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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
1983....15,000+ archery licenses. 2024.....60,000+ archery stamps if Im not mistaken.......a 4x increase in bowhunting pressure. Back then if we heard a bugle, it was likely a bull elk, Now if you hear a bugle, it is likely another hunter.....or two. Bowhunters are increasingly pushing elk... -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Like most issues in our country....follow the money. Everytime FWP uses "opportunity" ....try substituting "revenue" and see if it doesn't fit as well or even better. Like a lot of agencies, their fixed costs have grown so....personnel, infrastructure, long term obligations.....have got them... -
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School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country
Once I ignored some fresh griz scat....stepping over it and proceeding less than 50 yards when a giant head poked up behind a dead elk (not mine) at 20 yards. I slowly backed up until 50 yards and scattled. Fresh is fresh....like hours or less old tracks going down a trail you are on would...- Flynarrow
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country
I've spent 45 years bow hunting/fishing in griz country in MT, WY, ID, AK and Russia. A few close calls to learn from. I have been seriously charged and lost a nice moose to a grizz. Clean camp......no snacks in tent, no food cooked in camp, no food stored in camp. Hang your food 10 feet up...- Flynarrow
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Health of BLM lands
The "assessment" indicates only 56 million of 245 million BLM acres don't meet range health standards. Having traveled a lot of BLM ground, only 20% of BLM ground not healthy sounds like the "healthy standards" are very low or are biased by internal employees doing the evaluation. Observations...- Flynarrow
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- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Similar for elk in the Gila Wilderness in NM where I hunted, but the elk seemed to be missing. The local outfitter told me he couldn't find them either because it had rained in a hunting unit north and the elk had moved there because of the resulting greenup. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
October cows only on private lands sounds good BUT any landowner who is making money from elk or leased to an outfitter is not going to harass/shoot an elk herd off their private land before bulls are legal. A long time ago I gathered information from Colo and UT that had "ranching for... -
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Bitterroot Goats
I was somewhat involved in the transplant of goats into the Rattlesnake....had to be before 1988.- Flynarrow
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Bitterroot Goats
I also remember in the Rattlesnake which had 5 permits each year as I recall but the success rate eventually went to zero.....they had killed them all. Later they did a transplant. Management?????- Flynarrow
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Bitterroot Goats
Thanks for the date correction Buzz. I remember going to Jim Ford sometime in the 80s to beg him to reduce the 75 tags or at least break them up into drainages.....he wouldn't budge. I had come from Idaho in 1976 and Idaho was managing their goats conservatively at the time based on Lonn...- Flynarrow
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Bitterroot Goats
178 goats counted in this report .....about that same (1998) time FWP was giving 75 tags annually. Unbelieveably liberal seasons and then they wonder where the goats went.- Flynarrow
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
First, I have been hoping to get mule deer hunting out of November.....strongly support it. I mentioned the importance of habitat needs earlier in this thread. Mule deer are a seral habitat species. Mule deer need disturbance in forested habitats. It can be logged or burned or both. Having... -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Not to highjack a good discussion, but to add that mule deer need quality habitat. As a prime example, fire suppression on summer range has had long term detrimental effects on mule deer production in forested habitats "For example, in 2003, the Bulldog fire in southeastern Utah burned more... -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
The group just has to convince FWP that it was FWP's idea and then it might happen. Just look at the terrible history/results that citizen petitions to change something has actually resulted in change. -
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Pyramid Lumber in Seeley Lake, MT Closing
Zoning in the Bitterroot? Never. The Bitterroot is the best example I know of to show what happens to a pretty valley with no zoning.- Flynarrow
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
