Recent content by johnnyutah

The Piney Woods of East Texas. Very much yes.

I can say with confidence that the spruce on the Dixie, Cache, and Caribou National Forests were hit hard in the 90's with spruce beetles. I really don't value an assessment that says otherwise, even with a clever explanation about facts and that it was wet and cold. I saw the forest decay for...

Yes I'm biased, doesn't mean I don't have a point worth considering. Enviros have pitched a lot of baseless crap ideas that have needlessly caused a lot of problems for a lot of people and the environment. These should be called out along with their credibility. Somebody did say wolves...

Uh, and I don't buy wolves only kill the old and weak. That line was pitched in 1995 and turned to be yet another load of crap pitched by poker faced enviros who also have selective memory and will never admit that beetle kill timber can mitigated with logging, never consider that CO from...

Also, I thought the "sick and weak" argument died long ago. That was a major sales point when advocating for the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone. Who knew 75% of the elk herd was sick and weak? That's how much the population decreased in a few years. Wolf advocates have not...

The "weak" includes the fawns and calves. There is merit to both points-of view in different situations. Have your friend consider the population of moose in Yellowstone. It is less than 100, far less than carrying capacity and far less than historical numbers before wolves. It probably...

That idea was tried for quite a while. Sell tags even if the b/d ratio was dismal. Although the ratios are much better now, the herd is still perfectly capable of a steep decrease independent of all the tag cutting. Your complaint was addressed, tags were drastically cut to improve b/d...

That has more to do with favorable weather and b/d management than weapons being used. Hunting in the 80's - see hundreds of deer and maybe a yearling buck. Things bounced back in 2014 after some bad winters and the b/d ratios were helpful. Then we got a drought and it tanked again. It...

Looks more like a creeper to me. I'd tell my kids not to go there.

I sincerely commend you for your efforts. Your actions have been consistent with your convictions. We'll live with the mess. The habitat projects didn't fix it. Tons of units didn't fix it. Cutting tags didn't fix it. Cutting dates didn't fix it. Cutting doe tags didn't. Coyote...

It's way better than before when the b/d ratio was 5/100 or less. It's way more reasonable than just cutting virtually all tags except a few to go and target the very best genetics. Your ideas have been tried and did not work.

All logical points, but your ideas have been tried. SFW made sure of that. It didn't work. Come up with some new ideas, just don't keep rattling off 15 years after it clearly didn't work.

Can't believe people still have the energy to fight these things on this website. I've aged a couple of decades and the same people are still fighting about cutting buck tags, cutting doe tags, cutting dates, more smaller units, coyote bounties, cougar bounties, habitat projects and funding, on...

They sell what people buy. I can't get .303 savage anymore either. Have to wait until they make a batch and a friend calls me. Sometimes we bet wrong. There is still .270 on the shelves for the really old guys, just not 270 wsm.

The hype is this: 6.5 are outshooting the .308's in long range competitions. Hunters have tried it out and can't see any reason to shoot something else. I have a friend who has raised 6 hunters. He swapped every gun out for 6.5 in the past 5 years. I will not go back to anything else...