Spotlighting is when people use bright lights to get an animal to stop in its tracks before they shoot it.

 

Wayne Lytwyn says if Doreen Sliworsky was just a couple feet to the side, she might have gotten hit.

"If there was a bunkbed in the room, and someone was sleeping in the top bunk, they would've caught the bullet right in the head."

 

He believes it is is a dangerous practice, because you cannot see what is behind your target, even if it is something large like a cow or a house.

 

Lytwyn says much of the province is not safe for spotlighting.

 

"Obviously, agricultural Manitoba is not a safe place. You know, be it at a provincial park or something, a gentleman said he was camping in the Duck mountains, and he said he had bullets fly by his head. So it's not safe there either. But we're still focusing more on agricultural Manitoba."

 

Lytwyn, along with Fred Tait of Manitoba Wildlife Federation, say more conservation enforcement is needed to keep people safe.

 

You can hear more from Lytwyn and Tait this coming Monday during the Al Morning Show on CKDM.