Posts Tagged ‘Conservation Officers’

6th Annual Bass Blast At Rainbow Falls This Saturday

6th Annual Bass Blast At Rainbow Falls This Saturday

TERRACE BAY, ON  –Officers from the Schreiber OPP detachment will be helping kids cast a line this summer during the 6th Annual Bass Blast, Saturday, July 6. Organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Nipigon District, and Schreiber Ontario Provincial Police, the event will take place [Read more]

35 Charges Laid by MNR As Result Of Deer Hunting Enforcement Blitz

35 Charges Laid by MNR As Result Of Deer Hunting Enforcement Blitz

Deer Hunt Enforcement Blitz Leads To Charges & 2 Deers Seized Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers issued a number of warnings and charges while conducting a five-day enforcement blitz during the deer hunt in Northeastern Ontario. The blitz took place from November 5 to 9 in [Read more]

Moose Hunt Enforcement Blitz Leads to Charges and Seizures of Animals

Moose Hunt Enforcement Blitz Leads to Charges and Seizures of Animals

Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers laid almost 160 charges and seized illegally harvested animals, including 29 moose, during an enforcement blitz in the northeast. The targeted area extended from the Hudson Bay and James Bay coasts in the north, to the French and Mattawa rivers in [Read more]

$2,500 In Fines For Offences Related To Illegal Sale and Harvest Of Baitfish

$2,500 In Fines For Offences Related To Illegal Sale and Harvest Of Baitfish

Three tourist businesses in the Wawa area pleaded guilty to offences related to the selling and harvesting of baitfish. Mar Mac Lodge and Camp 88 were fined $800 each for unlawfully taking baitfish and $300 each for selling baitfish without a commercial bait licence.  White River Air was fined [Read more]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: MNR & Lake Nipissing

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: MNR & Lake Nipissing

*Please remember with ALL Letters to the Editor on OntarioNewsNorth.com it is the Readers’ Responsibility to verify facts and research the information. OntarioNewsNorth.com neither confirms nor denies the information contained in Letters to the Editor. Opinions offered are those of the author [Read more]

TORONTO BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ENJOY A TRIP TO NORTHERN ONTARIO

TORONTO BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ENJOY A TRIP TO NORTHERN ONTARIO

From July 16th to 20th, 2012, Horwood Lake Lodge hosted the annual Kids and Wardens Fishing Adventure. This marks the sixth straight year the Ontario Conservation Officers Association (OCOA) has worked with the lodge to provide a trip of a lifetime to members of a Boys and Girls Club from a large [Read more]

Outdoor Burning Restricted In Northeastern Ontario

Outdoor Burning Restricted In Northeastern Ontario

McGuinty Government Implements Restricted Fire Zone A Restricted Fire Zone Order has been declared for Northeasterm Ontario in an area north of the French and Mattawa rivers, east to the Quebec border, and then to the western boundary of the Northeast Region.  The order is in place to reduce the [Read more]

RESTRICTED FIRE ZONE ORDER

RESTRICTED FIRE ZONE ORDER

CLICK HERE for map Outdoor Burning Restricted In Northeastern Ontario McGuinty Government Implements Restricted Fire Zone A Restricted Fire Zone Order has been declared for Northeasterm Ontario in an area north of the French River, including all of French River Provincial Park, east to the Quebec [Read more]

2012 North American Safe Boating Awareness Week

2012 North American Safe Boating Awareness Week

READY, SET, WEAR IT! – YOUR LIFEJACKET WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE THIS SPRING! The Ontario Conservation Officers Association (OCOA) wants to take this opportunity to join with the Canadian Safe Boating Council (CSBC) to encourage everyone to think boating safety this spring. As tens of thousands of [Read more]

Marathon Woman Fined for Illegally Shooting Deer

Marathon Woman Fined for Illegally Shooting Deer

Fined $1,500 For Illegally Shooting Deer A Marathon woman has been fined $1,500 for deer hunting violations. Trisha Brackett pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000 for discharging a firearm from and across a road and $500 for shooting a doe without a permit. The court heard that on October 29, 2011, a [Read more]

Safety First During the Deer Hunt

Safety First During the Deer Hunt

The Ministry of Natural Resources will be conducting heightened enforcement activity in the northeast region this fall as part of a safety-first campaign. Between November 7 and 19, which coincides with the regular gun season for deer in much of the northeast, conservation officers will be checking [Read more]

Safety First During Moose Hunt

Safety First During Moose Hunt

The Ministry of Natural Resources will be conducting heightened enforcement activity in the northeast region this fall as part of an annual safety-first campaign. In particular, during the regular gun season for moose from October 8 to 22, conservation officers will be checking hunters regarding [Read more]

Ontario Conservation Officer of the Year, 2011

Ontario Conservation Officer of the Year, 2011

PETERBOROUGH, ON –The Ontario Conservation Officers Association (OCOA) is pleased to announce that Randy Pepper was presented with a number of awards as the 2011 Conservation Officer of the Year.  The presentations were at the annual OCOA convention held in Sudbury this past weekend.  Randy [Read more]

Pukaskwa National Park reopens backcountry

Pukaskwa National Park reopens backcountry

HERON BAY, ON – Pukaskwa’s backcountry has been reopened following a seven-day closure. The closure was in place as a result of an incident in which a lone black bear injured a visitor at Simon’s Harbour in the park on August 5, 2011. Parks Canada staff and Ontario Ministry of Natural [Read more]

SUSPECTED AGGRESSIVE BEAR DESTROYED AT PUKASKWA NATIONAL PARK

SUSPECTED AGGRESSIVE BEAR DESTROYED AT PUKASKWA NATIONAL PARK

HERON BAY, ON – Parks Canada staff and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Conservation Officers have located and destroyed a female bear approximately two kilometres from the site of the August 5, 2011 incident during which a park visitor was injured by a lone adult black bear in the park’s [Read more]

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