cantkillathing
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I dont know about the rest of the state but here is what is being created on the San Juan Abajo Unit.
there is 3 cwmu operations on this unit. Which consumes around 90,000 acres of ground. On these units there are alot of deer, big portion of those deer are bucks, which are not huntable to the majority of public. But when the DWR counts these deer in the winter and the buck to doe ratios are high, what do they do? They issue more buck permits for the public property, the general season tags, which creates more hunters in the field, The amount of deer on public property isn't going up, but that is where we have to issue more permits, because the deer plan calls for only 17 bucks per 100 does. But in reality the buck to doe ratio on the public property is more like 10 bucks per hundred does, but because the CWMU harbor all the bucks they are counted against us.
The deer counts need to be adjusted to what the public is able to hunt, not what we are unable to access or hunt.
What do you guys think?
My suggestion would be to have CWMU end on the Friday before the deer hunt and allow land owners to grant permission or sale trespassing fees if the deer are going to continue to be counted against the public, or they need to separate the deer counts. Count the deer on CWMU differently.
If you don't believe me that its a problem, I can show you videos of deer coming off of hay fields by the 50 to 100 head and all bucks.
there is 3 cwmu operations on this unit. Which consumes around 90,000 acres of ground. On these units there are alot of deer, big portion of those deer are bucks, which are not huntable to the majority of public. But when the DWR counts these deer in the winter and the buck to doe ratios are high, what do they do? They issue more buck permits for the public property, the general season tags, which creates more hunters in the field, The amount of deer on public property isn't going up, but that is where we have to issue more permits, because the deer plan calls for only 17 bucks per 100 does. But in reality the buck to doe ratio on the public property is more like 10 bucks per hundred does, but because the CWMU harbor all the bucks they are counted against us.
The deer counts need to be adjusted to what the public is able to hunt, not what we are unable to access or hunt.
What do you guys think?
My suggestion would be to have CWMU end on the Friday before the deer hunt and allow land owners to grant permission or sale trespassing fees if the deer are going to continue to be counted against the public, or they need to separate the deer counts. Count the deer on CWMU differently.
If you don't believe me that its a problem, I can show you videos of deer coming off of hay fields by the 50 to 100 head and all bucks.