You can sign me up for limited entry if you see a path to get us there. No argument here. I just see where things are headed and this proposal is way better than the status quo.
The easiest fix is limited entry doesn’t seem to be much appetite for that. The plan trys to prevent that. Montanans love their opportunity. I predict 30 more years of bad hunting getting worse when this all shakes out.
I do think there is a scuz head element. Bucks that are so ugly you tend to look away. They grow to ripe old ages, with the nature of how hunters are selective during the rut. It can’t be healthy for our deer herd over an extended period of time.
I guess they aged a cow I shot in the Bitterroot too. Forgot that one. They wanted to look at the ivory instead of the bottom jaw I packed out for them. I left the ivories.
The only animal I’ve ever seen aged was at the Bonner check station probably around 2006 when I was going to college in Missoula. My buddy had shot a spike elk we drug it out because it was so small bodied. Looked like a couple of college kids were working the game check. They looked in its...
You can vote for either party and things stay the same. Progressively getting worse, maybe that is where we are headed but it would sure be nice to try a few things to prevent that.
I thought it was interesting when fwp official said most of the stuff will get passed right by if the committee isn’t more specific. I didn’t get to watch much though Tuesday after the holiday wasn’t conducive for watching a zoom meeting.
What difference does that make to wildlife and fish management? I respect what you have done for game management, far more than any democrat or republican. I have seen it both ways in my lifetime and as far as fwp management it doesn’t make a difference how you vote in Montana the wildlife suffer.
I am struggling with the outrage of a fishery administrator being dismissed vs what has happened to the wildlife side? I don’t want to hijack any threads but why are people suggesting we have to vote for democrats for better wildlife management when they were at the helm for half my life and...