One of the largest proposals in a long time is open for public comments. It is the proposal to allow large scale solar development in many wildlife-rich areas of the west.
The WyoFile folks do a great job of explaining the possible impacts of such in Wyoming. The same can be said for many of...
Many of you have come to learn of Hunters For Access, a group started in Miles City. The idea is to raise money to help Block Management Cooperators and show appreciation for their participation in the program. Below is a flyer of their upcoming raffle.
Link to that page on their website is...
This is a topic that I've almost had to compartmentalize, given how much it raises my blood pressure. Marcus knows it gets me worked up and he convinced me to sit down and give some thoughts on how the Equal Access to Justice Act is being abused by environmental litigators (drive by litigators...
I suspect many of you already use GOHUNT for your applications, store points, research, and other features. For those who don't and you've been waiting for a good deal, now is the time. Through April 7th, those who sign up with our promo code (RANDY) will get $100 of store credit.
Link here -...
Alright, I'm gonna be on the road a lot, so I figured I would get this set up for the 2024 March Madness.
The Group is Hunt Talk 2024. Only one entry per member.
https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/mens-basketball-bracket/group/56180/invitation?key=2d28c4a4b5632810
I'll come up with...
In this episode or Leupold’s Hunt Talk Radio I share the mic with Dan Gates of Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management. The conversation focuses on the Colorado ballot initiative and how it is being used to widen bans on hunting. Additional topics cover using a 501(c)(4) organization to...
Since this forum and my emails are full of people arguing about the difference between resident/non-resident treatment, Marcus and I figured we'd do a quick Fresh Tracks weekly on the topic. Hopefully people take away from this video the laws that allows disproportionate treatment, the risks of...
Those of you who subscribe to Fresh Tracks+ saw this hunt when we put it on that platform last month. It was a lucky draw where I finally drew my "First Choice" on an Arizona deer application. I always talk about swinging for the fences with a first choice and something more reasonable on a...
@Bill Christy, I am slammed with moderation requests of your posts (already 9 of them this morning). This is a test to determine if you are real person, an alias with ChatGPT, or a bot.
This video is near and dear to my heart, so I am posting a link here. I had a great uncle drown while duck hunting from a canoe. It didn't have to happen, but it did. My family remembers that. The older generations made sure all of us younger kids were schooled heavily on boating and hunting...
I've always given the default benefit to FWP when it comes to season settings and such. I've relied on the good people within the agency with a lot more knowledge than me to make the final decisions. But over the years, the centralization of power to Helena makes it hard for the Regional folks...
While traveling I forgot to put a link to the fist of these day-by-day videos. Since the Fresh Tracks+ crew got to binge watch them last month, I'll post them both here at the same time on the same thread.
Part 1:
Part 2:
I'm on the road for a while, but a friend sent this EQC meeting agenda item to me. If you're a Montana hunter, this should get your attention. It is a proposed ballot initiative that will exempt landowners from hunting regulations during elk, deer, and black bear season.
Link here -...
If any of you are interested in asking the Montana Land Board to support the Wildcat Bend Acquisition, the vote is tomorrow morning, Monday November 19.
You can email them at - [email protected]
It has already been approved by the MT FWP Commission and now awaits approval from the Land Board.
It's that time of year when all of our partners ask us to promote their Black Friday and Holiday sales. Rather than do a post for all of them, I'll just start a thread that lists them all:
Outdoor Class - 30% off from now until November 30th when you use Promo Code RANDY...
I'm always impressed with the media productions of the Wyoming Migration Initiative. Greg, Emily, and Patrick are extremely talented and great at communicating the importance of migration routes to the wild things we all love.
There most recent film covers a lot of topics critical to...
For the last year Andrew McKean and I have been working on a podcast series that dives into the political movement that is working to carve hunting/hunters out of wildlife management. It started in Washington and is now in full swing in Colorado.
In this series we discuss what has happened and...
Not sure what happened when I was in the Yukon, but I came home to a flurry of comments, messages, and emails of how bad conservation easements are and how the USFWS was going to take people's land and force them into conservation easements. Obviously they have no understanding of how useful...
As I've written on the forum before, my hunting dreams involve landscapes, more so than species. I started saving money 29 years ago to make my hunting dreams a reality, pending health allowing me to do such.
The four locations on that list were:
Cassiars of northern British Columbia (2019)...