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    Idaho Spring Bear

    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...
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    Arizona does away with auction tags

    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...
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    Idaho Wolves, the story no one is talking about.

    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...
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    Mineral site

    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?
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    Mineral site

    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...
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    Mineral site

    And where is it legal to do this?
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    Wyoming draft regulations 2024

    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...
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    Wyoming draft regulations 2024

    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...
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    Wyoming draft regulations 2024

    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...
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    Wyoming draft regulations 2024

    Bucks don't give birth.
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    Back to Back Winters SE Idaho

    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...
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    Good Luck Oregon

    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...
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    Slam Completed

    Crazy that 30 years passed between ram #1 and ram #2 and then knocked out the last 3 in less than 10 years.
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    Trespassing? Worth shooting a snowboarder?

    And we don't know, which makes all of our internet opinions worthless.
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