Yeah, and there's also a lot of roads and country open to vehicle use, that's exactly where e-bikes should be allowed to operate, on motorized trails and roads. Not on trails open to foot traffic and horses.
This crap has got to STOP. MTGomer has it 100% correct, that hunters are in a big hurry to ruin what little is left of secure areas for big-game. Those animals need places where they can find security away from the throngs of hunters constantly on their ass. When those types of secure areas are decreased in number, those elk react and end up going to the only place they can find security, and that is private property where nobody can hunt.
Of course, then you have the same "sportsmen" whining and griping that they cant access those elk anymore because the jerk landowners wont allow access. Rather than think about how, in the long run, allowing easier and easier access to public lands will impact elk security, all 90% of the hunters think about is "gettin' their elk" this year.
Couple easier access with all the things that have been mentioned in this thread, better gear, long range bows, long range rifles, better glass, better clothing, better boots, packs as well as the plethora of access to information...there aren't many places left for elk to find any kind of decent security.
Further, anyone that isn't man enough to hike in, and put some effort in, doesn't really deserve to have access to every last acre of public land. What about my right to want to afford elk a secure area on public land, or have areas left to hunt that aren't being pounded by ATV's, motorbikes, and now e-bikes? My right to hunt these areas isn't even a consideration and I'm supposed to just "deal" with it because e-bikes allows more users. I say BS to that, your rights end where they infringe on mine. Your rights end where they infringe on my public wildlife having secure areas to live.
I also contend that the only reason many want all the latest gadgets and easier and easier access, is because they're lazy and simply want an easier route to a dead elk. The hunt, the wildlife, and secure habitat don't mean anything to them, only the dead animal they hang their tag on. The end always justifying the means.
This thread is the perfect example of what I hate about hunting and a good number of the hunting population. There is no thought given to anything or anyone else...its really a shame.
Finally, the only way that wildlife and those that manage our wildlife can respond to all this technology and easier and easier access is to shorten seasons, reduce quota's, go to limited quota from general tags, etc. Hunters screw themselves out of the best and most important part of hunting, which is days in the field and access to tags, because they have to take the easy way out. I'd rather fill a tag once every 5 years, but be able to hunt every year, than have an easier hunt and be assured to fill my tag, but only be able to hunt one time in 5 years.
We reap what we sew...and frankly, deserve to.
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