Huron Expositor, 2009-01-07, Page 17The Huron Expositor • January, '7, 2009 Page 17
Farmer has concerns about hunting in his fiel
Dan Schwab
Staffa farmer Rob Gardiner was
appalled recently to find a hunter
dragging a gutted deer across his
property just metres from his cat-
tle barn.
Gardiner, who has between 200-
300 cattle on his property, wasn't
only concerned with contamina-
tion.
•
He'd given no permission to any
hunters any time last week to en-
ter his 200 acre property.
He was surprised when he saw a
hunter carrying the carcass across
his snowy land, some of which is
covered by bush. cass, and be led to his cattle barn, ask permission from the landowner
Gardiner says he isn't sure if the He's also upset that such strict to hunt on the property. An agree -
hunter shot and killed the, deer on rules are imposed on farmers in ment should also be made about if
his land or on a neighbour's adjoin- terms of disposing of deadstock, the hunter will bury the entrails
ing property. which must be removed from the or remove them from the site after
When he found the hunter on his property as soon as possible, while shooting a deer.
land, he said the man was going to some hunters feel it's acceptable to The failure to ask permission
climb a cattle -fence to get back to gut a deer on someone else's prop- may result in a charge of $65 for
the vehicle waiting by the road for erty and leave the unwanted or- the hunter, if he or she is convicted
him. gans to rot. of violating the Trespass to Prop -
Gardiner didn't want him to climb "As farmers we can't get away erty Act.
the fence or carry the bleeding deer with it, so why should they?" he Waite says the same charges
close to his cattle. says. "As farmers, we're liable for would normally apply for someone
He not only worried about con-
tamination, but also about if a coy-
ote were to find the gutted entrails
of the deer somewhere on his land
and follow the trail of blood, which
the hunter left dragging the car -
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County, where Staffa is located,
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