Its will be really tough to hit a 30/100 buck doe ration in any general unit. HD270 bounces a touch below and above 30/100 each year based on post season winter flights.
All the self claimed Independents I know are hard core R’s. They use the Independent as a crutch and I live in the heart of hard core R.
Hell there are some right here on HT.
Spring trend counts tell you year to year what is being removed not by just hunters but by all means. Here these flights go back decades. Our bio does a good job flying 5 HD's. We see the counts every year and have for close to 40 years. This drives the season setting, permit levels and quotes.
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I would rather see FWP spend money on spring surveys. Really good trend counts. Buck/doe, doe/fawn, bull/cow and cow/calf ratios are where it's at. Doesn't really matter what hunters, wolves or winter kill. What matters is what is left on the ground come spring. Good flight data not...
Boebert’s name in the same sentence with the word “science” is damn funny.
And back in 2011 the Montana legislature came within inches of screwing up the delisting. Ben Lamb and some others help kill the nonsense before damage was done.
Legislators involved with wildlife never turns out well.