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    Medical French Revolution

    Obviously your experience in the military was vastly different than mine. Want to receive some health care? Better be at sick call at 0500. Eyes red because you're feverish? Must be hungover, shitbag Trying to miss PT (physical training) because you're sick because everyone is afraid to go to...
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    Medical French Revolution

    lol. So you just have to give up your other rights and autonomy and you can get healthcare, got it.
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    New FWP Director

    "Director at Montana Department of Agriculture, is a 5th generation rancher, born and raised in Choteau. She graduated from California State University Sacramento and eventually returned to Choteau with her husband to raise their three children on the ranch. Christy served three terms in the...
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    Actual Weight of Meat - Can we be honest?

    For this years cow elk I carried out 185 pounds of bone-in quarters, rib roll, and neck meat. We ended up with 112 pounds of finished meat excluding shanks. Of that 112, 66 pounds were for grind. We went heavier than usual on grind as we are still holding roasts and stews from last year.
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    Miss fire.

    I have a Savage 111 with the accutrigger. Sometime towards the end of the pandemic, once Nosler got 30-06 ammo back in stock, I started to get misfires after never having one in the prior eight years. Typically one round out of a box of 20. I took the bolt apart and gave everything a thorough...
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    Oh, the irony!

    Debated the value of wading in here, but here we go. There is an argument that over time limitless energy will cap human population growth, decrease carbon emissions from current levels, and reduce environmental damage. The thought follows something like undeveloped nations and peoples use...
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    As they lay

    Montana elk b. Tumbled down the hill.
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    State Land in Jackson, WY headed for auction

    Top Wyoming officials OK Kelly Parcel sale to Grand Teton in 3-2 vote Opposition from the secretary of state and the superintendent of public instruction, who favored a land swap, fails to halt a deal that’s been nearly 15 years in the making...
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    MT Poll: (R) Gianforte, (D) Busse, or (L) Leib.

    An interesting takeaway for me is the large number of voters that supported both CI-128 and a statewide Republican. CI-128 passed with 58% of the vote, 336k to 247k. This result improves on the 2022 fetal heartbeat referendum which failed with 53% of the vote opposed to the measure. Gianforte...
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    MT Great Outdoors Conservation Easement approved by 3-2 Vote. Guess who voted No

    Semi annual reminder that Knudsen would rather see subdivisions and ranchettes than areas protected with a conservation easment or outright acquired.
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    Extreme hunting pressure in region 7.

    Thanks for taking the time to further explain the findings and their applicability to wild populations and mule deer, which is limited.
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    Extreme hunting pressure in region 7.

    Not to bring this thread back around to here, but in elk there is some evidence that bull age can impact recruitment. The sperms are likely equally potent, so no debate there. No idea if this carries over to mule deer as well. B&C has a summary of the elk work here...
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    What Makes A Fire More Beneficial Than Destructive?

    I really appreciate you sharing these pictures. Sure looks like a healthy aspen stand coming back in. I couldn't agree more with your comment on time scale. It seems we often tend to define things within our typical human lifespan and forget the timescale at which natural processes take place.
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    What Makes A Fire More Beneficial Than Destructive?

    Thanks for sharing this video on post-fire restoration. Looks like a very commendable project! Here is an interpretation of the fire severity (from MTBS) of the nearly 300,000 acre Whitewater Baldy Fire. To the original question regarding benefit, there appears to be significant areas of low...
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    What Makes A Fire More Beneficial Than Destructive?

    There's been some solid responses so far. My first thought is beneficial for what? Big game forage? Big game habitat? Ecosystems and landscapes? Future timber harvest? And across what time scale? Generally, it seems that increased heterogeneity across a landscape is beneficial. This would...
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    US Forest Service reduced funding for 2025 implications

    Looking at 2025, and possibly beyond, the US Forest Service is facing a significant decrease in available funds from recent levels. Some of this is due to supplemental funds expiring, some due to stagnation of appropriated funds while costs and expenses have increased, and others due to some...
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    Calf Mortality After Cow Dies

    I'm still looking for an applicable study. There are a handful of studies that look at additive v. compensatory effects of hunting and predation, but I have not found one that looks at the loss of the cow on calf survival. This study (amusingly, same authors as the seal study) looked at models...
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    Calf Mortality After Cow Dies

    I have no citation for you, and I'm not sure the research exists. And I realize most of this post is unhelpful... A quick browse of elk research suggests that more calf mortality occurs when they are younger, but the research focus is generally on predators. "We documented 57 deaths of...
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    Wilderness Area montage

    Selway Bitterroot Wilderness. View from Grave Peak Lookout.
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    Montana - Ballot Initiative would allow Montana Landowners to Hunt Without Permits

    Some closure to this thread. The initiative failed to collect the sufficient number of signatures. Mr. Schoening seems dismayed that some level of effort is required to amend existing law. From Montana FreePress: "Initiative 193, which would generally force the state to issue permits allowing...
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