Nice to see ktc and my 'puppet' make peace. I hope, since I like both people, most of the time. Mulepacker is not a puppet either, he IS one with experience and firsthand knowledge on this topic. I see most of the grief coming from those who don't undersatnd what we are proposing. I will offer again my willingness to explain this in detail, either thru PM's, here, or by phone(just shoot me a PM and I will call you), or if you happen to be near St George next weekend,stop by and chat. Some dedicated sportmen have put alot of effort and research into this proposal, please try and look at it for what it is, not what it isn't.
None of the numbers are set in stone, on the Fishlake and Nebo the concerns that have been brought up have been noted, and will be addressed at the next meeting. We are not in the habit of changing numbers based on one or two vague inputs, we prefer to discuss this in person, hammer out the numbers and see what comes out. I promise, we will look at the numbers on these units extra close.
Mulepacker makes a great point on managing to 'age objectives', that is why we have to decided to push this with herd objectives along with age objectives, instead of just age objectives. This was driven home at the last meeting mainly by Mulepacker, who isn't even one of the 'founders', just someone who saw something he liked and chimed in and has made it better.
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