just bought my annual license and tags
2 black bear
1 grizzly
2 caribou
1 moose
1 sheep
1 goat

I am dreaming if i can fill all the tags but buy them anyway as don't cost much. Total was 75.00 and a few cents.

Watson Lake

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Originally posted by Watson Lake:
I am going out tomorrow night and Sunday night for bears.
Can take 2 blacks/yr and one grizzly every 3 yrs. No draw required. April 15 to June 15.
Spring is here. Good luck on your draws. I have hunted in the Spatzizi area. Beautiful country.
Just bought my annual license and tags
2 black bear
1 grizzly
2 caribou
1 moose
1 sheep
1 goat

I am dreaming if i can fill all the tags but buy them anyway as don't cost much. Total was 75.00 and a few cents.

Watson Lake

WOW!! sure ain't that inexspensive down here!!

PLUS DO NOT NEED A leh.

wATSON lAKE

Here in B.C., L.E.H. is a government "con job" which is used to grab more $$$$ from we res. hunters who OWN the wildlife resource so that fewer animals are harvested than with an open season. This suits the powerful and wellfunded "Guide-Outfitters of B.C." lobby as it means more animals for them to profit from by selling B.C. game to wealthy foreign "trophy" collectors.

The rare and highly sought after "Stone's Sheep" in northern B.C. and the legendary "Rocky Mountain Bighorn" of S.E. B.C. are two examples. In recent years, foreign "hunters have killed TWICE as many of these specatular rams as B.C. residents have and serious concerns about allowing foreign hunting here are being voiced by res. hunters.

IF, we "need" L.E.H. here in B.C. and I am NOT convinced that we do, from a conservation perspective, then we MUST totally BAN ALL non-resident, especially foreign, hunting of that species. We who OWN the resource MUST come first!

Given the increasing dominance of foreign, largely American, investment in and effective control of the B.C. hunting industry; it bodes ill for the average B.C. citizen in respect of access to HIS game in HIS region. This is NOT going to continue and I expect to see some "action" this coming season such as information blockades telling foreign hunters that they are NOT welome here.

If, the G.O.A.B.C. does not like this, well, let's see what the Vancouver media will make of a forign-owned GO outfit telling someone, like me, whose family pioneered in BC nearly 140 years ago, that their "rights" are greater than mine.......could be real interesting!

L.E.H. should be schitcanned, now!

Can't really be sure but I thuink I'm detecting a slight note of hostility in the previous post. All happy here as I got my first LEH draw in many, many years. Bull Moose draw right in my late season Deer area.

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Originally posted by Dewey:
Here in B.C., L.E.H. is a government "con job" which is used to grab more $$$$ from we res. hunters who OWN the wildlife resource so that fewer animals are harvested than with an open season. This suits the powerful and wellfunded "Guide-Outfitters of B.C." lobby as it means more animals for them to profit from by selling B.C. game to wealthy foreign "trophy" collectors.

The rare and highly sought after "Stone's Sheep" in northern B.C. and the legendary "Rocky Mountain Bighorn" of S.E. B.C. are two examples. In recent years, foreign "hunters have killed TWICE as many of these specatular rams as B.C. residents have and serious concerns about allowing foreign hunting here are being voiced by res. hunters.

IF, we "need" L.E.H. here in B.C. and I am NOT convinced that we do, from a conservation perspective, then we MUST totally BAN ALL non-resident, especially foreign, hunting of that species. We who OWN the resource MUST come first!

Given the increasing dominance of foreign, largely American, investment in and effective control of the B.C. hunting industry; it bodes ill for the average B.C. citizen in respect of access to HIS game in HIS region. This is NOT going to continue and I expect to see some "action" this coming season such as information blockades telling foreign hunters that they are NOT welome here.

If, the G.O.A.B.C. does not like this, well, let's see what the Vancouver media will make of a forign-owned GO outfit telling someone, like me, whose family pioneered in BC nearly 140 years ago, that their "rights" are greater than mine.......could be real interesting!

L.E.H. should be schitcanned, now!

Well, even though I'd like to kill one of those sheep someday.....I can't say I disagree with your stance. If non-res hunters are limiting the opportunity of res hunters then they should be strictly limited. A relatively small percentage of the moose tags here in NH are for non-res......but I still haven't drawn yet in my 5 years as a res.

A case in point is the huge Stone's ram shown in the "American Hunting" section a couple above this one. The GO concerned is "Upper Stikine River Adventures", and Jerry Geraci of Telkwa, B.C. is the nominal "owner" of this outfit.....YET, an ALABAMA phone number is given for them, on that sheep photo????????

The problem, per se, is NOT foreign hunters, as such, it IS the intrusion into BC and other regions of Canada by very well-financed American "investors" who then lobby the BC government, with considerable success, to severely restrict access by we BC citizens. They then sell OUR sheep on "hunts" costing 40K USD......phuque that!!!!

I do not like the idea of denying a polite, respectful guy like you the opportunity to hunt northern B.C..

We have preserved a large part of it as "wilderness" and it IS one of the VERY few large-scale true wilderness areas left on Earth.

However, unless the GOABC and BC Ministry of Environment make MAJOR changes in both policy and application thereof, we B.C.ers have no other option, that I can see, but to fight back by eliminating the GOABC financial base through banning foreign hunters here.

I hear you on the Moose, in my home region, it takes about TWENTY years for ME to be drawn and there WERE supposed to be about 20 tags for foreign hunters guided by GOs. NOW, THEIR "allocation" has mysteriously INCREASED to some 116 tags while WE must wait the "twenty". The GOS are allowed to build HUGE luxury lodges in OUR wilderness parks, yet, I cannot erect a pole tent frame legally.

So, either BC continues to become a "preserve" for wealthy foreign GOS and their foreign buddies, OR, we BC hunters who actually CARE and, as usual, are the few who take action on conservation HAVE to do something or lose our birthrights in our native land.

Typical of most North American jurisdictions, I guess.

Dewey I'm with you. Oh I did get my draw for moose this year. If there is not enough game in BC for the hunters in BC to harvest what they would like then there is not enough for foreign hunters. But we all know this is never going to change in fact it will get worse and soon the only ones taking game in BC will be foreign hunters as the lands to hunt will be closed off to us. Sad but my son will never have to opportuities to hunt that I enjoyed and allowed big bussiness to steal.