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I am writing this post as an addition to my Beaver Unit post as it has grown very large and I want to focus on change ideas.
As our hunting experiences decline, a number of Utah hunters run to neighboring states who "appear" to have better quality and management practices, which brings me to this question.
Why doesn't Utah try some of another states management tactics?
As I was applying for Wyoming Mule Deer for 2019, I noticed they have their state broken down into several "regions" like Utah does, EXCEPT.....they break down a specific region even further into "area's" and micro manage them accordingly.
Example- Region W is broken down into 4 area's and each of them have a different regulation. ) One of those has "any deer" (meaning buck, doe, fawn...anything). The next area is "bucks only, no restriction", the next is 3 point on either side, and the other is 4 points on either side only"
It is common Knowledge that any unit has areas with higher and lower concentrations of deer, as the habitat availability allows and disallows, which I am sure is what Wyoming's region W dictates.
Could a unit such as Beaver adopt the same types of regulations as we see in neighboring Wyoming?
Could it benefit from breaking it down into say, 4 "areas" within one unit?
Now before anyone says there are not enough officers in the field to support such regulation enforcement, I would have to assume that Utah has more officers in the field than Wyoming does. And at some point, we have to simply police ourselves and report violations.
I've heard the comments about our old "3 point or better" units like Book Cliffs used to have, that too many 2 points were shot illegally. Well, look how many are shot now and shot in the first two years upon the removal of the antler point restrictions!
I was on the Henry's that first year and it was an all out mass genocide of bucks and guess what happened? Emergency closure of both the Henry's and the Books immediately and blamed it on predators!
Thoughts??
Ready......go!
As our hunting experiences decline, a number of Utah hunters run to neighboring states who "appear" to have better quality and management practices, which brings me to this question.
Why doesn't Utah try some of another states management tactics?
As I was applying for Wyoming Mule Deer for 2019, I noticed they have their state broken down into several "regions" like Utah does, EXCEPT.....they break down a specific region even further into "area's" and micro manage them accordingly.
Example- Region W is broken down into 4 area's and each of them have a different regulation. ) One of those has "any deer" (meaning buck, doe, fawn...anything). The next area is "bucks only, no restriction", the next is 3 point on either side, and the other is 4 points on either side only"
It is common Knowledge that any unit has areas with higher and lower concentrations of deer, as the habitat availability allows and disallows, which I am sure is what Wyoming's region W dictates.
Could a unit such as Beaver adopt the same types of regulations as we see in neighboring Wyoming?
Could it benefit from breaking it down into say, 4 "areas" within one unit?
Now before anyone says there are not enough officers in the field to support such regulation enforcement, I would have to assume that Utah has more officers in the field than Wyoming does. And at some point, we have to simply police ourselves and report violations.
I've heard the comments about our old "3 point or better" units like Book Cliffs used to have, that too many 2 points were shot illegally. Well, look how many are shot now and shot in the first two years upon the removal of the antler point restrictions!
I was on the Henry's that first year and it was an all out mass genocide of bucks and guess what happened? Emergency closure of both the Henry's and the Books immediately and blamed it on predators!
Thoughts??
Ready......go!
