Just finished up a pronghorn hunt with my Dad, Brother, and nephew.
Was a lot of fun and we all got pronghorn.
Dad still does pretty well for being 81.
Nephews first pronghorn:
Found this buck the day before yesterday, gave us the slip a couple times. He ran out of luck yesterday:
I see very few if any benefits to roads other than capitalist ambition when it comes to punching new roads into what little we have left that isn't roaded to hell and gone already.
Lets just consider what isn't being maintained now in regard to roads. Between roads and bridges, close to 7...
Right, but roads running through the selkirks did eliminate caribou in the lower 48. Roads have silted salmon, steelhead, cutthroat, bull trout streams and eliminated untold miles of spawning habitat. Roads have created a massive problem with weeds, water quality, increased human caused ignition...
We don't need more roads. Everytime another road goes in that "may" solve one problem, it creates a bunch of others. FACT.
I have the luxury of not being forced to guess, that comes with working in the woods for 39 years and spending a significant amount of my free time in the woods as well.
I...
Great let's make another compromise...bad enough we've done it 4 times already which leaves us with 6 1/4% of what we started with.
FFS, is it EVER going to be enough when it comes to roads?
Here's some fun facts about all the "good" roads do...and yet an organization that claims conservation is important wants more roads? Not buying what they're selling.
A. Direct loss of habitat (see Forman et al. 2003):
• 3.9 million miles of roads in the U.S. • 2.3 million miles are paved.
•...
The RMEF has always left me scratching my head.
At times, I really like what they do, other times it's WTF? Not much different than any other organization for sure, all of them do that.
That said, this waffling and contradictory messaging definitely leaves me scratching my head on the roadless...
Definitely not going to be changing any hunting plans, but will camp perhaps a bit more than normal. Won't be doing as many day trips, that's for sure.
I'm telling myself it's the fuel prices why I plan on extended trips, but really, it's more to do with having about 12 days left to work for...
Here's the problem you forget about the "serial litigators"...often times it's the local people in the area that you're trying to protect with fuel reductions that are pissing and moaning about what the FS is proposing. They don't like changes to "their forest" that's in their back yards. They...
Don't break your leg jumping to imaginary conclusions.
To recap, since you're having trouble following along.
1. You can't compel private landowners to mitigate fire risk, that is unless you want to trash private property rights.
2. Even if mitigation steps have been taken, they may, or may...
No question 4+, and if I had to guess I would say 5 or 6.
Which is about when a vast majority of pronghorn in Wyoming have their maximum horn growth.
Oldest buck I've had lab aged was 8.