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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: Changing Elk Managment
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In the centeral Rac it was brought up to look at other ways of mananging elk. Which I really like the idea. My question is this how many would support the idea of having draw only all elk hunts here in Utah?
With this there would be basically no over the counter tags at all. Now bare with me an let me explain. First of the number of spikes taken are counted in the herd counts for bulls harvested, With that it affects all the data here in Utah. So that inreturn accounts for lower tag numbers on limited entry units.
Arizona is a prime example of this, The offer no over the counter tags for elk. The offer anterless and any bull tags and then they do offer a few any elk tags. Now with this there herd is stated to have reached almost 35,000 in numbers. With that they offered in 2005 the following amount of tags.
Any weapon 5,840
Muzzleloader 508
Archery 2,679
Total 9,027
Archery 2,679
Now those tag numbers are for just Any bull tags. Now lets look at Utah. Utah elk herds have reached in numbers of 58,000
Any weapon 1,066
Muzzleloader 265
Archery 455
Premium 49
Total 1,835
Now If we eliminated the general season hunt we would be able to start allowing for more any bull elk tags. Now if you don't know much about elk in Arizona they produce great record book elk year in and year out. Now I like having a chance at good size bull. And I do believe that Utah can give out more tags, but we need to eliminate the general season hunt to do so. There is a few people with me on this topic that would like a chance at a big bull more then once in a lifetime. With this we can offer more tags and still be able to keep the quality high.
So here is the question who would support the elimintaion of general season hunts to offer more any bull tags in the draw process?
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In the centeral Rac it was brought up to look at other ways of mananging elk. Which I really like the idea. My question is this how many would support the idea of having draw only all elk hunts here in Utah?
With this there would be basically no over the counter tags at all. Now bare with me an let me explain. First of the number of spikes taken are counted in the herd counts for bulls harvested, With that it affects all the data here in Utah. So that inreturn accounts for lower tag numbers on limited entry units.
Arizona is a prime example of this, The offer no over the counter tags for elk. The offer anterless and any bull tags and then they do offer a few any elk tags. Now with this there herd is stated to have reached almost 35,000 in numbers. With that they offered in 2005 the following amount of tags.
Any weapon 5,840
Muzzleloader 508
Archery 2,679
Total 9,027
Archery 2,679
Now those tag numbers are for just Any bull tags. Now lets look at Utah. Utah elk herds have reached in numbers of 58,000
Any weapon 1,066
Muzzleloader 265
Archery 455
Premium 49
Total 1,835
Now If we eliminated the general season hunt we would be able to start allowing for more any bull elk tags. Now if you don't know much about elk in Arizona they produce great record book elk year in and year out. Now I like having a chance at good size bull. And I do believe that Utah can give out more tags, but we need to eliminate the general season hunt to do so. There is a few people with me on this topic that would like a chance at a big bull more then once in a lifetime. With this we can offer more tags and still be able to keep the quality high.
So here is the question who would support the elimintaion of general season hunts to offer more any bull tags in the draw process?