Won't let me outffit....
I have been a sask resident all my life born and raised on a farm bordering Greenwater Lake Provincial Park. We own 3 quarters of land bordering the park that is excellent hunting ground and another 6 quarters scattered around the area that is also good land. I recently wanted to apply for a Hunting outfitting lease for deer/bear/ and possible geese. The first blow was that i was told i cannot outfitt on my own land. I need to get a chunk of the provincial park to outfitt in.. Now why is this. I own the land and have had deer and elk eating on my crop all year then when hunting season comes an outfitter back in the Park from my land makes his money off of animals i have been feeding all year long. I then asked for a chunk of land out of the Park just south of my land to outfitt on. I was told that the land had been all snapped up 10 years ago. Well on this one i call bull chit. An outfitter here has an absolutely huge area and he cannot acess the area i want because there are no public trails cut into that area....The only way to acess this chunk is to enter on my land. So this area is just goin to waste. The environement office said that there is no way i could prove that he wasn't using a little area, well its not a real little area probably 6X3 miles. So then he tells me the only way to get the area is to buy the outfitter out. The outfitter moved in here wasn't a local resident and bought this area when it cost him only a few hundred dollars for it...Me, lived here all my life have to pay 200 000 dollars for this area now because it has become a hot commodity. This is not fair at all. These guys bought the areas for next to nothin and are selling it for a pile. The also bought up as much as they could to prevent anyone else from getting it...They aren't using all of the area but they have it just so nobody new can outfitt beside them and give them competetion. Anyway you look at it this is not right, but i guess this is how saskatchewan promotes new business, and young entreprenuers. sorry but i am a little upset......any thoguhts guys?