Wait, did you guys really delete that? I hadn’t even had a chance to write it down. Fine dining fifteen minutes from a good mule deer spot sounds awesome. You have to drive at least 25 minutes to get to McDonald’s from the Norris Road spot here in Bozeman.
Our proposal doesn’t only shift the harvest of mule deer from Nov. to Oct. It also splits the total number of hunters between regions and whitetail or mule deer and their corresponding seasons. There will be some drop in pressure on either whitetail or mule deer. How people will make their...
What Art is saying is something that needs to be understood. The value of the early season private land cow hunt is not so much that every hunter is going to have access to the cows on private. It is a tool that allows FWP to address the legal mandate for keeping elk @objective without making...
One benefit to making the antlerless season private land only is political in nature. It could allow FWP to fulfill the legal mandate to manage for objective and potentially help eliminate the late shoulder season.
Simple. Everyone’s expectations are adjusted to understand that we can’t all hunt antelope every year. We accept the fact that the resource is not adequate to sustain the pressure of OTC hunting. It is not that way for deer and elk because of the baseline expectation that we can hunt deer...
At some level the whole R vs NR conflict is a bit of a red herring.
At the most basic level the conflict is that the resource is experiencing more exploitation than it can sustain to produce a quality hunt and a healthy age structure, a reasonable buck/doe ratio and populations reflective...