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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 1517109" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>Well, in my opinion, it isn't hunters accounting for low herd numbers. It's two things. Number 1, wolves. I put wolves up front for no particular reason. They're bad but not as nearly as bad as Number 2. Number two would be poor management. You see, we can always count on an Administrator to want to appease the public, regardless if it makes sense or not. After all, how are you going to coast to a nice State retirement, when everybody with an opinion, hates your guts? They bunch up these herds in winter by feeding them and thus expose them to the biggest killer of all... disease. Also, if you've ever hunted in the snow, you know that predators follow game animals when they migrate. If all the game animals migrate to a spot where some dope rancher or government program is feeding them, it's easy pickings for predators. Predators with easy picking during the winter, do very will during breeding season. Only a complete and massive die-off can curb the predator population. That said, is it predators or people trying to help elk get through the winter that are creating this perfect storm? Well, just ask your local Administrator, who is probably old as heck and just coasting to retirement... what his height and weight are. If he can't run a mile under 7 minutes, and hasn't bivouacked for over a week, in 2 decades, he's more interested in what the local hippies who run the local news rags, are saying, then saving elk herds. </p><p></p><p>Maybe not... Just an opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 1517109, member: 41338"] Well, in my opinion, it isn't hunters accounting for low herd numbers. It's two things. Number 1, wolves. I put wolves up front for no particular reason. They're bad but not as nearly as bad as Number 2. Number two would be poor management. You see, we can always count on an Administrator to want to appease the public, regardless if it makes sense or not. After all, how are you going to coast to a nice State retirement, when everybody with an opinion, hates your guts? They bunch up these herds in winter by feeding them and thus expose them to the biggest killer of all... disease. Also, if you've ever hunted in the snow, you know that predators follow game animals when they migrate. If all the game animals migrate to a spot where some dope rancher or government program is feeding them, it's easy pickings for predators. Predators with easy picking during the winter, do very will during breeding season. Only a complete and massive die-off can curb the predator population. That said, is it predators or people trying to help elk get through the winter that are creating this perfect storm? Well, just ask your local Administrator, who is probably old as heck and just coasting to retirement... what his height and weight are. If he can't run a mile under 7 minutes, and hasn't bivouacked for over a week, in 2 decades, he's more interested in what the local hippies who run the local news rags, are saying, then saving elk herds. Maybe not... Just an opinion. [/QUOTE]
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