FWP will eventually have to move to an LE draw for mule deer and limit the seasons. We can’t be the “opportunity” state of the west and expect things to get better.
I was there for 2 weeks in December. We used tires the entire time on my sxs. I meet up with Dwili and made friends with him.
I hunted the west side of the hwy by Kilgore rd. All the elk we saw were up high.
Lots of sign down low but they move thru the unit fast. They can be right on the road or...
3 years post retirement and I still sometimes get that impending doom feeling of having to go to the office. Less frequent now, but it still raises its ugly head.
Wife and I just completed our annual pilgrimage across the US to visit adult Kids grandkids. We have now driven through every state...
It’s great to see all those towns on the list out west. I love visiting western MT and could absolutely live there. I enjoy the quiet of the eastern part of this state. There are a surprising number of people from WA and CA starting to move out here though too. 🤔
Exactly. I couldn't take it anymore so I switched. AT&T had better pricing, gave me a free phone, and has significantly better service in MN. No issues out west either thus far. So really, I can't blame them for switching.
I would put more faith in Starlink to overhaul the FAA communications...
My point is that it's not market based because the state somehow figures it out. That there is something fundamental with the FS in WA that prevents work. Other NFs don't seem to have the same "issue"
Thats everyone's plan but most just talk about it in the interweb......even the hard to draw tags in wyoming are difficult for residents. We just don't have points for dea thankfully. So it's a random chance but there are resident that will never draw a coveted draw tag here in some areas...
I had to go back and check your post to see where we disagree. I'm not sure we do. I don't dispute the numbers, only that finding a single cause is problematic. If your claim is the FS could cut more timber, I guess I would agree. But I stand by everything else. The data on Private/Tribal...
I typically go budget to start, identify my needs once I do the damn thing for a while, then buy to those needs. Lots of idiots with a mountain of credit card debt or daddy’s money love to tell you to buy top tier so they feel better about their poor choices. I have a pair of Vortex diamondback...
I'm not sure what you are getting at, but I'm NOT advocating for leasing ground. Actually, quite the opposite. I refuse to lease ground. I purchased a small farm in 2015, and hunt it and land in the west. Though not advocating for it, it seems it is the way of the future. Like it or not...
If you don't like transferable landowner tags, don't buy into them. It doesn't mean they don't open up more opportunity for hunters to hunt there.
This doesn't affect hunters playing the points game.
It doesn't affect the number of tags.
It doesn't allow NR to hunt the wilderness. Why do you...
A lot of spot on information so far. Washington is really like 2 states. The eastern portion arid with terrain that varies from desert sage to forested mountains. Columbia and Snake river breaks with Sheep, Mule deer and Chucker's. Blue and Cascade Mountains hold Rocky Mountain Elk. Even good...
All valid points, though is your list of inequalities any different than West Virginia's? Mississippi's?
Some of the housing-to-income disparity could be pointed to the large package of benefits currently offered to State citizens of the ountain est. Maybe if that benefit package wasn't so...
I kind of like this idea.
One thing you will hear biologists say all the time when you propose a change, is that the pressure you remove in one HD will transfer to another. I've spoken to a few now whose decision rationale treat this as an unquestionable maxim, and I think it is true.
I'm...