Canadian Province Considers Banning American Hunters Amid Trade War 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

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THIS WON’T BE GOOD FOR LOCAL OUTFITTERS
CANADIAN PROVINCE CONSIDERS BANNING AMERICAN HUNTERS AMID TRADE WAR

In what continues to be an escalating trade war between two typically friendly countries, another provincial Premier has entered the chat this month with a menacing idea of her own. While others have pulled American liquor off the shelves and threatened to cut off power to neighboring states, New Brunswick’s Premier has decided to float a ban on American hunters and anglers as the latest tariff bargaining chip.

Speaking in front of a crowd in the province’s capital, Premier Susan Holt ruled out the option of cutting NB Power exports into Maine while reaching for a different lever. Stating that the power ban would unfairly affect hospitals and the like, she called that type of move “exceptionally serious” and offered another one.

Americans, she said, come to the province “desperate to participate in our moose hunt or in our salmon fishing.” There are things New Brunswick can “preclude Americans from doing,” she added, along with a few other things it can stop sending south…

😮 Fargo hunter takes 394-inch green bull elk in North Dakota’s E3. 27-year-old Austin Streifel of Fargo punched a hole in a beautiful bull elk in North Dakota’s unit E3 last week with his trusty 7mm PRC. Once the animal was processed, he put the tape on the animal’s massive rack and green scored it at 394. After circulating some pictures on Facebook, the story of where the big bull was shot is what truly made the story travel.

Elk tags in North Dakota are scarce to say the least and are available via resident-only lotteries. Unit E3, which sits in the western Badlands, has been experiencing herd growth over the past few years, prompting Game and Fish to add a few additional tags to the region this year. And while herds and tag allocations are growing, most bulls taken in E3 and many other nearby units land well below this class. A 394-inch green bull is well above what most lottery hunters take in the Badlands with typical unit bulls land in the high 200s to low 300s.

With a mandatory drying period on the horizon, we expect the official Boone & Crockett figure to come in slightly lower, but a 394-inch green bull this early in the season remains an absolute stud and an outlier for a North Dakota public-land hunt.

🏹 Bear mauls archery hunter in Montana. An archery hunter was ambushed by a bear yesterday morning while he was getting set up on state land near Elk Creek and Haystack Butte, south of Augusta. The hunter was hurt badly enough to need hospital care but reports indicate that the injuries were not life-threatening, noting that the hunter was able to drive himself home before he was taken to Benefis Hospital. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is currently investigating and have not said whether it was a grizzly or a black bear that was involved in the attack.

FWP used the incident to repeat the usual Front-country rules, including reminders for hunters to pack meat out fast, don’t work a carcass at last light if you can help it, hang what you leave, drag gut piles at least 100 yards into the open, and walk away if a bear has already claimed the animal.

🗑️ Yellowstone crews pull record 20,000 pieces of trash from thermal basins. Well, it’s been a record year for Yellowstone’s geology team who just spent the summer fishing over 20,000 pieces of garbage out of the park’s world famous hot springs. Inside they found hats, AirPods, Polaroid pictures of the pools they just ruined, Pokémon cards, retainers, a snowshoe, and eighteen dollars in foreign coins people tossed in like they were standing at a mall fountain.

Morning Glory should have served as the warning label after people spent a century feeding it coins until the very blue hue that gave it its name faded beyond recognition. This summer, it seems as though that warning was ignored as throngs of visitors still treated the rest of the basin like a wishing well with better merch.

Wind swept ball caps made up the majority of the debris and can be an understandable accident in most cases. The unacceptable part is that the park still has to remind grown adults not to walk onto the crust to fetch them, which is one of the leading causes of irreparable harm.

🦫 This poor fella bit off slightly more than he could chew. These animals are masters at dropping trees, there’s no doubt about it.

But every now and then…

Oh, and one more thing…