Brainstorm Solutions for the Western "Tag Crisis"

[wind gypsy]

Lot of folks that don’t read herd management plans don’t know this, but ‘depredation’ and ‘managing conflicts’ keep a lid on WAY more elk populations than wolves or anything else.

Pretty location specific. Lots of area in wolf country where wildlife conflict and depredation is less of a thing.

Which is why when wolf huggers say things like "there's more elk in MT now than there was pre-wolf re-intro" its a misleading claim. They dont say a word about where that population growth has occurred - outside primary wolf/bear country.

 

[Idaboy]

Lot of folks that don’t read herd management plans don’t know this, but ‘depredation’ and ‘managing conflicts’ keep a lid on WAY more elk populations than wolves or anything else.

100%. Like in Idaho the "meeting objective" doesn't mean the herd is best for hunting. FG has to balance private land owners, farmer/rancher and hunters etc

 

[BuckSmasher]

Pretty location specific. Lots of area in wolf country where wildlife conflict and depredation is less of a thing.

Which is why when wolf huggers say things like "there's more elk in MT now than there was pre-wolf re-intro" its a misleading claim. They dont say a word about where that population growth has occurred - outside primary wolf/bear country.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics- Mark Twain

 

[Brap01]

Reducing predators (specifically wolves) would go a long way to increasing elk/deer numbers.

 

[LoH]

These types of threats are the absolute dumbest. They do not solve anything.

“Don’t click on it just keep scrolling”.

Why are you wasting your time hammering away on the keyboard, typing up something that will make no difference whatsoever to the decision-makers??? NONE.

I Was asked to provide my input, but I don’t get involved in a circle jerks.

Dude, are you OK???

I mean, you're not wrong, and I don't disagree, but aren't you describing 95% of the internet, including Rokslide? Don't know why this particular time-wasting thread is so triggering. I do think it suffers from a lack of memes.

 

[Maverick1]

Dude, are you OK???

I mean, you're not wrong, and I don't disagree, but aren't you describing 95% of the internet, including Rokslide? Don't know why this particular time-wasting thread is so triggering. I do think it suffers from a lack of memes.

Meme? Did you say meme?