All politics aside, I believe that if we are allowing professionals, and we have break dancing competition, we should also have a pole dancing competition.
Can you explain/expand on this:
"3) If there is not elk pressure on the private ground then the lands in the HMA s will not be open."
All of the HMAs I'm familiar with are open during the specified periods on the permission slip/ranch rules, regardless of whether elk are on them or not. Is...
FFS
"I won a gun, it wasn't as nice as I think it should be, I'm pissed."
If you don't like the prize for God's sake don't buy a ticket. I'm sure there are plenty of folks that would be grateful to win.
Although the weather may be a natural cycle, the barriers, impediments, and outright habitat conversion that we've added to the landscape over the last 150 years have changed these animals' abilities to react and bounce back Antelope piled up in town since 1st of the year (obviously former...
We were just talking about how this has been worse than '20-'21 (a damn tough winter in south-central Wyo) and is comparible to '83-'84. Snowing again right now...
A friend of mine clearing snow at our office today posted this. A couple herds moved into town after the new years storm and have been busy trying (and mostly failing) to make a living since. We saw this during '20-'21, so it's not a surprise, but it's heartbreaking to see.
Its not hard to tell in South Central Wyo. There are wildlife yarded up where I've never seen them winter in 50+ years. From a line running sw/ne at the Quealy Dome to Bosler area west, conditions are rough. Have lost a lot of antelope already and we're set to lose a lot more.
Wow, this captured my feelings exactly. Thank you.
At the tail end of a career in hands-on natural resource management, I couldn't agree more. What speaks to me most about this is the "sense of place", ie this is where I belong. I'm extremely proud of a career working with the best people in...