1. Shoot all the wild horses on public land. No exceptions. Treat them like we do carp.
2. OTC lion tags valid for 365 days. Spot and stalk. Every lion checked in gets a $300 bounty. Wanna run dogs? Draw a tag.
3. Same as above, but for bears. Wanna bait? Draw a tag.
4. Eliminate ALL antlerless doe hunts statewide until population objectives are met state wide. If there’s problem deer in town, catch them and transplant them. Don’t care if the survival rate is less than ideal. I’d rather spend the money and take the chance with it living than it being road kill or shot and turned into shizzy jerky no one wants to eat. Deer are eating your flowers in the foothills? Too phuckin bad. Hit a deer with your car and claim it on insurance? You now owe the state $350 before you can get your car repaired. Slow the ***** down and pay attention to more than your phone and coffee.
5. Scopes on muzzys? They gone.
6. Uncapped, target turret scopes on your rifle? They gone too.
7. You wound a deer and can’t find it? Cut that tag. Your done. You get caught shooting another with proof? Loss of all privileges 10 years.
8. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to kill a buck deer with no less than 3 points on 1 side. Get caught doing so? Loss of privileges 10 years.
9. ANY tag revenue brought in by $FW, 70% of that money goes towards projects in the unit that tag was sold for OR put into the state fund that is used for wildlife studies or projects. 50% of the expo profit goes towards the UTIP, biology or habitat study projects. Can’t do that? Bye expo
11. did I mention QUIT SHOOTING DOES?
12. Get that asshat Byron Bateman off the WB. DumbDumb Donnie too. They are a plague.
13. Every coyote killed in the state with proof of location of kill gets you $100. No limit.
will that fix everything? No. Is it a good start? Maybe. Definitely better than what we have going now.
14. Pull 70% of all private livestock grazing on our public lands. Or up the price to $100 per head. This $1.89 or whatever they are paying now is bullchit. The rancher life may be hard, but that’s a choice they made themselves. We have to pay to play in every aspect when it comes to our public lands. It’s time they contribute as well. And don’t start with the “we put in springs, maintain trails and feed off fire hazards” BS. Anyone that’s set foot on our public land for
More than 3 minutes knows thats a bunch of horsechit!
Delta bravo
I like all of the other things you listed other than #4 #11 I've done the homework on this you need to have doe hunts and cow elk hunts it just needs to be manage correctly.
Now is not the time to be cutting too many tags until we pull out of this drought where in.
#14. big problem with this one
(Pull 70% of all private livestock grazing on our public lands. Or up the price to $100 per head. This $1.89 or whatever they are paying now is bullchit. The rancher life may be hard, but that’s a choice they made themselves. We have to pay to play in every aspect when it comes to our public lands. It’s time they contribute as well. And don’t start with the “we put in springs, maintain trails and feed off fire hazards” BS. Anyone that’s set foot on our public land for
More than 3 minutes knows thats a bunch of horsechit!)
I have family and friends that are hunters and they run cattle on the mountain( everything they do is BS)
My only problem with this is you don't think they do their part and we do more.
If you drive from Heber to the basin their are tons of deer and elk and cattle on private property.
My point is people don't see what they truly offer for the wildlife in the winter months or even year round a lot of cattlemen/ property owners give wildlife a safe haven even during hunting season without them right now especially during a drought years they are truly helping out are wildlife at who's expense the ranchers.
So if you want to do for one let's do for all, up the price per head of cattle to a $100 then lets go ahead and do so for the 4 months while there up on forest and then in return the ranchers can charge also $100 per deer and elk that is on their property year round.
Delta Bravo
My question is what do you pay every year and how many projects do you do or what do you do for our wildlife.?
So why don't you go up and improve water sources and build fences and improve roads and take your weed eater up and clear off the grass for fire hazards and while your at it go ahead and let the deer come down to your property and let them feed during the winter while your trying to feed cows trying to earn a living.
The only problem I see here is the cattle are a
nuisance period.
or hunters they get sick and tired of having to delete 5000 pics off of their trail cameras and they get sick of them walking in on them while your trying to hunt ect... I have truly heard it all
the ranchers deal with a lot of SH!! as well I have watched the atv and side x sides chase the cattle around until they can't run no more.
I have closed gates after gates because hunters think they are going to get the cattle ranchers in trouble with the forest service because they are over feeding certain area's the list goes on
If you think cattlemen are hurting our wildlife herds. Here is something to read. (as far as sheep goes I don't know what the heck they eat)
Mule deer are primarily browsers, with a majority of their diet comprised of forbs (weeds) and browse (leaves and twigs of woody shrubs and sagebrush).
Deer digestive tracts differ from cattle and elk in that they have a smaller rumen in relation to their body size, so they must be more selective in their feeding. Instead of eating large quantities of
low-quality feed like grass, deer must select the most nutritious plants and parts of plants.
Because of this, deer have more specific forage requirements than larger ruminants.
Last time I checked cattle don't eat sagebrush leaves and twigs. but they will definitely eat low-quality like grass.