NWA, uh, no predators and weak ungulates? Only in Ecology 101 for college freshman. Compare the health of Idaho's elk herds before and after the wild leg-lifters "returned". Compare the health of California's big horn's before and after lion hunting was banned and the lions exploded, etc, etc...
Anybody out there have any recent elk/deer experience in either of these units - Continental divide country SE of Lost Trail Pass and ID/MT divide country SW of Lost Trail Pass? ? Thinking of a backpack hunt this fall in one or both, mainly for elk. If nobody wants to share exact GPS coordinates...
Paul - I had to try. That's ok, at least I hunt those big ID critters and not those tourist-sized MT critters!
No, still south of the border - maybe back in the NW end of this year. Gotta do more huntin' and fishin' with the my son - I'll be up there this fall, though!
Stan
"Lethal control has a dubious record of success as a means of depressing numbers of wolves over time, because removing individual wolves may fragment packs and allow more wolves to breed. When entire packs are eliminated, wolves from outside the control area often immigrate to fill the void"...