Hunting gear and strategies you might want to use to bring home the venison in 2024. Manitoba’s general rifle season for deer starts Nov. 11 in most areas.
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Counting down to the deer hunt
The biggest hunting season in Manitoba kicks off in November: Gear advice and strategies to bring home the venison this year
U.S. blackbird research could help shield Manitoba sunflowers
Research out of North Dakota tracked red-winged blackbird behaviour during critical fall periods, which could help farmers in Manitoba develop effective strategies to protect harvests.
Getting ready for hunting: Here’s what you need to know for 2024 in Manitoba
From grouse to geese to deer, it's time to start thinking about hunting season
From grouse to ducks to deer, hunting is coming up fast. Here's what you need to know for the 2024 Manitoba hunting season
Giant Canada geese have gone wild in Manitoba
Canada geese make for fine hunting in Manitoba, but that wasn’t always the case
Giant Canada geese are seemingly everywhere and can be fine table fare for local hunters, but 70 years ago, they were borderline extinct.
The north is calling: all about the common loon
Loons are an icon of Manitoba’s wild shorelines
Most Canadians recognized a loon call, but how much do you know about the common loon?
Conservation counting on annual bird survey
Every year, around this time of year, volunteers in Manitoba head out to take a key bird count
It was the same every year. For 25 years, on one day at the end of June, my alarm would go off at 2:30 a.m. I’d slouch out of bed and hit the road to do my part for the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). My route was part of a network feeding numbers
Funds back anti-predation front-runners
Beef producers welcome new predation prevention program
Work from a three-year pilot project aimed at understanding the livestock sector’s predator problem has become provincial policy. On April 25, the federal and provincial governments jointly announced the Livestock Predation Prevention Program, funded through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. Why it matters: Manitoba livestock producers lose thousands of animals every year to wild predators.
Managing CWD means some deer have got to die
Animal removal, including hunting, will be key to nipping chronic wasting disease at the bud
British Columbia, like Manitoba, is in the early days of its fight against chronic wasting disease. Things are moving quickly, and they must. On March 13, the British Columbia government announced it would harvest deer in the Kootenays. The word came six weeks after CWD, a fatal prion disease in deer, elk, moose and caribou,
Lock targets on pike for spring fishing
Northern pike make for some memorable early season action as the open water season gets underway
It was a calm spring day as my son Mark and I made our way up a grassy creek, swollen with the yearly influx of meltwater. Our targets for the day were post-spawn northern pike or, in common parlance, jackfish or jacks. We were moving under paddle power, having previously made the mistake of motoring
Fishing rules in Manitoba for 2024
As open water season approaches, it’s worth reviewing some of last year’s important regulatory changes. Some of these haven’t quite sunk in with the angling community. I was recently talking to an old fishing pal, who was regaling me with the tale of a lovely pike he had caught and taken home for dinner. After