Here are the actual proposed Wyoming antelope license quotas for the 2022 season. Notice these quotas are quite different than what was previously identified as the 2022 quotas.
https://wgfd.wyo.gov/WGFD/media/content/PDF/Get%20Involved/2022%20April%20Regulations/CH-5-Draft-03-16-2022-3.pdf...
A possible project would be to take the conifer encroachment idea of BuzzH and see how conifer encroachment has affected sage-grouse leks in an area over a few decades.
Conifer encroachment has been identified as issue with sage-grouse leks in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
ClearCreek
Antelope survey flights are done in mid to later August and are done in a grid pattern.
The flight pattern looks more like an elk or deer survey flight.
ClearCreek
Go take a look at this list on March 15 or 16 and you will see what the actual 2022 proposed license quotas will be.
See if there is any difference between the list mentioned in the posts above and the one that will be on the G&F website on March 15 or 16.
ClearCreek
Laramie and Double Drop Muley:
The list is NOT the 2022 proposed antelope license quotas.
The Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act (WAPA) requires that when a Wyoming State agency proposes a change in regulations (in this case antelope license quotas for 2022) there be a draft proposal of...
I don't think those are the antelope license quotas for the 2022 season as they are still working out the license quotas. Quotas should be available about mid-March.
ClearCreek
OK, so the south end of the Bighorn National Forest, not necessarily the Bighorn Mountain range that extends further south.
There are some great hikes in the area to the north of Cloud Peak that can be accessed off the Red Grade Road.
ClearCreek
mtwarden:
Congratulations on your retirement!
On May 1, 2018 I retired after a 45 year career in the wildlife field, mostly as a fisheries biologist.
It was a great career and I enjoyed it - most of the time.
Stay active
ClearCreek
Sportsman's Warehouse in Sheridan, WY (population about 19,000) has three times as many fishing reels as the Cabela's in Billings, MT (population about 109,000).
ClearCreek
You are right, it is nothing new. I believe in was in the mid-1980's, maybe earlier, that Idaho reported they figured the wounding loss on archery elk was the same as recovered archery elk.
ClearCreek
I have an older good friend that wanted to kill a Rocky Mtn. bighorn sheep really bad but could never draw. He had killed a Stone sheep and a Dall, but could never draw a RM bighorn in the lower 48.
He got older and realized a RM bighorn may not be physically possible. Somehow he found out...