Moose Licences and Validation Tags
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General Hunting Information & Forms
- 2013 Hunting Regulations Summary
- Buy a Licence, Renew your Outdoors Card, Enter a Big Game Draw
- Proposed changes to wildlife-related licences and permits: The Ministry of Natural Resources is implementing a plan to streamline licences, permits and authorizations to make it easier, faster and more efficient for individuals and businesses to access government services. A number of these proposed changes may affect hunters and hunting related activities. To find out more about these proposed changes, please refer to the full Modernization of Approvals - Regulation Proposal Notice on the Environmental Registry Some changes have now come into effect. On July 1, 2013, approval processes changed for these activities NEW
- Wildlife Management Unit maps
- Outdoors Card and Hunting Licence Options for Residents of Ontario
- Outdoors Card and Hunting Licence Options for Non-Residents of Ontario
- Guidelines for Hunters of Migratory Game Birds
- 2013 Important Dates and Telephone Numbers for Hunters (PDF, 65 kb)
- Field dressing, transporting and processing game (PDF, 286 kb)
- Landowner Consent Form (PDF, 20 kb) - Hunters wishing to hunt elk on private land; or deer on private land on Barrie Island, Cockburn Island and Manitoulin Island (WMU 43A, 43B and 44); or moose on private land in WMU 65, are required to carry this MNR Landowner Consent form signed by the landowner.
- Landowner Consent Form (as above but in HTML accessible version)
- Letter of Consent for Hunter Apprenticeship Safety Card Applicants Aged 12-15 (PDF, 16 kb) - Young people, aged 12 to 15, who wish to enroll in the Hunter Apprenticeship Safety Program must use this form to satisfy the written permission requirement.
- Letter of Consent for a Hunting/Fishing Outdoors Card and Related Hunting Licences for Applicants Age 15 Only (PDF, 16 kb) - Fifteen year olds who wish to apply for a hunting version Outdoors Card must use this form to satisfy the written permission requirement.
- Ontario Hunter Education Program Consent Form (PDF, 61 kb) - Effective January 28, 2008, those under 16 years of age wishing to participate in a Hunter Education or Turkey Hunter Education Course, must have written permission of a parent or guardian. This form is provided for your convenience. Prior to taking a course, the completed form must be given to the Hunter Education instructor, or to OFAH staff on the day of the Turkey Hunter Education Course.
- Mandatory Questionnaire for Snapping Turtle Harvest -- Hunters are now required to report their snapping turtle harvest to help support management of the species (PDF, 88 kb)
- Special Purpose Account Annual Reports 1999-2008 (PDF, 2 mb)
- Special Purpose Account Annual Report 2009-2010 (PDF, 67 kb) NEW
- Special Purpose Account Annual Report 2010-2011 (PDF, 73 kb) NEW
Wild Turkey
- Fall Wild Turkey licences go on sale September 3 at ServiceOntario centres and licence issuers NEW
- Spring and Fall Wild Turkey Harvest Report Worksheet (PDF, 108 kb)
- 2012 Spring Wild Turkey Harvest Statistics (PDF, 32 kb)
- 2012 Fall Wild Turkey Harvest Statistics (PDF, 41 kb)
- Wild Turkey Management Plan for Ontario, 2007 (PDF, 3 mb)
- For information on how to take Ontario's Wild Turkey Hunter Education Course please visit the website of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
- Harvest Reporting and Harvest Results All information hunters provide is important!
Black Bear
- Framework for Enhanced Black Bear Management in Ontario
- Black Bear licence tags go on sale July 1 at licence issuers
- Second game seals for black bear are available at select ServiceOntario centres starting August 1. Learn more.
- Black Bear Hunters - Get a Bear Hunter Crest! (PDF, 307 kb) NEW
- Harvest Reporting and Harvest Results All information hunters provide is important!
- Ontario Moose-Bear Hunting Tourism Industry Program NEW
Moose
- Moose Resource Reports
- Moose Draw Results Available Online August 1 or by calling 1-800-288-1155
- 2013 Moose Seasons (PDF, 56 kb)
- 2013 Moose Quotas (PDF, 48 kb)
- 2013 Moose Guaranteed Group Sizes (PDF, 53 kb)
- Tentative Resident Moose Season Opening Dates for 2014 (PDF, 17 kb)
- When will I receive my licence and game seal?
- Non-Resident's Application for a Moose Validation Tag (PDF, 24 kb)
- Non-Resident Moose Hunter Affidavit (PDF, 17 kb)
- Chronic Wasting Disease website with updates on regulations for hunters using attractants containing any body parts of the deer family (e.g. urine) and for anyone who wants to bring carcasses or high risk body parts of deer, moose, caribou or elk into Ontario.
- Fact sheet: Rules to Protect Ontario from CWD (PDF, 37 kb)
- Moose Program Review
- Fact sheet: Moose Tag Transfers - Information About the Moose Tag Transfer Policy (PDF, 240 kb)
- Adult Moose Validation Tag Transfer Application for Tags Transferred to Designated Alternates (PDF, 15 kb) You must take this form to one of these ServiceOntario centres
- Fact sheet: Know the Difference: Be Sure You Can Identify Moose Calves, Yearlings and Cows (PDF, 99 kb) NEW
- Take the Moose ID Quiz to test your ID skills! (opens in a new window)
- Harvest Reporting and Harvest Results All information hunters provide is important!
- Ontario Moose-Bear Hunting Tourism Industry Program NEW
Sunday Hunting - September 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 NEW
- Effective September 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014: List of Municipalities in Southern Ontario Where Sunday Gun Hunting is Permitted (PDF, 52 kb)
- Effective September 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014: Colour Map Showing Where Sunday Gun Hunting is Permitted in Southern Ontario (PDF, 1.6 mb)
- Effective September 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014: B&W Map Showing Where Sunday Gun Hunting is Permitted in Southern Ontario (PDF, 1.2 mb)
Deer
- Antlerless Deer Draw Results Available online August 8 or by calling 1-800-288-1155
- 2013 Application Process for Additional Deer Seals (PDF, 286 kb) This year a total of 26,215 additional deer seals are available in participating WMUs. You can purchase an Additional Deer Seal from July 16 to July 31 online or over the phone at 1-800-288-1155. Any additional deer seals remaining unsold when the telephone and Internet sales period ends on July 31 will be offered by participating ServiceOntario centres starting on August 1.
- 2013 Antlerless Deer Tag Quotas by Wildlife Management Unit (PDF, 28 kb)
- 2013 Controlled Deer Hunt Validation Tag Quotas by WMU and Season (PDF, 29 kb)
- Tentative Resident Deer Season Opening Dates for 2014 (PDF, 19 kb)
- Tentative Controlled Deer Hunt Season Start Dates for 2014 (PDF, 17 kb)
- Chronic Wasting Disease website with updates on regulations for hunters using attractants containing any body parts of the deer family (e.g. urine) and for anyone who wants to bring carcasses or high risk body parts of deer, moose, caribou or elk into Ontario.
- Fact sheet: Protecting Ontario from CWD (PDF, 37 kb)
- Feeding Wildlife
- Harvest Reporting and Harvest Results All information hunters provide is important!
Elk
- Elk Draw Results Available Online August 2 or by calling 1-800-288-1155
- Tentative Resident Elk Season Opening Date for 2014 (PDF, 16 kb)
- Elk Hunter Mandatory Questionnaire (PDF, 88 k)
- Elk Management in Ontario
- Chronic Wasting Disease website with updates on new regulations for hunters using attractants containing any body parts of the deer family (e.g. urine) and for anyone who wants to bring carcasses or high risk body parts of deer, moose, caribou or elk into Ontario.
- Fact sheet: New (2010) Rules to Protect Ontario from CWD (PDF, 37 kb)
- Landowner Consent Form (PDF, 20 kb) - Hunters wishing to hunt elk on private land; or deer on private land on Barrie Island, Cockburn Island and Manitoulin Island (WMU 43A, 43B and 44); or moose on private land in WMU 65, are required to carry this MNR Landowner Consent form signed by the landowner.
- Harvest Reporting and Harvest Results All information hunters provide is important!
Falconry
- 2013 Information for Falconers Applying to Capture a Wild Bird of Prey (PDF, 508 kb)
- 2013 Application Form for Falconers Applying to Capture a Wild Bird of Prey (PDF, 145 kb)
Instructions: Print out this form and fill in by hand OR fill out the form on the computer then print it out. Sign the form. Mail the completed application form, or scan/e-mail the completed application form, to be received by March 29, 2013 to:
Twyla Douaire, Licensing and Draws Clerk
Fish and Wildlife Services Branch, Ministry of Natural Resources
300 Water Street, 5th Floor North, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 8M5
twyla.douaire@ontario.ca - Fact Sheet: Falconry (PDF, 34 kb)
- Results of 2012 Falconer Collection of Wild Birds of Prey : In 2012 the Ministry received a total of 35 applications from falconers who wanted to be considered for one of the 25 authorizations to capture wild birds of prey. Of 25 authorizations issued to falconers provincially in 2012, 15 falconers successfully collected a bird of prey. As a requirement of the authorization, falconers reported the following captures during 2012:
Cooper's Hawk 5
Red-tailed hawk 9
Sharp-shinned hawk 1
Wildlife (Other)
- Review of the Status and Management of Double-crested Cormorants in Ontario (2006)
- Strategy for Wolf Conservation in Ontario (PDF, 158 kb)
- State of the Resource Report: Wolves in Ontario (PDF, 1.3 mb)
- Coyotes in the Community
- Wolves in the Community
- Living with Wildlife
- Environment Canada's Migratory Birds Hunting Regulations for Ontario
- Fact Sheet: Botulism in Fish and Wildlife (PDF, 43 kb)
- Fact Sheet: Falconry (PDF, 34 kb)
