More moose to bite da dust!

[Lee Borgersen]

Bois Forte, Grand Portage Bands Authorized To 10 Moose This Fall.

                                                                 
            Where does it end or will it end?


 
 October 25, 2016

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ST. PAUL — Two Minnesota Chippewa tribes were granted a permit Friday by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources allowing them to harvest a total of 10 moose this fall, DNR officials said.

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The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa will be permitted to take five moose each under a DNR permit that allows the taking of animals for educational and cultural purposes, said Jim Leach, director of the DNR’s division of fish and wildlife.

“The permit has been issued,” Leach said Friday afternoon. “The permit is for each band, for ceremonial and educational purposes, to take five moose each within the 1854 ceded territory. They have until the end of the calendar year to take the moose.”

The ceded territory covers much of Northeastern Minnesota.

The bands had approached the DNR earlier this fall seeking permission to harvest moose for subsistence and cultural purposes, said Steve Merchant, DNR wildlife populations manager. The bands and the DNR negotiated the number of moose could be taken, Leach said. He wouldn’t specify how many moose the bands had sought to take.

“Let’s just say it was negotiated down,” Leach said.

Under an agreement between those bands and the state, they may not hold hunting seasons for a species unless the state is holding a hunt for that species, too. The DNR has not authorized a state moose season since 2012 amid concerns about a decreasing moose population. The state is not holding a moose season this fall.

The Bois Forte and Grand Portage bands are paid $1.6 million each ("show me da money") by the state annually under the agreement, for which they agree to give up some of their treaty rights to hunt, fish and gather on lands ceded to the U.S. under an 1854 treaty. The bands’ hunting and fishing seasons are conducted under a hunting framework administered by the 1854 Treaty Authority based in Duluth.

Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa took 25 bull moose this fall under the band’s hunting season structure. The Fond du Lac Band is not a party to the 1854 Treaty Authority and does not receive payments from the state in return for restricting its hunting and gathering rights. As such, it may hold seasons for a wildlife species whether the state of Minnesota holds a season or not.

Minnesota’s moose population has dropped from an estimated 8,840 in 2006 to about 4,000 currently, according to annual aerial surveys.

A call to the 1854 Treaty Authority was not immediately returned Friday.


               

A moose looks up at passersby as it grazes in a pond along the Gunflint Trail north of Grand Marais, Minn.,

                                   


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[glenn57]

this crap makes me pretty  !!!!!!!!!  i'm not a person who thinks of himself as prejudice but when this stuff comes up its  hard to comment without sounding that way. this soveriegn nation sh!t, special, different rules for select groups is a bunch of . sometimes i think this is just a way to throw more fuel on the fire. and im talking both sides here.

[gophergunner]

Our iconic moose herd is in bad shape, and on a decline.  The tribes are choosing to do this for no other reason that to flaunt their bogus "rights".  It's worked wonders on Mille Lacs with the walleye population, hasn't it?  This crap needs to stop now.

[Rebel SS]

I've got a great idea what we need to have an open season on....those  !!!

 

[K.O.W.]

And they don't want us hunting/trapping wolves, yet they can kill swans in places and I believe in SD someplace they can take bald eagles for ceremony purposes or something was it 5 a year ? Not good for public relations when we're not hunting moose because of the decline yet they do and likely by spotlight and pickup truck like their deer hunting. It's the issue for many, they are using a lot of technology and slob tactics to fill their freezers, yet the casino's are full, no 1 takes a stand anymore. The Amish hunt by our rules and regulations. Maybe Donald Trump will help level the playing field. What I can't quite grasp is with the massive casino dollars.........that they can't rear and raise their own walleyes and find a tract of reservation land to fence in and put cattle or buffalo. When I think of wanton waste I picture the native Americans running a herd of buffalo over a cliff, they're not small, the weather might be warm, how did they in a timely manner get lets say 250 of em back to homebase ? Where's the outcry from animal rights groups over this moose hunt ?   

[LPS]

And that is why I won't spend another dollar in a Casino.  20 years ago I would stop in and donate some moola in the name of fun but haven't since then.

[LPS]

The stupid Minnesota Nice came back and bit us in the ass....

[glenn57]

And that is why I won't spend another dollar in a Casino.  20 years ago I would stop in and donate some moola in the name of fun but haven't since then.

I haven't spent I penny in them and won't! When they start paying taxes I'll think about it. And I'd probably be pushing up daisies by then.

[dew2]

When I think of wanton waste I picture the native Americans running a herd of buffalo over a cliff, they're not small, the weather might be warm, how did they in a timely manner get lets say 250 of em back to homebase ? Where's the outcry from animal rights groups over this moose hunt ?

Heres a read. I had to look at many that left out the fact bison were killed for purposes of genocide on native americans. Thats a totally different subject of willing genocide!! and the means and ways!
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/usaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-USA14.htm

[K.O.W.]

Yes it is 2016 and were plodding along. I won't spend a cent there either, not even the buffet buy 1 get one free that everyone talks so highly about, it's still costing you a 20 in gas to get there so it isn't completely like free lol. What's crazy is my best friend in college was a native American and one of the best guys I've ever met by far ! So it's a person by person basis for me really, but we'll let Donald Trump clean up this treaty business.

[gophergunner]

And that is why I won't spend another dollar in a Casino.  20 years ago I would stop in and donate some moola in the name of fun but haven't since then.

We live 10 minutes from the casino and never go there.  I will never leave one penny there for them.