Montana season structure proposal 2.0

[shoots-straight]

post season survey's are where it's at. Cuts through all the phone survey data BS and will give you (usually) a good trend direction of where you're going with populations and ratio's.

Most the bio's I know are using harvest data.

Had to rethink that last statement. Our bio in the Root uses survey data, and lets us give our club imput. She's pretty open for hashing it out.

 

[rogerthat]

post season survey's are where it's at. Cuts through all the phone survey data BS and will give you (usually) a good trend direction of where you're going with populations and ratio's.

Most the bio's I know are using harvest data.

Had to rethink that last statement. Our bio in the Root uses survey data, and lets us give our club imput. She's pretty open for hashing it out.

You guys are the exception in this state…and region 4

 

[SAJ-99]

I hear what you are saying but it’s not congruent with solid game management to not try and get solid data. The other states that we look at as being better managed all prioritze data collection. I personally don’t see how you can do it without good information.

More important to get good data in the live counts -does, fawns, B/D ratio etc. Harvest data is going to be skewed regardless. Again, different for units like 270 that is a LE unit and more focused on providing higher quality. I would love for MT to manage their MD like WY, but I don't think that is going to happen. I hope MT elects to get better harvest data, but I don't think hunters should act like it's a big victory. It won't change much.

 

[TheJason]

If your are more focused on what you killed versus what’s currently on the landscape, you’re driving in the rear view.

Harvest data is useful, but shouldn’t be the primary driver in season settings. Post season counts and classification is far more important.

@DFS if you think folks from different states can’t contribute to a discussion like this then you are simply displaying your ignorance. I get it you want NR participation decreased. As a NR I would agree with you it should be.

I bet you wouldn’t act like this if you wanted NR support to move a proposal forward.