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I doubt they left the quilomene buck hunt alone because the DOW suddenly found a secret population of them up there.....more likely, it is just easier to leave the season alone then have to deal with a bunch of angry sportsmen over the tribal overharvest. My guess is that it was purely a political decision; leave the season alone, and the heat comes off of them. So, once again a decisions is made based not on the health of the herd, but rather what was politically easiest. Too bad....
Unfortunately, you seem to think that indian harvesting of game animals outside of the reservation is absoutely no problem. I wish I would have had my camera with me at the Sportsmen Show in Yakima several weeks ago.......they have an antler scoring area where local people can bring in their heads and have them scored. Interestingly, each head has a tag attached to it that provides the name of the hunter, year harvested, and area harvested, and the final score.
So, it is kind of fun, you can look at where the animal was harvested, what year, and who harvested it. Well, it looks like the "Whitefoot" brothers from White Swan had a pretty good year in the Colocklum......looked like two brothers, the take for 2006 was 5 bulls between them, scores ranged from 312 to 360. Looked like they were pretty proud of them, all lined up one after the other.
It was pretty obvious that they hadn't been harvested for too long judging from the hair and tissue still on the skull plates. Who knows how many others they have shot that they didn't bother to bring down to the show.
So, call me a little jaded...........sorry, but tribal hunting is a problem, and it isn't going to get any better until the tribal apologists in the world admit there is a problem.