Montana Elk Data?

[R.K.]

Been poking around the FWP website looking for info, but I can't seem to find the bull:cow and cow:calf ratios for Montana's elk herds/units. Does anybody know where I can find this, short of contacting the biologist?

 

[eshunt]

All I could find were maps of population objectives and the units that were over/under objective and by how much. I couldn't find anything regarding bull:cow or calf:cow ratios. GoHunt doesn't even have the bull:cow ratios like they do for some states.

 

[Schaaf]

Been poking around the FWP website looking for info, but I can't seem to find the bull:cow and cow:calf ratios for Montana's elk herds/units. Does anybody know where I can find this, short of contacting the biologist?

You’d probably have to contact the area biologists. I don’t think they compile a list but I know I get emails of count that includes a sex ratio after every spring counting.

 

[golfer]

You’d probably have to contact the area biologists. I don’t think they compile a list but I know I get emails of count that includes a sex ratio after every spring counting.

You must rank high on FWP’s list.

 

[Schaaf]

You must rank high on FWP’s list.

It might be a local thing. I tried getting on a couple other regions email list and they had no clue what I was talking about.

 

[Carnage2011]

It might be a local thing. I tried getting on a couple other regions email list and they had no clue what I was talking about.

I’m on the email list for several of the bios in SW Montana as well.

 

[BuzzH]

Be careful with the data you're looking for it will be depressing.

 

[Schaaf]

Be careful with the data you're looking for it will be depressing.

In our 2020 season setting meeting we had a unit that had been under shoulder seasons four years.

In the 2020 count it had 1 cow in the unit counted.

 

[MThuntr]

Be careful with the data you're looking for it will be depressing.

But those are still somehow over objective...murder them all

 

[Nameless Range]

You can email regional bios and request to get on their mailing list. If you know specific datasets you have to request it, and if the data you are requesting is particularly juicy, as in it has GPS information about animal locations, you have to sign some documents.

They don't make it easy to get certain data, and I get the sense they certainly don't advertise data they aren't proud of, like the elk objective status maps.

 

[BuzzH]

But those are still somehow over objective...murder them all

If you can imagine this, and when I think of it in context to Montana its hard to even believe...but we have a certain user group here that is complaining about bull to cow ratio's being too high in some units (over 50 bulls per 100 cows)...

 

[Deleted member 18333]

In our 2020 season setting meeting we had a unit that had been under shoulder seasons four years.

In the 2020 count it had 1 cow in the unit counted.

Well, did they get her?

 

[Hunt West]

If you can imagine this, and when I think of it in context to Montana its hard to even believe...but we have a certain user group here that is complaining about bull to cow ratio's being too high in some units (over 50 bulls per 100 cows)...

Remember the time they flew in 202 and counted 8 f’n elk good times....

 

[Beignet]

I’m on the email list for several of the bios in SW Montana as well.

Just an FYI for anyone else blasting off emails to biologists: Every bio in Region 2 responded saying that a few bios do these in Region 3, but they're not widespread throughout the state (and no one in Region 2 does one).

 

[KB_]

Well, did they get her?

thats a lonely cow