The Big Three: Manitoba’s Top Three Waterfowling Destinations Manitoba is home to some of the best waterfowl hunting in North America with many outstanding hunting opportunities available to duck and goose hunters. The good places to hunt waterfowl in Manitoba are far too numerous to mention in one short article but here are my top three personal favorites with a few honorable mentions. A Marsh Fit for a King – the Delta Marsh Royalty and movie stars flocked to the famous Delta Marsh in the 1940s and 50s in pursuit of the King of Ducks, the Canvasback. Delta Marsh is…
Author: Rob Olson
Rob Olson
Rob Olson M.N.R.M. Rob is a wildlife and fisheries manager with over 30 years of experience in the field of wildlife research and natural resource policy. Olson conducted his graduate degree research through the award-winning Delta Waterfowl Foundation Research Program on waterfowl nesting ecology. After graduate school, Rob worked for many years in environmental consulting and the non-profit conservation world before working in the Manitoba government as Director of Fisheries and Wildlife. Nowadays Rob is a private wildlife and fisheries consultant working across western Canada. Rob is an avid outdoor enthusiast who lives for spending time fishing and hunting with his family and friends in the forests, lakes and fields of Manitoba.
Access for All If you are a reader of Hooked, I bet I can safely assume that you are passionate about the outdoors. Fishing is probably so important to you, that it would be hard to imagine not being allowed access to your favorite lakes and rivers anymore. I suspect many of you also hunt. If you are like me, the places you fish and hunt are probably so special to you, that the memories of going to those lakes, forests and marshes define who you are. If you close your eyes, you can probably imagine what your places looks…
The Ecological Corridor program is stopped: lessons learned and a path forward. Mercifully, the Assiniboine West Watershed District has made the decision not to sign a contribution agreement with Parks Canada for a $1 million grant to deliver programming within the federal government’s Ecological Corridor program framework. This ends a months-long, divisive battle between a rapidly expanding group of local agricultural producers, known as the Manitoba Land Stewards Inc. (MLS), and the Assiniboine West Watershed District (AWWD). The conflict has raged on since last Fall, with the intensity increasing to a fever pitch leading up to an eventful Town Hall…
Editors Note: This opinion piece was printed in this Saturday’s Issue of the Winnipeg Free Press and supplied to me by the Manitoba Wildlife Federation. A conservation disaster is quietly unfolding in rural, agro-Manitoba with the potential to set private-land conservation and reconciliation back many years, all fuelled by the federal government’s current approach to land protection. In 2020, at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, participating countries, including Canada, approved a global goal to protect 30 per cent of the planet’s lands and oceans by 2030 to stem the loss of biodiversity (30…
A Campaign to Protect the Rights of Licensed Anglers and Hunters By Rob Olson, Manitoba Wildlife Federation If you are a reader of Hooked, I bet I can safely assume that you are passionate about the outdoors. Fishing is probably so important to you, that it would be hard to imagine not being allowed access to your favorite lakes and rivers anymore. I suspect many of you also hunt. If you are like me, the places you fish and hunt are probably so special to you, that the memories of going to those lakes, forests and marshes define who you…