I was channel surfing Friday night and stumbled upon an encore presentation of The Fifth Estate’s “’Til death do us part,” examining the 2006 shooting death in Newfoundland of Pennsylvania hunter Mark Harshbarger. As readers of this blog, as well as Outdoor Canada, may recall, our magazine first broke this...
Alberta has announced new provincial policies aimed at achieving a self-sustaining population of woodland caribou.
In recent years, predator-prey relationships have altered, leading to a decline in caribou numbers. To sustain and recover woodland caribou, the province will encourage all stakeholders to maintain and restore caribou habitat, and carefully manage populations...
Federal fisheries managers have increased estimates of this year's Fraser River sockeye salmon run to four million fish, opening up more opportunities for both anglers and commercial fishermen.
Barry Rosenberger, area director for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said while 30 million sockeye swam up the river last year "in...
A five-year study on the health of Lake Winnipeg shows phosphorus levels are so high they may soon be dangerous to human health.
Dr. Peter Leavitt’s study of Lake Winnipeg, commissioned by the province, shows that phosphorous continues to enter the lake from livestock farming, pollution from cities and through wetland...
And start doing something about it. An essay by ecologist David Schindler
In Outdoor Canada magazine’s Winter 2010 issue, we ran an exclusive investigative piece by Charles Wilkins entitled "Another Fine Day Afield." The 5,000-word article was about the controversial shooting death of American Mark Harshbarger during a 2006 hunting trip to Newfoundland. The Meshoppen, Pennsylvania, man was shot by his wife...
Too many moose are on the loose in Newfoundland, and wildlife official say they are destroying forests and habitat for other species.
As a result, Parks Canada will, for the first time, allow hunting for moose in Gros Morne National Park in western Newfoundland (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and Terra...
A toothy and aggressive aquatic predator, capable of breathing air and slithering across land, has put a scare into Prairie fisheries managers.
Recently the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment was tipped off about someone in the province selling the northern snakehead via an online ad on Kijiji.com. Now the provincial government is...
I last saw Bob Reguly just under a year ago at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show. He had been ill, his ticker giving him grief, and he’d lost a considerable amount of weight. He was so thin, in fact, I almost didn’t recognize him. But once we got...
Tomorrow morning gets off to an auspicious start when the latest inductees into the Canadian Angler Hall of Fame are officially honoured. The ceremony will take place during the annual fishing industry breakfast at the Spring Fishing and Boat Show at the International Centre in Toronto.
Yours truly...