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HFTF FACT SHEETS
HFTF FACTS SHEETS are now available for download in the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF files require a reader to view and print. If you would like to download this file but do not have a PDF reader, one is available free-of-charge at
FACT SHEET # 1: General Information about our Organization
FACT SHEET # 2: Adult First Time Hunter
FACT SHEET # 3: Youth First Time Hunter
FACT SHEET #4: Spring Black Bear Hunt
BEAR RESEARCH
Hunting may help bear population
Study shows adult males kill fewer
cubs when regulated hunt is on
BOB WEBBER The Canadian Press
July
27, 2006
EDMONTON
Regulated bear hunting may improve a newborn cub’s
chances of survival, suggests new research from the
University of Alberta. The finding contradicts theories that hunting creates
higher rates of ursineinfanticide as adult male
bears, chased from their regular range, kill cubs they
have not sired.
The research, being reviewed for publication by the
bear
biology
journal Ursus, found that cubs had a 25-per-cent better
chance of survival in an Alberta area where black bear
hunting is allowed than in a neighbouring region where it is
forbidden.
Biologist Sophie Czetwertynski holds two bear cubs.
Czetwertynski’s study, conducted in two regions of
northern Alberta, suggests bear cubs may stand a better
chance of surviving in areas that allow bear hunting.
“We compared a hunted population and an unhunted
population,” said Sophie Czetwertynski, a PhD candidate at
the University of Alberta. “In the hunted population,
we had much higher cub survival and higher productivity of
females.”
Some biologists argue that hunting forces adult male
bears to move from their accustomed ranges. That disrupts
the social structure and brings males into
contact withfe males they wouldn’t
normally meet.
The theory is that if the female has cubs, the new
male will kill them and breed with her himself — what
biologists call sexually selected infanticide.As well,
rampaging males cause sows to drift toward poorer habitat
to avoid them, leaving herself and her cubs with fewer
resources.
The conclusion is that hunting hits bears with a
triple whammy: the shot bears, the cubs they
kill before being shot and the poorer reproductive success
of the females who try to dodge them. But Czetwertynski’s study suggests it isn’t so.
She monitored 290 bears over four years in the Cold
Lake Weapons Testing Range on the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary,
which does not allow hunting, and the adjacent area around
Conklin, which does.
She found 83 per cent of cubs survived in the hunted
area while the comparable figure in
then on-hunted area was 66 per cent. As well, females in
the hunted area began reproducing earlier.
“It doesn’t mean we can prove that (infanticide) is
not occurring, but it does seem that it just doesn’t have
that strong an effect.”
Czetwertynski said the two study areas
have the same quality of habitat
and about the same volume of industrial activity.
She suggests the Cold Lake bears do more poorly
because their population density is almost too much for
the land to support.
“The effect of (density) seems to overpower the effect
of (infanticide).”
The issue of bear hunting in Alberta has
been controversial for years. The
province recently implemented a three year ban on the
spring grizzly hunt after a survey suggested the number
of the bears was considerably lower than previously
thought.
Czetwertynski doesn’t oppose hunting. In fact, her research
was partly funded by
the Alberta Professional Outfitters Society. She has also
worked as a bear hunting guide in
Quebec, although she has also worked for groups such as
Defenders of Wildlife.
But she says management decisions regarding bears
should be guided by science, not by political concerns.
“We really want to know what the effects are. But if
the hunt is going to be stopped, we want it stopped on
ecological perspectives.
BLACK BEAR
RESEARCH & THE FUTURE OF HUNTING
Article
by: Dr. Bruce J Mincher
PDF FILE 210 MB
FIND
OUT HOW OLD YOUR BEAR IS!
If
anyone out there would like to find out how old their
bear is, here is how to do it. The only lab I
could find is one in Montana - used by F&W
also. Their website is:
www.dougmacaulay.com/matsonlab/index.php.
You
need to apply for a CITES permit - contact Jean
Robillard of the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa at Jean.Robillard@EC.gc.ca
- they send you the forms. No charge for this.
Once
you get the forms you have to go to the local F&W
office for an Export Permit ($21.40) and take your CITES
one with you. They need the sex, date of kill,
species, your WIN# and Tag#, name, etc.
You
need to pull one of the small teeth immediately behind
the canine of the upper jaw to send. Go to the website
for full instructions. They charge by the tooth
but is cheaper if you get 4 or more people
together. You should be able to have all
your teeth put on one F&W Export Permit as well but
will need separate CITES ones for each bear.
There
is a $55 US fee to the US Fish & Wildlife Service as
well that will be added to your invoice UNLESS you know
someone in the government ranks then this fee is waived.
Information
courtesy of Brent Watson - Grande Prairie
LEARN THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLACK BEARS & GRIZZLY BEARS
Courtesy of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
MINISTER CALLS ON
ALBERTA COMMUNITIES TO BECOME
"BEAR SMART"
May 18, 2006 PDF File: 132 KB
FACT SHEET #5: Alberta's Hunting License System
FACT SHEET #6: The Draw System
FACT SHEET #7: Hunting with Firearms
CANADA FIREARMS CENTRE
http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/notice-avis/default_e.asp
Minister Day Announces Measures to
Enhance Public Safety
and Firearms Control
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/media/nr/2008/nr20080514-eng.aspx
Frequently Asked Questions: Fee
Waiver, Amnesty Extension and POL
Regulations
http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/notice-avis/qa_e.asp
Fee Waiver & Refund
http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/notice-avis/waiver_e.asp
FACT SHEET #8: Subsistence Hunting
www.albertametis.ca/understandingtheharvestingagreement.aspx
FACT SHEET #9: Alberta's Outfitted
Hunting Industry
FACT SHEET #10: About Alberta
Hunters
FACT SHEET #11: Wild Game Foodbank
Donation Program
- 2007
FACT SHEET #12: Disabled Hunter
FACT SHEET #13: Understanding the
Hunt
FACT SHEET #14: Ladies - Let's Go
Hunting
FACT SHEET #15: From the Field to
the Table
FACT SHEET #16: Hunting - Good
Recreation Value for Your Dollar
FACT SHEET #17: Wildlife Diseases
FACT SHEET #18: Métis Harvest
HUNTING STATISTICS
For Immediate Release: 12/10/2005
Wellington,
Colorado -
While all hunting accidents are tragic,
especially when non-hunting bystanders are
involved, the recent ABC News report about a
young woman in Pennsylvania being struck by a
bullet is an extremely rare type of accident. In
2002, the most recent year for which hunting
accident statistics are compiled, there were
approximately 20 million hunters afield. They
logged 850 total accidents, 15 involving
non-hunting bystanders. "Any hunting injury is
one too many. Our hearts go out to Ms. Burns and
we wish her a speedy recovery. Our 70,000
volunteer hunter education instructors are
working hard to train all hunters to be safe and
responsible citizens. Incidents like this
strengthen our resolve," said Eric Nuse, Executive Vice President
of the International Hunter Education
Association.
More facts about 2002 hunting incidents with
injury:
.
20,000,000 total hunters
.
850 total accidents (all types)
.
761 non-fatal accidents
.
89 fatal accidents
.
514 two-party accidents
.
333 self-inflicted accidents (3 unknown)
Hunting accidents have declined by more than 30
percent over a 10-year period.
For more information contact:
Eric Nuse
Executive Vice President
International Hunter Education Association
3725 Cleveland Avenue, P.O. Box 490
Wellington, CO 80549
Phone: (970)-568-7954
Fax: (970)-568-7955
eric@ihea.com
IHEA Mission:
To continue
the heritage of hunting worldwide by developing
safe, responsible and knowledgeable hunters.
For Immediate Release: 12/10/2005
A report
regarding youth incidents and adult statistics
for 2002 has just
been posted on the IHEA website at
http://www.ihea.com/docs/Incident_Reports1.
It is listed as 2002 Incident
Data and is in PDF format for easy access to
all; we hope that you will find
this report helpful.
Is that a Fact?
How many times have you heard someone say those words, "Is that a fact?" I can remember by Dad saying that to me when I was late for my curfew and my well thought out and earnest explanation didn't quite make the grade in terms of being believable. We find ourselves challenged in this manner, both within and outside of the hunting fraternity as well. Often we hear "coffee shop" talk about the way it really is, how tough the hunting regulations are, how scarce the critters are or how badly someone behaved. Because someone said it, we often just accept it at face value.
At Hunting For Tomorrow, we've heard these comments too and we paid attention to what people were saying, but also what wasn't being said. It is apparent that we need to provide better information and tools to both hunters and non-hunters to better equip them in discussions about general or specific matters related to hunting.
"My daughter is 14 and wants to hunt big game with a rifle; can she?"
"Who would I contact to learn more about the various
hunting organizations in Alberta?"
"How many black bear are there in Alberta?"
"It takes me 5 years to get drawn for anything; why is that?"
We can help with these questions and many more. Our first step was to develop a series of Fact Sheets. These one-page information sheets provide a series of concise, easy to read accurate information about various topics. They also include specific contact information for other sources.
The Fact Sheets listed above are those that are
completed to date.
So, why is this information important to you? Firstly, it's a source of information that we hope you will use as a handy reference. Secondly, these Fact Sheets were developed as a direct response to some of the comments that we heard from the public opinion consultation process. For example, many people said that a barrier to people hunting, was the complexity of the hunting regulations. While, simplification of the regulations will always be a goal, in the meantime, how can we help minimize the impact of this? One of our responses was to make the information on how to get started and who to talk to for help more available, easier to access and understand.
These Fact Sheets are available from various license vendors, any of the Hunting for Tomorrow coalition members or by downloading the documents in pdf format as indicated above.
Take the opportunity to pick up a few copies and the next time someone asks you a question, hopefully you can give them, "Just the facts."
Another Good Example
of Hunters & Anglers Contributing to
Conservation Across Canada
Industry Canada
sources estimate that 8 Million people of all
ages fish in Canada.
Canadian anglers
spend $6.7 Billion annually (according to Dept.
of Fisheries and Oceans figures for the year
2000).
Between 1984 and
1999, anglers and hunters directly contributed
more than $335 Million to wildlife habitat
conservation.
In 2000 alone,
Canadian anglers devoted 1 Million volunteer
days to cleaning-up habitat and enhancing the
fishing environment.
Canadian hunters
donate close to one million hours per year to
habitat conservation.
Hunter licence fees brought almost $600 Million
to government treasuries.
This information
was provided by:
The Canadian Sportfishing
Industry Association
427 Pido Road,
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 6X7
Telephone:
877-822-8881 Fax: 705-742-4038 E-Mail:
info@catchingfish.com
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