Ben,
Maybe once you get your new and exciting paid position with that new NGO, all in the interest of preserving and advancing the NAM, those cow elk will be much closer in reach................................
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Ben,
Maybe once you get your new and exciting paid position with that new NGO, all in the interest of preserving and advancing the NAM, those cow elk will be much closer in reach................................
Let's fast forward 20 years to 2040. Montana's elk population is 10x over objective limits, according to the 2024 Elk Management plan overseen by Governor Gianforte. In response to this, the FWP commission (under the order of the state legislature) extends general rifle season from September 1- March 15, with a 5 elk annual limit on all public and private land.
95% of elk harvest comes off private land in 2040. Luckily though, due to the resounding success of Montana's Master Hunter program, 100 hunters a year are accepted to participate in a $1,500, 400 hour course* (with 40hr annual continuing education) which allows them the honor of reserving trespass hunts on select ranches (antlerless only, of course). Due to the success of these trespass fees, and the skyrocketing prices of outfitted private land bull hunts, the state's block management program can no longer compete and will be discontinued.
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What a great time to be a public lands hunter in Montana, nothing to worry about folks.
Let's fast forward 20 years to 2040. Montana's elk population is 10x over objective limits, according to the 2024 Elk Management plan overseen by Governor Gianforte. In response to this, the FWP commission (under the order of the state legislature) extends general rifle season from September 1- March 15, with a 5 elk annual limit on all public and private land.
95% of elk harvest comes off private land in 2040. Luckily though, due to the resounding success of Montana's Master Hunter program, 100 hunters a year are accepted to participate in a $1,500, 400 hour course* (with 40hr annual continuing education) which allows them the honor of reserving trespass hunts on select ranches (antlerless only, of course). Due to the success of these trespass fees, and the skyrocketing prices of outfitted private land bull hunts, the state's block management program can no longer compete and will be discontinued.
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What a great time to be a public lands hunter in Montana, nothing to worry about folks.
I don't know but that is not a world I want to live in.Anyways, the wacky scenario Randy11 concocted would never happen, right?
Or... in 2019 a bunch of organisations independently and together started working to create more informed and vocal sportsman and women who showed up and pressured the legislature into getting out of the elk business and putting the management reins of the FWP Bios.
Or... in 2019 a bunch of organisations independently and together started working to create more informed and vocal sportsman and women who showed up and pressured the legislature into getting out of the elk business and putting the management reins of the FWP Bios.
wllm1313 and buzz should engage in a battle of the concerned don't-live-in-Montana-no-more's.
Between wllm's reaction score title and buzz' clout, a clash of "titans"
Even though neither own pigs nor the farm (anymore)
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wllm1313,
Don't read in what I ain't sayin'.
Ya always have to be so literal on the webz.com- it was in jest. Partly.
Hell - guys like you and Buzz are more engaged (on these topics on here) than the lion's share of "like Minded" Montana ht'ers.
Tip of the cap........
Barring unforeseen-ness, MT's where I'll become dirt.........................................
I will laugh my a$$ off though the first time someone pulls out a "Master" hunter card to display their creds though.
We can get busy livin, or get busy dyin.
it's our resource, and if everyone sat back and did nothing, we'd lose it all to the short-sighted men who seek to skin this world.
Upon completion of the program, certified Master Hunters are afforded hunting access to private lands that would otherwise not be available to them. It is these cooperative agreements between One Montana and landowners that set MHAP apart from other advanced hunter education programs.
Easy to hammer those who are trying different ways to solve this problem of inaccessible lands/elk, a problem only getting worse and likely to be the main complication to wildlife management twenty years from now. What is harder, much harder than hammering on Hunt Talk over your morning coffee, is to stick your neck out and try to solve problems when you know there are no perfect solutions and the likelihood of criticism is high.