The Fond Du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa has decided to have an off Reservation Moose Hunt in Northeast Minnesota. It will start Sept 24th and run until their proposed limit of 25 bulls is reached.
This is against the advice of the DNR due to low herd numbers.
How much does the band really care about conservation?
I would say not a lot in this situation. Unfortunately the Dnr also killed a lot of moose trying to do their collar study.
DT
“Legalized Racism”/ “Selective Sovereignty” at it’s best–again. 3 Casino’s can’t buy meat to feed the “elders”? ZERO RESPECT!!
Both District 8 Federal candidates ( Nolan and Mills) claim to be avid outdoorsman and hunters. Yet NOT ONE will have the guts to stand up to this ongoing in your face anti-conservation activity these Tribal Regimes push…GUTLESS on both sides of the party lines.
9/19
Moose Hunting Notice: After careful consideration of biological data indicating the moose herd has stabilized in recent years at around 4000 animals, and taking into account the traditions and cultural practices of the Band, the Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee has authorized a moose hunt this fall. The season will open Saturday, September 24 and run until Saturday, December 31st or until 25 bull moose have been taken, whichever comes first. In addition to the general moose hunt by tribal members, the Band will seek to take an additional 3 bull moose for community needs.
Came off the Rez website, http://www.fdlrez.com/
Did some quick googling and couldn’t come up with any population studies to determine how many are there, and how many typically are harvested percentage wise.
If these people can modernize in every other area of American living, why can’t they run a couple of beef ranches? For that matter, bison is available if they want to raise them! They don’t need to hunt moose. Period. There’s other ways to provide for “community needs”.
They’ll say its about tradition. So….tradition at the time of the treaty was stick bow, wooden arrows with cut-gut lacing for the fletching. Stone arrow heads. No atv’s and birchbark canoes. They had no blue eyed, blonde haired members back then so participants should be 100% native, no blends.
“Legalized Racism”/ “Selective Sovereignty” at is best–again. 3 Casino’s can’t buy meat to feed the “elders”? ZERO RESPECT!!
Both District 8 Federal candidates ( Nolan and Mills) claim to be avid outdoorsman and hunters. Yet NOT ONE will have the guts to stand up to this ongoing in your face anti-conservation activity these Tribal Regimes push…GUTLESS on both sides of the party lines.
Good point on the politicians. I have often wondered how many more votes a candidate would get if they added to their platform the fact that they would fight against the Native American Treaty (Maybe not all of it but at the very least dumb things like this that are obviously bad decisions to kill 25 bull’s when the population is so low…). Food for thought…RR
Who has population numbers for that region?
how many typically are harvested percentage wise.
The moose hunt was previously a once in a lifetime hunt (i.e. you were eligible to do it once, and never again) for Minnesotans. Due to the declining # of moose in the state this once in a lifetime hunt was ended in 2013, and is unlikely to ever be reinstated.
Who has population numbers for that region?
The moose population in northeast Minnesota has plummeted by 55 percent in the last decade, from a high of an estimated 8,840 animals in 2006, to about 4,020 moose in the most recent state survey released in February.
Copied from the article.
I’m curious what effect removing 25 bulls has on the population over, say, the next decade. I assume the number could be quite large, fathering both cows and bulls that would in turn create calves.
I’m curious if the dnr will grow a pair collectively and arrest these saps. Maybe a better question would be how removing 25 illegal hunters from the picture will affect the population over the next, say, decade. A dead moose cannot breed. Poachers in the slam protect the herd so it can breed including those 25 animals that would otherwise be dead.
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