Wolf bounty
 

Does anyone know if there’s still a bounty on wolves in Mackenzie County?


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Suggest you call the county office. Most of the Bounty offers in other Counties like Saddle Hills have quite a few rules around them. You need to make sure you do the stuff needed to qualify.

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Mackenzie County Corporate Office
4511-46 Avenue
Box 640
Fort Vermilion, AB
T0H 1N0
Phone: (780) 927-3718
Toll Free: 1-877-927-0677
Fax: (780) 927-4266
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Mackenzie County Sub-Offices
La Crete Sub-Office
9205-100 Street
La Crete, Alberta
T0H 2H0
Phone: (780) 928-3983
Fax: (780) 928-3636

High Level Sub-Office
10709-93rd Street
High Level, Alberta
T0H 1Z0
Phone: (780) 926-5600
Fax: (780) 926-4080

Zama Sub-Office
1025 Aspen Drive
Zama City, Alberta
T0H 4E0
Phone: (780) 683-2378
Fax (780) 683-2450

Bounty or not I shoot them on sight.

Its time for the Game Bios to get on board with a wolf reduction plan.Including a bounty if possible.

The prime Elk habitat along the eastern slopes is becoming more devoid of Elk as the years go by.

This year the Wolves will have it easy with the crusted deep snow.

I am planning on getting out for a week or so in Feb/March to try and kill a few.

I found out that our country just closed the bounty on the 17th


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[QUOTE=Kellykrahn;4098241]I found out that our country just closed the bounty on the 17th

Did the County give any reason why they closed it?

Mule deer are just gone in the SW where there are wolves. Its nothing like 20 years ago.
I should get drawed for mule deer next year. Don't know where to go.

Reason why wolf bounty ended
 

[QUOTE=7magtime;4101391]I just read why in the county minutes of the February 2020 report.
Lack of funds. 618 wolves tagged. Dollar wise...250.00 x 618 = 154,500.00

Those are good numbers. That’s a lot of wolves. Well done to all the wolf killers.

Lack of funds. 618 wolves tagged. Dollar wise...250.00 x 618 = 154,500.00

Obviously, success killed that program. That's a lot of wolves.

Grizz

618 wolves province wide or how big of an area were the wolves taken from?
Thanks.
Osky

That happened to me to I’m at pri 10 the zone I was saving for isn’t worth putting in for now. Off to the prairie zones I guess.

I believe this was in MacKenzie County in northwest Alberta. Approximately 30,900 square miles of sparsely populated boreal forest bordering British Columbia to the west and the Northwest Territories to the north.
To put it in perspective, it's about 1/3 the size of Minnesota, with a population of 11,171 in 2016. There's plenty of room for critters outside the cultivated areas.

Greenview county had the bounty on and off over the past 5-6 years.
Seems to be off now unfortunately.
We had cashed in on the $300 ea a few times.

TBark

One wolf taken for every 50 square miles if I did that correctly, is a pretty good take. I would guess there was a lot of trapping/snaring involved?

Osky

wolf Bounty
 

Just a side note, 'Average' bounty payed for wolves in 40's in BC was $165 or $3120 in todays money$$.

Yeah the way I understood it there was $XXX.xx in the budget for this program and the plan all along was to keep the bounty on until the money was gone.
There's one local outfitter and trapper who spends a lot of time killing wolves and he accounted for a very significant portion of those 618 dogs.