Skip to content

Limited entry deer hunt for Grand Forks?

15712grandforksGFGmoslin3110302
Coun. Chris Moslin says that a limited entry deer hunt would be a good way to control the population.

Coun. Chris Moslin says that a limited entry hunt would be a good way to control the deer population.

Moslin says that he is trying to make a space for this conversation in council, and is looking ahead to 2012.

“My worry is that being an election year no one is going to want to talk about it,” he says. “It’s not a popular subject to talk about.”

The city councillor says that a cull is part of an overall strategy to keeping the deer population manageable.

“Hunting is not the only way we’re going to solve this problem but it is one part,” he says. “Deer are hunted right now in the city by bows, we don’t know how many deer are taken and we don’t know where they are taken with that hunt.”

There is a general open season on deer in Grand Forks, so with permission from the private property owner, deer can be hunted within the city during that season around September and part of October.

What Moslin would like is for the city to have more control over the deer taken and who the hunters are.

“I’d like to know who the hunters are, I’d like to know that they’re qualified,” Moslin says, adding that he wouldn’t want the limited entry draw to be given to unqualified hunters.

He would also like to see co-ordination between hunters so that they could space out the time and locations of the hunt.

Moslin would like the city to keep track of how many deer are taken.

The City of Cranbrook recently passed a motion asking the Ministry of Environment to conduct a deer cull.