Montana Judge Says Landowners Don’t Have ‘Absolute Freedom’ to Kill Elk, and Allowing Public Hunting Doesn’t Infringe on Their Rights

[Treeshark]

they would not budge on any sort of public hunting or access or anything to aid in actual elk management until the breaks went back to general for archery.

That’s the type of thing I was wondering about. There has some be some motive, I can’t see people just ponying up money for something like this without an end-goal in mind. Who knows, maybe they are but that would be unusual human behavior.

 

[Rack Daniels]

That’s the type of thing I was wondering about. There has some be some motive, I can’t see people just ponying up money for something like this without an end-goal in mind. Who knows, maybe they are but that would be unusual human behavior.

“An enemy of my friend, is my enemy”

 

[Elky Welky]

@Elky Welky, any thoughts on what UPOM’s end game may be with resurrecting this?

It seems unlikely that it’s merely to combat overpopulation of elk on private land, considering there are much easier pathways to address that particular ‘problem’ imo.

All of those pathways require letting the public help, which is a large part of their gripe. They want to “fix” it without the lowly dirty public going on their property.

But safe to assume it ultimately comes back to what they’ve always wanted: bull tags they can sell.

 

[Forkyfinder]

But safe to assume it ultimately comes back to what they’ve always wanted: bull tags they can sell.

They effectively have got in much of r4 and r5 for cows.

Easy to see why they feel continued motivation.