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Relax, Everything is Going to be Okay!
Yep. We were already barely scraping by in terms of staffing public lands, and most workers work for pennies, frequently just as seasonal employees.- MT22
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Relax, Everything is Going to be Okay!
Good for you. I've never received anything either. So technically I suppose you and I have both increased our net worth by more than a million times over. I didn't say Trump hasn't done well for himself; his real success was ultimately selling himself as a previously successful businessman via...- MT22
- Post #747
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Relax, Everything is Going to be Okay!
Have you not increased your net worth by more than 17x what you inherited? I certainly have, by a wide, wide margin. Do you find that number (17) impressive?- MT22
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- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Relax, Everything is Going to be Okay!
Pretty silly thing to ask for, as it's a worthless metric without the context of where that net worth started. Trump, for example, inherited a bit over $400 million from his father's real estate empire, and that's not to touch on his other inherited advantages. I'll go out on a limb and guess...- MT22
- Post #726
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Montana Legislator wishes to Join Utah land grab, Resolution.
Amen- MT22
- Post #68
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Anyone know what causes this?
A phrase that will haunt my nightmares- MT22
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- Forum: Shed Antlers
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Yellowstone Park in June, any suggestions on where to stay?
I'm in the park about 100 days a year, know it like the back of my hand. As your trip approaches feel free to message me and I'll share any recent news on where the critters are hanging out.- MT22
- Post #61
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Yellowstone Park in June, any suggestions on where to stay?
As someone else said, the park is huge, so stay in multiple places. For wildlife, the best place to be is Cooke City, MT (near Lamar Valley) or Roosevelt Lodge (inside the park). After that, Gardiner, but get up early to beat the train of tour vans. For geysers and such, West Yellowstone...- MT22
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Why coyotes need managed
Doesn't look that way, at least not by the data they provide. The "40%" drop they refer to is just them dividing the 2021 harvest numbers by the arbitrarily chosen highest year ever (2011), even though their data collection started in 2005. The obviously more honest comparison is beginning to... -
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I need to see the science on this one
Really good questions. I remember one pretty old study that was on sheep and was set up pretty well (proper control and whatnot). It found that hunting at the right time of year (immediately before lambing season) helped some. Coyote population measured in the summer never changed, so it was no...- MT22
- Post #35
- Forum: Other Small Game
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Why coyotes need managed
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Why coyotes need managed
Well, we've been killing them for a coupe centuries and they are more widespread and numerous than at any other time in their history. So I guess the evidence somewhat supports your hypothesis. ;) I know we chatted about this in the other thread, but coyotes are (as best we know) completely... -
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I need to see the science on this one
Not above capacity, though as the original topic of this thread points out, there is some decent evidence that hunting tends to drive population levels up to some degree, so intense or erratic hunting of the population may cause momentary overreaches.- MT22
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- Forum: Other Small Game
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I need to see the science on this one
Not quite. Rather, they took an initial hit from wolves, then recovered, and now that things have stabilized coyotes respond to a high density of wolves much like they'd respond to a very high density of coyotes - their reproduction numbers decrease (in terms of litter size and subordinates not...- MT22
- Post #29
- Forum: Other Small Game
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I need to see the science on this one
Yellowstone coyotes took an initial hit from the wolves, but have rebounded to 75% or so of their pre-wolf numbers. Drastic changes in how many you see are likely more tied to behavioral changes than signals of abundance.- MT22
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I need to see the science on this one
Ya, wolves definitely don't have those same compensatory mechanisms, for whatever reason. It's seemingly just about unique to coyotes. Part of it may be tied to both species' evolutionary history; before people were regularly hunting them, wolves had no natural predators. Coyotes, meanwhile...- MT22
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I need to see the science on this one
Do you mean to wolves themselves, or are you talking about coyotes' response to wolves?- MT22
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I need to see the science on this one
Immigration is a separate issue from the compensatory reproduction mechanisms. Both separately work to rebound local coyote populations. Anytime the local population falls, you create a territory vacancy that peripheral coyotes will naturally flood into, but via mechanisms listed in my last...- MT22
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