jryoung
Well-known member
And according to Toby and others the wolves have pushed all the elk down and onto private.
And they can read no trespassing signs
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And according to Toby and others the wolves have pushed all the elk down and onto private.
Has FWP, RMEF, B&C or other sportsman's groups responded publicly to this yet? I know it would not curtail the problem, but pointing out to the non-hunting public that sportsman are opposed to this crap could not hurt. It seems some damage control from sportsman groups is in order. I'm certain that ethical hunters are more opposed to this than even the anti's are.
Isn't Toby a road hunter??????? LOL John
balls-deep - I saw the video.
Speaking of Toby, did you see his hero photo with a fawn whitetail on facebook? It was just below his "death to Randy Newberg and the RMEF" topic. I love that guy.
The Legislature has removed a lot of authority from FWP to enact weapons restrictions areas due to the false furor of lead ammo regulation.
You still have to fight the bat-crap crazy Leg for the spending authority to get even part time help. The joint Revenue Committee just voted to cut $140 million from the Gov's budget, without specifying which agencies will get the burden, FWP will be squarely in the crosshairs of the appropriations committee, even though it won't help the overall budget or general fund numbers.
I'm in total agreement with your solutions, but I'm not sure we can get anywhere with the current make up of the legislature.
Maybe it's time to remove appropriation authority from the Legislature for FWP issues and do like Wyoming does with an independent agency.
Wayyy over-thinking this one.
Create a cow tag that is valid for only private lands on the areas this stuff happens, in fact, a vast majority of the tags. Consider these elk a harbored herd (as defined in the EMP), and only issue a handful of cow tags valid for public land.
When landowners call with a complaint of elk, the MTFWP can hand them a list of the successful applicants that have private land only permits. Landowners can control how many people they call.
If they don't use that list to their advantage, shut the pie hole and deal with the elk.
With a tighter restriction on the number of public land tags, you eliminate the mob...and you don't need to ask the legislature for jack chit.
This is similar to what I was originally suggesting. It is basically going back to the "old days" where cows were by lottery permit only. Successful applicants were called up and allowed to hunt for a few days. Success rate was high and the number of hunters was kept low so you didn't have the mob hunt (although it still wasn't always pretty).Wayyy over-thinking this one.
Create a cow tag that is valid for only private lands on the areas this stuff happens, in fact, a vast majority of the tags. Consider these elk a harbored herd (as defined in the EMP), and only issue a handful of cow tags valid for public land.
When landowners call with a complaint of elk, the MTFWP can hand them a list of the successful applicants that have private land only permits. Landowners can control how many people they call.
If they don't use that list to their advantage, shut the pie hole and deal with the elk.
With a tighter restriction on the number of public land tags, you eliminate the mob...and you don't need to ask the legislature for jack chit.