P.A. man fined for hunting on First Nations territory
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A man caught illegally hunting on Indigenous land faces over a $1,000 in fines and has been told he cannot own a hunting licence for two years.
Doug Risling, 59, appeared at Prince Albert Provincial Court Monday morning, and entered guilty pleas to three separate tickets from an incident last November on the One Arrow First Nation.
Risling, who did not receive permission to hunt there, told the conservation officer he thought he was hunting in a provincial forest when he set up a trail cam and stands to bait white tailed deer. Risling’s lawyer Scott Wolfe said his client later apologized to the band and has promised to do a more thorough job in the future checking maps.
Crown prosecutor Matthew Miazga noted in court this was not Risling’s first offence and said he should be considered a high risk. In 2013, Risling received a ticket for taking too many fish, and February, 2015, killed an elk on private farmland near St. Louis.
