If you read his response to my post, I believe he’s stating that those numbers aren’t straight forward and don’t make that part of the discussion black and white. For example, elk numbers are up significantly. But he stated much of that growth is on private land and/or in the central or...
Roosevelt, Pinchot, Muir, Marshall among others were wealthy individuals. No one would argue they were corrupt, in fact many would say they were some of the founding fathers of modern conservation. But they were civic minded individuals. They held a sense of duty to the places and critters...
I'm totally thinking out loud here, but is there any thought that the commissions deserve a significant role in this blame game? I don't mean that so much as an accusation to any particular commission or commission members, but more so as a long term side effect of a (or multiple)...
That could be. The hunting getting worse could be attributed to a lot of things. I know the family friends we have in SE MT have spoken before about the change in leased acres and the inability to hunt land they've hunted historically because of it. And too me, that's what's caused one of the...
May I ask what's gotten worse, outside of the politics? Not trying to play "got ya", just trying to understand your perspective and the metric you're using when you say "worse".
Please, correct me if I'm wrong on any these long term population trends.
Elk - overall numbers are up since 2000...
In ND we get to hunt these for the beginning portion of the waterfowl season, depending on weather. They are fantastic eating birds if you leave the fat on, its a tasty white fat. Not all of them have enough fat to be pick and sometimes they can be loaded with pin feathers. But a majority can...
You really think that is sound reasoning? That 350 million people should be able go “build a house on it”, willy-nilly, and that is somehow the measurement of ownership at an individual level?
My gut tells me you haven’t given this a lot of thought.
Carcasses or parts of the carcass of a possibly infected animal can go to the processor or taxidermist, contaminating along the way.
What is the alternative? Idaho can and should work with taxidermists to get tests from animals that come in. That might actually be a net positive.
Meat from...
Speculation on my part, but I feel confident the reason is that a majority of smart, reasonable people who would make good leaders don’t want to subject themselves or their families to the vitriol, hatred, and attacks from the “other” side. And that goes for both sides. It prevents good...
I’m not trying to scare folks or be some sort of alarmist. I think at this point, with what we know, it is safe to say that CWD crossing to humans is a relatively low risk. Even if it does or has, it’s a very low number of people affected by it.
But…. They said the same thing about Mad cow...
I see some pop up in ND and SD on bismanonline from time to time. I think there was a litter in ND earlier this year, but it didn't look like they were real formal breeders. Other than that, I think it's JC boykins or something in SD is the only breeder I know of Nevermind they're out of Ohio...
Does anyone else find it kind of comical that huntquietly/hunters4access has been really critical of Aron Snyder and Joe Rogan, and then a Kifaru fanny pack named after Joe Rogan ends up in their raffle.
It’s not a big deal and I don’t mean that as a critique, but it made me chuckle. I wonder...
The public trust, that's what this argument is about at its core. Make no mistake about it. Arguments about what a landowner wants for access is a distraction from the heart of the issue. Letting them have first swing at the elk tags is a backwards way of going about it. They are a...
I have acknowledged almost all of that, mostly in my very first post.
I think "eplus" can stay. But let New Mexican residents sit down and decide what split they want for the total number of elk tags. Not the split after the landowners take what they want, but the split on whats available...