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Alaska Sheep, 19C Working Group
Small potatoes here, but I'd like to see a statewide clarifying policy update - at least for sheep - on recovering wounded animals. If we are to a point that proposals for 1 sheep every 4 years is being taken seriously than the current verbiage on recovery of wounded animals needs to be... -
Alaska Sheep, 19C Working Group
I have no idea on guided sublegal harvest, nor was that my point. Areas with high harvest rates seem to have higher harvest of sublegals, or so I've heard. -
Alaska Sheep, 19C Working Group
To me, the benefit of 19c closure was to at least diminish the amount of sub-legal and squeaker-legal harvest. They definitely need to find a place before displacing all the 19c guides into new areas... As far as the state-wide "suggestions" go, my thoughts: 1) I don't like the one every 4... -
Alaska Sheep, 19C Working Group
FC management, at least according to old-guard AK biologist to Wayne Heimer who helped develop the plan, is mainly to ensure all viable ewe's enter estrus each fall. Back in the 3/4 days, without "prime" rams present, some studies showed that only about half of ewes would enter estrus and hence... -
Thoughts on this Huntin Fool moose video ethics?
Out of curiosity, does anyones answer change depending on the hunt/species? Like, would you keep hunting an OTC unit vs a limited draw area? A Dall Sheep vs a spike buck? Genuinely curious..... -
Thoughts on this Huntin Fool moose video ethics?
Great point! I edited the original post to reflect this -
Thoughts on this Huntin Fool moose video ethics?
I recently watched a Meat Eater episode where an archery elk wasn't recovered and the hunter notched their tag. Good ethos for a hunting film company -
Thoughts on this Huntin Fool moose video ethics?
Good points. I wasn't clear with my intention on the NR dig. My point with that comment is that NR's are guests in R's hunting areas and should be even more considerate imo. For many AK residents moose are hunted as a meat hunt. For those of us with that view on moose hunting it's sacrilegious... -
Thoughts on this Huntin Fool moose video ethics?
Man, this video Lake Monsters Part 2 by "Huntin Fool" really bums me out. The guy puts two arrows into a moose, clearly draws blood, and doesn't recover it. Instead of punching his tag he grabs a rifle and keeps hunting. He later shoots a moose at 770 yds after multiple shots. (I don't even want... -
Once in a lifetime decision
Way more room around the ear on the top right ram as others have stated. Ears are pretty uniform in size from sheep to sheep and a good tool for scale comp. Looks like an epic hunt, have fun and don't sweat it either way. we'd all love an update on how it goes! have fun. -
AK Sheep, Population Observations
Does subsistence sheep harvest get filtered into these data sets at all? I have yet to figure out where that info appears but occasionally I see a horn length that seems wayyyyy to small and as an extreme outlier. That said, I suppose there are some local-residents shooting monsters in NP's as... -
Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?
I think getting a high fence 'nursery' approval would be a bigger achievement than just a transplant in AK. We essentially have nurseries if you consider no hunting zones like sheep mt in Chickaloon, haha. Definitely agree that solid predator mitigation would benefit a seeding population... -
Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?
"Best time to plant a tree (or transplant sheep) was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - George Washington, probably. It's extremely easy to get this view based on Alaska's management history - and it's not incorrect. If ADFG is anything, they're absolutely not proactive. Listen to... -
Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?
Oh I'm sure they'd squabble. But as mentioned, many other states have found the funds and it honestly wouldn't be hard to get WSF donors behind it with the money that's in sheep hunting. Key would be to relocate state land to state land or fed land to fed land (like Lake Clark NP to Togiak... -
Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?
Sorry for confusion & I can't PM yet. I believe the disease has been found in Talkeetna's in sheep and Kenai's in goats. It's just a matter of time before it has an 'outbreak'. And with consideration of other new climate factors on some populations too... -
Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?
Haha exactly. Lake Clark isn't far from the Togiak nwr. Or better yet, transplant the stone sheep that step across the border into gmu 1 since we can't hunt that unit anyways - talk about an economic incentive for the state! haha Yes, it seems that statewide we're experiencing a net-negative... -
Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?
Long time lurker, and maybe it’s my winter boredom that's initiating this post. I grew up in bighorn sheep country and watched state agencies establish sheep herds in various areas via relocation. Then I moved full time to AK as statewide sheep began to decline. There’s a lot of doom to listen... -
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