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<blockquote data-quote="Gone Ballistic" data-source="post: 487618" data-attributes="member: 26477"><p>Mustang58,</p><p>I have done the majority of my elk hunting over the past 40 years in the Selway, Palouse and Clearwater Valley areas. I currently am in the process of building a new place in the Clearwater Valley area which I hope to retire in the next year or two. The decimation of the Elk in both areas has been disheartening to say the least. I saw 4 wolves on my last whitetail hunt in November between upper Dworshack and Elk River chasing a lone cow elk. There were many others that witnessed it as well as I heard close to 20 shots fired in their direction. It didn't seeem to alter the wolves plan, however. I finally lost sight of them in heavy cover. I'm reasonably sure they succeeded in their mission. They have taken the Dworshack heard from around 18,000 pre-introduction to less than 2500 as I understand.</p><p>I do know that if the Fish and Game agencys allow hunters the ability to use electronic calls and decoys, we will be able to have a better impact on them. We're stuck with them the way things are now and it is getting too late in some areas to bring back in our lifetime what once was. If a bill gets out of Washington D.C. that eliminates them from the Endangered Species Act's protection, we could eliminate them once again. I don't see that ever happening but it should. We need to bring the control back to the folks we pay to manage our wildlife based on sound biological data, not politics. We also need to become cohesive and teach the public the truth regarding The Defenders of Wildlife, PETA and the National Humane Society. The problem is that hunters are just too filled with apathy. They, as a whole, want it their way but don't want to take the initiative to put their own time and money out there. The majority seems to gripe about everything while they sit back and wait for someone else to bode their wares.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gone Ballistic, post: 487618, member: 26477"] Mustang58, I have done the majority of my elk hunting over the past 40 years in the Selway, Palouse and Clearwater Valley areas. I currently am in the process of building a new place in the Clearwater Valley area which I hope to retire in the next year or two. The decimation of the Elk in both areas has been disheartening to say the least. I saw 4 wolves on my last whitetail hunt in November between upper Dworshack and Elk River chasing a lone cow elk. There were many others that witnessed it as well as I heard close to 20 shots fired in their direction. It didn't seeem to alter the wolves plan, however. I finally lost sight of them in heavy cover. I'm reasonably sure they succeeded in their mission. They have taken the Dworshack heard from around 18,000 pre-introduction to less than 2500 as I understand. I do know that if the Fish and Game agencys allow hunters the ability to use electronic calls and decoys, we will be able to have a better impact on them. We're stuck with them the way things are now and it is getting too late in some areas to bring back in our lifetime what once was. If a bill gets out of Washington D.C. that eliminates them from the Endangered Species Act's protection, we could eliminate them once again. I don't see that ever happening but it should. We need to bring the control back to the folks we pay to manage our wildlife based on sound biological data, not politics. We also need to become cohesive and teach the public the truth regarding The Defenders of Wildlife, PETA and the National Humane Society. The problem is that hunters are just too filled with apathy. They, as a whole, want it their way but don't want to take the initiative to put their own time and money out there. The majority seems to gripe about everything while they sit back and wait for someone else to bode their wares. [/QUOTE]
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