In my experience, bears will be most likely to find a bait site quickly if it is later in the season. When I put out bait on opening day in mid April it can take a couple weeks before the bait gets hit. There have been a couple times when I have started baits later in the season in mid to late...
Shane Mahoney is wrong about this one.
It is disingenuous to imply that these auction tags raise money that would otherwise be unavailable. The money that is gained through auction tags can be easily replaced by increasing the cost of the average hunting license.
I read that Arizona raised 3.2...
It is a bad precedent and one that will be used in conjunction with the wolverine ESA listing to disrupt even more trapping and hunting opportunities in the future.
The two grizzlies that were killed as a result of wolf trapping were injured by illegally set snares that did not have breakaways...
I don't doubt it. And enforcement of this issue is certainly difficult. The question is, are you going to follow the law, or are you going to adopt an attitude that poaching is ok as long as you can get away with it?
Yes, unfortunately Idaho does not disallow the placement of bait for taking photographs. IDFG does interpret any residue that is left in the soil as "bait" for the purposes of hunting big game and there is no statutory distance from the site or time from removal that makes hunting the area...
Nobody wants single digit buck:doe ratios but when it comes to producing fawns it is not an impediment to population growth.
"Even in herds with single digit buck:doe ratio, pregnancy rates are well over 90%"
More bucks does not equal more fawns, but more fawns does equal more bucks.
I would...
I didn't manipulate anything. All the data there clearly states that APRs do not increase the number of bucks. The only thing that can increase the number of bucks is fawn recruitment, and increasing the buck:doe ratio does not increase the number of fawns. Unless bucks develop the ability to...
In post #37 you put up a list of APR research findings but I'm not sure you and I are reading the same thing. I'm also not certain that you understand what Corbland is saying about the buck:doe ratio not being indicative of herd health or good buck hunting. You can have a 50:100 buck:doe ratio...
I'm optimistic. I can't remember which biologist it was that Robby had on the podcast (Kevin Monteith?) but he talked about the growing body of knowledge regarding the importance of summer range habitat and body fat at the beginning of winter. Hopefully someone will come along and correct me if...
The article is cringy and full of false implications but it will be effective in convincing the public to agree with him. I am as horrified by this type of scenario as anyone but let me play the devils advocate for a minute.
The author, however misguided, has brought up some true issues that we...