Marjorie found this on internet…sort of relates to BB gun story…old news from 2010?
Hunting angers farm owner
When Alan Skeoch planted 10,000 red pine trees at the back of his hobby farm several years ago, he hoped it would encourage and protect wildlife.
Port Credit resident Alan Skeoch was shaken when he found several deer stands on his Erin Township farm last month. Unsuspecting deer are being lured onto his 25-acre property with a feeding trough. – Photo by Julie Slack
He never dreamed those very trees would instead be used by hunters to kill unsuspecting deer being lured onto the property with a feeding trough.
The Port Credit resident made the shocking discovery at his Erin Township farm late last month. During a visit, he discovered three 20-foot high deer stands affixed to his trees at the far end of his fenced 25-acre farm.
“They blend in, and I don’t get back there that often,” he said. “They’re almost invisible, some kind of ladder to the sky, with a perch for hunters, and an open blind that’s too high for deer to notice.”
Farther down, he found a metal feeding trough. He suspects it’s used for winter feeding because of a metal cover to keep out the snow. And a few feet away, he removed a grey plastic tracking device – with a small red light still flashing – attached to one of his trees.
“This is a serious trap for unsuspecting animals who are being fed, then killed,” he said. “This is our land that’s being used for killing.”
Skeoch, a retired teacher and author of Your Home on Native Land, a history of land claims in Canada, contacted the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Ontario Provincial Police’s Wellington County detachment. Neither returned his phone calls.