Turkey hunt starts Monday in Halton`s public forests

By Tim Foran
METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP
The first wild turkey hunt in Halton’s
public forests begins next week.
Approved by council earlier this year, the
Region will open up seven of its 14 forest
tracts in Milton and Halton Hills to the
province’s spring turkey shoot from
Monday, April 26 to Monday, May 31. During
the five weeks, hunting wild turkey by shotgun or bow will be allowed a half hour
before sunrise to 7 p.m., in accordance with
Ministry of the Natural Resources (MNR)
regulations.
The hunt will only be allowed in the
Region’s “outlying” forests, called the Acton,
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Conley, Elliot, Finney, Frank, Laking and
Snyder tracts. A map can be found at
www.halton.ca/forests.
Except for Laking, all of those tracts —
which make up 510 of the Region’s 1,645
acres of public forest — have hiking,
cycling, and equestrian trails. However, the
Region says a majority of the public use in
its forests takes place in the Halton Regional
Forest Complex (Britton, Robertson,
Mahon, Turner and Currie Tracts). The
Bruce Trail cuts through this area.
“Hiking and cycling users should not be
impacted as hunters will not situate themselves in proximity to well-used areas as the
game will not be in these areas,” added
Halton’s chief planning official Ron Glenn.
He said signs are now posted at each designated tract entrance specifying the particular hunt and permitted dates.
This will not be the first time hunting has
been allowed on municipal property in
Halton. For years, the Region has opened up
12 of its 14 forest tracts to the deer hunt, a
one-week period in the fall for hunters using
shotguns and a longer period for those with
bows and arrows. But it is the first time the
Region has allowed the turkey hunt.
“Wonderful,” Jim Hetherington, a member of the board of directors of the Ontario
Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH),
said of the allowance for the hunt in Halton.
OFAH provides the mandatory courses
new turkey hunters must take in order to
receive a Provincial licence. Hetherington
said much of the course is focused on safety
and he doesn’t anticipate any conflicts with
hikers using the free forests.
However, the head of the Bruce Trail
Conservancy is concerned the Province’s
allowance of wild turkey hunting in a small
public forest it owns in Halton could endanger hikers wending their way through the
woods.
“Hunting and hiking are not compatible
on a 50-acre tract,” said Beth Kümmling,
executive director of the conservancy.
As a precaution, both the Region and the
MNR suggest hikers and other recreational
users wear bright clothing when visiting
these forests during hunting season.
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Turkey hunt starts Monday in Halton’s public forests