I took the first week of archery season off and the change imo which is usually the minority on here, was awesome. Good luck to all the nonresident bird hunters coming out. Happy to see Montana make some positive changes for the people and the wildlife.
I should clarify I do care about the financials of wildlife management but as of right now you could give mtfwp an unlimited budget and things would look the exact same, I suspect if they had less money things would still look the same. That is why the financial impacts of MTFWP don’t take a...
I think you would find that I suspect the harvest data is not correct but it is the only stat that fwp has that shows something maybe needs to change. Sorry for hunting a lot the last 25 plus years and paying attention enough to know that things have changed? I am headed out the door right...
It really didn’t target nonresidents it just asks the changes you’ve seen since 2016. In another 10 years we will wash the past again and be told yeah but just think about how bad it could be.
652 went from 15-25 tags to 200 in a very short time frame. It’s a very small district. There was a time when it was good, not that long ago, maybe that should be a lesson to fwp and the commission of constantly increasing quotas. There are several LE units I have heard very good things about as...
I really don’t think it will be the silver bullet but if you take nonresident harvest down to a reasonable level and potentially completely axe nonresident landowner tags things will improve for hunters and the cattle ranchers that we are trying to save.
The part that keeps getting skimmed over is that nonresident harvest for mule deer exceeds resident in region 6 and 7. Eastern Montana seems to be expendable but as of right now we are the deer factory that the rest of the state enjoys. If the harvest stats are correct and that was corrected to...