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Webber’s Lodges – Off to the first All Canada Show in Dallas, Texas.

February 17, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

We’re hitting the road again. We are glad to be participating in the first All Canada Show in Dallas, Texas. This should prove to be yet another All Canada Show success and we are looking forward to meeting future clients at this show.

We also want to thank Travel Manitoba who has been a major sponsor of the All Canada Shows this year. They have done an amazing job and marketing and advertising Manitoba as Canada’s premier fishing and hunting destination, and home of the Manitoba Monsters.

Come on down this Friday thru Sunday to the Home of JR, the South Fork Ranch at 3700 Hogge Road, in Parker Texas, only 40 miles out of Dallas. We would love to help you plan your next Trophy Caribou or Moose hunt, Waterfowl Shoot, orFly In Fishing Adventure.

We hope to see you there!!

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N.W.T. bans hunting Bathurst Caribou in winter range

February 11, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

The CBC News did an interesting report in December of 2009 stating that the North West Territory Government is banning hunting of the Bathurst Caribou Herd in their winter range.

This comes as a shock to many of the caribou outfitters in the area who had their allotment of caribou tags pulled from them almost overnight. Many of these outfitters depend on these tags for a good portion of their yearly income, and are now faced at looking into other sources of revenue such as northern lights viewing.

The N.W.T government has set aside $150,000 to local outfitters who are being affected by this, to help them redevelop their business to focus on other hunting options. However some outfitters say that with all the changes that are happening they feel it will be difficult to get clients to commit to coming to the territory.

According to studies done by the territorial government the Bathurst herd has declined from 186,000 in 2003 to 32,000 in late 2009. The ban also applies to aboriginal and non-aboriginal hunters.

When asked about the declining caribou herds in the western arctic, Doug Webber, owner of Webber’s Lodges in Manitoba said, “The jury is still out on what the exact situation is with some of the caribou herds in the western Arctic, but hopefully, if numbers are declining, they can recover quickly with careful management.”

Other caribou herds that are still holding their numbers.

“The Central Canadian Barren Ground caribou that we hunt, known as the Kaminariak herd, has a recently surveyed population of 340,000 animals for which less than 500 tags are issued,” said Webber, who has been in the outfitting business for over 40 years. “Outfitters hunting this caribou herd are seeing excellent numbers of big bulls and reports are that the condition of them has been exceptional in the last couple of years. That’s an encouraging sign for all concerned. This is a very good time to be hunting in Manitoba for trophy barren ground caribou.”

To read the complete article at CBC News please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/12/18/north-caribou-ban.html

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Webber’s Lodges Sport Show Circuit – Next Stop, Germany!!

January 27, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe that January is almost over. We’ve already been to two very successful sport shows. Both the All Canada Chicago Show, and the SCI Reno Show were once again excellent shows to participate in and we can guarantee we will be back to those two sites in 2011.

The first week of February, which is just around the corner, is going to be another busy one for us. First up is the Jagd & Hund Sport Show in Dortmund, Germany. This seven day show from February 2nd to 8th is going to be full of hunting and fishing outfitters from around the globe. Webber’s is proud to be part of the Manitoba contingent traveling to Germany with Travel Manitoba and promoting the new Manitoba Monsters program.

February 4th to 6th we will be in Reno, NV for The Sheep Show. Again, this is another world class show put on by the Wild Sheep Foundation.

We invite anyone to come down to these, or any of the sport shows we will be attending to talk to us about a Trophy Caribo JUE0C8~1.JPG u Hunt, Manitoba Trophy Moose Hunt, Waterfowl hunt, or a fly in fishing adventure of a lifetime.