Extreme hunting pressure in region 7.

[Hunt West]

NR adult draws a license and the youth can purchase the same license OTC at the game and fish office iirc.

 

[DFS]

NR adult draws a license and the youth can purchase the same license OTC at the game and fish office iirc.

Jeezus

 

[DFS]

NR adult draws a license and the youth can purchase the same license OTC at the game and fish office iirc.

And they can hunt the whole season? Or just the youth days

 

[sclancy27]

@Ben Lamb or anybody else in the know. What is the story with nonresident youth hunters and how tags are obtained?

 

[DFS]

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Yikes. On par for what was seen. History appears to be repeating itself but this time the experts are in charge.

 

[sclancy27]

Yikes. On par for what was seen. History appears to be repeating itself but this time the experts are in charge.

Just another end around the NR "cap".

"Oh, it's only another 100 tags...", yea, except there are like a million carve outs.

 

[DFS]

Just another end around the NR "cap".

"Oh, it's only another 100 tags...", yea, except there are like a million carve outs.

The wildlife in region 7. Mind blowing and I know it’s probably all legislated, but at some point I would expect fwp to step up and ask for some help.

 

[Hunt West]

And they can hunt the whole season? Or just the youth days

Entire season. Anyone know How many youth deer/big game NR combos are sold each year on average?

 

[DFS]

Entire season. Anyone know How many youth deer/big game NR combos are sold each year on average?

Huh. That is disgusting.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Entire season. Anyone know How many youth deer/big game NR combos are sold each year on average?

1,650 last year by my count.

 

[Forkyfinder]

those youth hunters are great. They pay for bma

 

[DFS]

those youth hunters are great. They pay for bma

I think we need a reboot of what we are doing. It is going to take the people voted in to understand wildlife management but also agree with your political views from all the other aspects. Quite the conundrum. It will continue to get worse.

 

[brockel]

2.83” of rain at our house yesterday. Should be some tore up BMA and public land roads by the end of the weekend

And the muddy BMA roads didn’t disappoint. Almost every BMA highway access has a half mile mud track going down the highway.

 

[brockel]

I think we need a reboot of what we are doing. It is going to take the people voted in to understand wildlife management but also agree with your political views from all the other aspects. Quite the conundrum. It will continue to get worse.

Nothing is going to change

 

[Forkyfinder]

I think we need a reboot of what we are doing. It is going to take the people voted in to understand wildlife management but also agree with your political views from all the other aspects. Quite the conundrum. It will continue to get worse.

 

[DFS]

And the muddy BMA roads didn’t disappoint. Almost every BMA highway access has a half mile mud track going down the highway.

I just don’t understand why we are losing access

 

[brockel]

I just don’t understand why we are losing access

Probably the lack of non residents funding it

 

[Treeshark]

It looks like Montana makes around $700k just in youth big game tags. That is quite a bit of cash, I’m sure it goes a long way towards conservation and access.

 

[Forkyfinder]

It looks like Montana makes around $700k just in youth big game tags. That is quite a bit of cash, I’m sure it goes a long way towards conservation and access.

I think thats about what they spend on doing phone surveys that could be a surveymonkey email?

At least a NR youth hunter wont very likely visit more bma than theyre paying for.

Some real "Helena math" - that happens a lot on HT - is required to argue someone who paid for a NR 3 day upland tag is "paying for bma access."

Gotta be cognitive dissonance, i imagine, when you hear a pair of NR upland hunters defending the hunt they want to go on and not acknowledging the reality.

 

[sclancy27]

I think thats about what they spend on doing phone surveys that could be a surveymonkey email?

At least a NR youth hunter wont very likely visit more bma than theyre paying for.

Some real "Helena math" - that happens a lot on HT - is required to argue someone who paid for a NR 3 day upland tag is "paying for bma access."

Gotta be cognitive dissonance, i imagine, when you hear a pair of NR upland hunters defending the hunt they want to go on and not acknowledging the reality.

It would be pretty easy to figure out the break even NR : R ratio where BMA contributions are equal.....