Permission to Hunt on Farmland ?

[Jay-mo]

Our good hunting land is posted at every approach. This fall had guys drive over half mile in right to our hunting blind/shack, snoop around, maybe even take a potshot, who knows. Just saw tracks in fresh snow, never caught them on the cams.
Not sure a law would make any difference to these idiots.

[Misterjade9]

Clubroot issue going to raise its head on trespassing?? It should

That is absolutely correct. That will be why next fall hunting will be done on foot only on our land. Now if I could only get the elk,deer and moose not to trespass and how do you stop everybody and their dog from riding across your fields in the fall after harvest?

[the big wheel]

Neighbor claims custom combiner brought it to one of his fields not sure how you'd know for sure but it does make one think about having other people on your land.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

From my perspective, you guys have this issue backwards. The deer, and especially moose do so much damage here that if every successful hunter drove over a half a mile of crop to kill one, I'd be money ahead. Clubroot is showing up in this county in places where there is no logical explanation involving machinery or vehicles, they have concluded that it must be the wildlife tracking it in. It is my mission to enable any willing hunter to eradicate these overpopulated pests. And it is fish and wildlife's mission to release so few hunting tags that I regularly have more moose per quarter section than there are tags for the entire area. Yet you guys are turning down hunters willing and able to help get rid of these vermin?

I've asked, and as a landowner, I have no legal means of protecting my crops from these trespassers. I am entitled to feed them year round, watch the moose traipse randomly through standing ripe canola crops every morning and evening like clockwork, shattering everything they touch, let them eat all my second cut alfalfa before the cows can get there, and make combining flattened crops a nightmare. I welcome any hunter legal or otherwise who can help. Had a CO stop by a couple years ago, all excited with himself, he had caught some successful moose hunters without permission, and wanted me to press charges, No, I said, please go back and thank them ( they did have indirect permission, and contacted me afterwards).

I've had no bad experiences with hunters. One guy who comes out every year insists on going on a scouting mission before hand, and brings a chainsaw to cut up any deadfall off of fences just to help out. I don't ask for anything in return, but often receive meat. By November the ground is frozen and crops are off(supposedly), I allow them to drive if they want to, just respect gates, no problems. Had an early hunter this year(legally permitted) shoot a moose just outside a field. Moose ran into canola crop a couple hundred yards before falling. He called me up all apologetic, wondering how to retrieve it. I was a few miles away with combine but made the trip to go open up a path to the moose for him.

First thing I do when I buy new land is remove all the no hunting, no trespassing signs. I have people hunting, trapping, cutting firewood, collecting mushrooms, berries, game camera images, go quading, snowmobiling, sledding, snowshoeing, horseback riding etc. And the funny thing is, these same people are always willing to return the favour multiple times over, no one causes me any trouble when my activities inconvenience them, and they all respect the land they are permitted to use; wonder if there might be a connection there?

I'm also trying to eliminate every tree to eliminate the enemies habitat and hiding places, in hopes that they will then go eat someone else's crops.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

As usual, I spent all that energy and frustration ranting about my enemies, the deer and moose, and I'm late to the party and no one reads it...

[makar]

I am with af5 but the asshole factor ruins it for everyone, a neighbor drove by his standing canola field this fall to see pickup in his crop with the tailgate down quad ramps up and tracks down his crop, hours later him and a rcmp were sitting there watching the quad return who claimed it wasnt their truck.

[Misterjade9]

Yes AF5 you are right we have the same problem here, the elk wrecked two oat bags this fall before I could get them picked up. The neighbor who used to have elk takes his old fence and fences the bags in the field. I want hunters to come but also have to be mindful of the clubroot issue, as much damage as the wildlife does clubroot could potentially do more.

[grassfarmer]

AF5 I certainly agree that F&W are unnecessarily reluctant to hand out tags based on a false understanding of what numbers really are. That was the situation with bears in extreme SW Alberta where an area is just crawling with them. Here it is the elk tags - very few given out over a huge area as they don't acknowledge there is even a resident population yet a herd of 200 crossed my land early in the winter heading for their wintering grounds. Saying that we've had more damage on our corn from a raccoon family than anything - these little f#$$%^#s can strip the kernels off a lot of cobs!