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    Bill barring permits in MO Breaks and other districts pops up

    Well, since the shoe-in political party's up for sale to the highest bidder, maybe all of us deplorables pool our money together to buy some clout for the next session. Apparently that's all ya have to do these days.
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    Bill barring permits in MO Breaks and other districts pops up

    I just called Josh Kassmaier, the sponsor of this bill, and talked to him for a good 10 minutes about it. To put it mildly, he's not informed on any of the sportsman's issues against this bill and says he wants to pass it, but is open for input. Things we discussed is that this will kill some...
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    Non-resident outfitter license (MT) Bill is up for hearing 2/2/2021 (SB 143)

    The part you're not mentioning is your $$ that stays in MT to lock up private land, outbid Block Mgmt, and ultimately tie up more access for yourself. I don't see any small town bars, restaurants, and hotels doing that or demanding us to change the rules for them. In fact, they're actually...
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    Non-resident outfitter license (MT) Bill is up for hearing 2/2/2021 (SB 143)

    As a resident, public land, DIY guy, one of my concerns is when we start commercializing wildlife and reserving tags for the wealthy, what happens? Outfitters know they can take on more clients because they've got their tags reserved just for them. What do they do then? Go knocking on doors...
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    Montana Republican Primary

    And let's not forget Gianforte's letter to the FWP demanding they continue with shoulder seasons. If we want to see MT continue catering to the big money, access-blocking landowners and pay-to-play type hunters and not give a rat's ass about the average public land hunter, that's exactly what...
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    How to Improve Montana's Block Management

    Those are some excellent points Randy. Couldn't be happier to see you taking this on as it feels like we're at a crossroads with all the talk on a new EMP, shoulder seasons, etc. I like your ideas on changing the funding allocation to benefit more valuable and sought after properties. Let's...
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    FWP Sidestepping Public Comment Period?

    I don't think an EMP is going to help prevent crop damage if the ranch shuts off access. Doesn't matter if there are 10 tags or 1,000 tags, the result will be the same for that landowner. The EMP should however, prevent the accessible areas from being overrun by hunting pressure and void of...
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    FWP Sidestepping Public Comment Period?

    EMP speaks to inaccessible elk during hunting season, not spring green up. If you hunt 417, you'll find out these 2,000 some elk they based tag numbers off are no where near accessible.
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    FWP Sidestepping Public Comment Period?

    This is wildlife mismanagement at it's finest. If the FWP would follow the EMP, the population counts would be under objective, thus leading to no shoulder seasons, no doubling tag quotas, and no shooting bulls in February. The area biologist says they don't exclude harbored elk from the...
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    MT Late Season Bulls?

    Game damage hunts should only be allowed to ranches enrolled in Block Management. Give the landowner a choice, either allow access and receive help when needed or shut off access and deal with the consequences.
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    FWP Sidestepping Public Comment Period?

    This is the boiling point of not following the elk management plan and IMO a preview of what we have to look forward to in a number of units in the years ahead. 95% of the elk in 417 sit on the Horse Ranch all fall, untouchable unless you can pony up $10k for a bull. Those elk should be...
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    Elk Shoulder Season article

    Interesting. FWP must just pick and choose where they want to actually manage elk then. You'd think with all the talk over the past few years regarding shoulder seasons and access issues in units that clearly are over objective from inaccessible elk, you'd at least hear an explanation why it's...
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    Elk Shoulder Season article

    Brett French brought up page 55, not anyone from the FWP. In fact, I've never, not even once, heard anyone from the FWP reference page 55. I mean, why would they want to shed light on the one tool they have at their disposal to actually manage elk? Isn't it easier to just stay blind to it and...
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    Alternatives for public elk hunting access

    How about pinpointing the most obvious private land harbors and looking at them on a case by case basis to see what we can do? Case in point is the N Bar in the Little Snowies. There's excellent elk habitat bordering the west side, but the FS has a maze of roads cutting through every direction...
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    MT Snowies elk

    I've emailed both the FWP and Forest Service about closing the roads on the NF adjacent to the west side of the N Bar. Heck, if we can't get to those elk, we might as well at least try to entice some of them off it. Right now, there's hardly a spot you can get over a mile away from a road...
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    Alternatives for public elk hunting access

    Good points here. I should've clarified that I didn't mean the NR's should shoulder the load, these were just some ideas in addition to raising resident fees, which was already stated. It's crazy to think how cheap a resident elk tag is. I can buy that tag for almost half the cost of what my...
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    Alternatives for public elk hunting access

    Lots of good ideas here. One common thread is we're going to need to find ways to raise money to pay for the access and habitat improvements. A couple ideas on that: 1) Require anyone booking a hunt with an outfitter to pay an additional $1-2k to the state, maybe in the form of an outfitter tag...
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    Elk Shoulder season meeting

    What gets my blood boiling is John Vore's quote that his department is out of ideas and doesn't know what else to do. Well, here's a hare brained idea: follow the god damn elk management plan for once. It says right in there on page 56 that privately harbored elk should be excluded from...
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    MT Elk Shoulder season legislation

    So, if a participating ranch is adjacent to 100k acres of national forest, does that open the whole thing up? Unbelievable. All this in the day and age of advertising $8k private land bull hunts and ranch property values rising by the number of elk they can claim are there year round. If you...
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    MT Elk Shoulder season legislation

    I sent the BHA link and my legislator got back to me right away. After a couple more email exchanges sharing info discussed on here, she seemed very much on our side. Please reach out to your legislator, it takes 5 minutes!! We need to get this mess turned around right now, speak now or forever...
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