LAST EDITED ON Mar-08-19 AT 02:39PM (MST)[p]>I get it.
>
>I am from northern Utah
>
>Attended 2 years as an Aggie
>
>
>Understand the need for farmers...my family
>owns farms in the Cache
>Valley.
>
>However guys, when KSL starts into
>one of those MASSIVE PANIC
>ATTACKS about how we will
>all die soon if it
>doesnt rain....I just remember 80%
>of Utahs water gets dumped
>on alfalfa...so no people will
>die. We gonna be
>okay even if Ubank severs
>a nerve talking about the
>dry conditions.
>
>Now regarding weather in the 70's....I
>know what you are saying
>about the ol timers....my grandpa
>lives on the bench in
>Bountiful and I remember the
>snow in his yard as
>a 5 year old in
>1982 and then in 1983
>specifically...we played in deep snow.
>
>
>That being said...I linked the website
>because I wanted you to
>be able to look.
>The weather isnt that much
>different now.
>
>I have lived in Montana and
>hunt there every year.
>
>I have lived in Northern Utah
>and hunt there every year.
>
>
>And now I live in Southern
>Utah every year.
>
>So, I guess I have seen
>quite a bit. One
>advantage to being an older
>guy I guess. Anyway...the
>weather patterns havent changed much...sure
>it gets cold...and warm....and does
>so over periods of years...but
>the basics are still the
>same. Thank goodness.
> The only issue
>is that I hate seeing
>the cold years...I only have
>20 years of hunting left
>in me. I dont
>have patience any longer to
>wait out the winter kills
>on the deer.
>This year is going to
>be tough on the deer
>and elk in Colorado and
>Montana.
>
>I saw an update from Guy
>Eastman on the La Barge
>area for region G deer
>wintering there and it didnt
>look good....and that was 3
>weeks and 5 storms ago.
>
>
>We are definately losing deer at
>this point....and that is normal...but
>I dont have a lot
>of time left to wait
>for these states to get
>their management plans figured out.
> Utah took forever!
>And still thinks 18:100 buck
>doe ratio is great while
>a bad unit in Colorado
>is like 28:100 and I
>just applied for an ok
>unit with 35:100.
>
>Forget Wyomings management. They refuse
>to manage anything. The
>region G deer have been
>hammered. The state
>does nothing.
>
>So, because the state has no
>ability to manage my only
>hope for good region G
>tags is.....pray for good weather...
>
>
>
....so now you know why I
>am a lil sensitive about
>having good weather....I see my
>chances at hunting region G
>two more times in my
>life....slip away with each storm...
>
>
>lol...what a whiner I sound like.
> Sheesh
If you played in the snow as a five year old in 1982 you aren't that f'n old. At your age, if you only have 20 years of hunting left, then you either have bad genetics or you're a puzzy!