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sv tribune march 15 1989 cs offensive started against bounties by marion strebig federation of ontario naturalists i have never thought of the fox who occasionally skirts the ravine and lopes by my office window as a nuisance nor the coyote i saw last month crossing a geld and disappearing into the brush nor the beaver who sometimes cuts on my land and the keening howl of wolves last summer in algonquin park even though the sound made my scalp tingle and my adrenaline flow filled me with elation but i do know that these and other animals often arouse quite different feelings when they come into direct conflict with property owners sometimes foxes eat chickens and both coyotes and wolves are accused of attacking livestock and wolves of depleting deer populations the beavers industrious work sometimes floods property and its appetite for saplings may in clude carefully nurtured ornamentals my own encouters with these animals have sometimes been exasperating for several springs a beaver dam flooded a section of our road but eventually the beavers moved on leaving a pond which is gradually filling with sedges and marsh marigolds and steeplebush in the spring frog song is deafening and later on birds like the tree swallow the common yellowthroat and the eastern kingbird nest here while i have always tried to adopt a live and let live at titude in dealing with animals around my home a persistent porcupine who had decided that the open space under my cottage would make a perfect snoozing place severely tested my adherence to this philosophy when he proved impervious to repeated prodding with a long very long stick to shouting and banging together of kitchen pots and even appeared to enjoy the quantities of mothballs spread under the cottage i had to resort to sterner measures i had the open space blocked off with heavy wire which was buried to a depth of a foot and a half in the ground but por cupines are armoured not only with spines but also with unflap pable complacency it made repeated attempts to return to its lair but the wire held and finally even a procupine gave up the live and let live ap proach requires patience in genuity and a sense of humor for the most part authority has opted for quicker and more drastic solutions in dealing with socalled nuisance animals up until 1972 the province paid wolf bounties when this practice was discontinued municipalities were still permitted to pay their own bounties under the municipal act after 1ss0 when wolves and coyotes were declared fur- bearers and therefore came under the protection of the game and fish act certain municipalities continued illegally to offer bounties for certain animals mainly wolves foxes and coyotes for a long time the minister of natural resources was content to turn a blind eye to such payments but on feb 17 1989 things changed on that date in a joint memorandum to the clerks of all municipalities in ontario the minister of municipal affairs john eakins and the minister of natural resources vincent ker- rio effectively terminated the practice of bounties as of oct 31 1989 in their memorandum they recognize that especially as habitat continues to disappear animals and people will come in to conflict and that there will be complaints of property damage or stock losses however they stress the inef fectiveness of the bounty system in solving specific problems the federation of ontario naturalists has taken this posi tion for several decades and was instrumental in the repeal of the provincial wolf bounty in 1972 in the autumn 1988 issue of our magazine seasons writer and biologist rd lawrence advanc ed strong arguments for the government to enforce the law against bounties this article was widely circulated to mpps and government bureaucrats the old bounty system issued a blanket license to kill certain animals on sight over a wide area but it has not and cannot solve specific problems the intent of the ministry is to set up alternative methods of dealing with complaints such as using the ministry of natural resources predator control of ficers from district offices and local trappers to deal with specific problem animals the ministers memorandum goes on to say it is expected that suitable programs will be in place by october 31 1989 municipalities which continue to have bounty bylaws in effect beyond this time should expect to face the legal consequences let us hope the passing of the bounty system also marks the passing of an official mindset which has so long governed wildlife management the im position of human judgements of good and bad on animals invitation to our water seminar clean drinking water is a luxury we used to take for granted today clean drinking water is the worlds fastest growing business the business of the 90s fortune magazine learn how you can have all the clean drinking water your heart and body desires plus learn how you can easily earn 20 100000 parttime in todays fastest growing business the clean 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