Even though it's aggravating to have landlocked public lands we have to do our best to respect private property rights. Hunters can get a bad image if we feel we can trespass through areas to get where we want.
That’s a tough one. As a fellow eastern Washington guy, I love hunting the scablands as well. If you get the chance to hunt the last weekend of deer season though, I’d probably lean towards elk scouting. How many days of elk hunting have you allotted?
I ran into a guy in Sportsman’s today who asked where I was going hunting this weekend and started talking about where he’s going and what he was seeing. It’s amazing to me how open some people are with that info and how easily they ask. It feels kind of rude sometimes but I try not to take it...
My reading of the article was that the hunter was more concerned with disease than getting confronted by a bear. That's something I hadn't really given much thought to. Quote below:
“A Wyoming Game and Fish official, the [then] warden [for the area], told my friend Mary in 2016, ‘Do not...