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Well boys and girls who love the Idaho outdoors and have for long generations enjoyed a privilege unique to Idaho....or put another way....made Idaho unique among most states in the US....of having the express LEGAL right to hunt on unmarked private land...have just seen that privilege taken...

And here is the letter I have written to Governor Otter...for what it is worth. Dear Governor Otter, I don't know if the Trespass Legislation will get to your desk....but if it does, please VETO it. In my opinion it is being hastily rammed through to avoid a fair vetting by those of most...

My note to my legislators...for what it is worth. (written today as I read about this legislation yesterday) I have just learned of and read through the proposed legislation. I URGE YOU TO SEND THIS BACK TO COMMITTEE OR TABLE IT UNTIL IT GETS A MORE THOROUGH PUBLIC HEARING. IT HAS TOO MANY...

Excellent letter for Mr. Trevey. He is a recent Idaho Game Commissioner...so he knows his stuff. Here is the letter I wrote Gibbs....enclosed in a CC to Governor Otter. My note to the Governor comes first...then my e-mail to Gibbs. Also, I talked at length to Commissioner Blanco about this...

Colorado has an excellent approach for solving big game/private land conflicts. It is a program called the Habitat Partnership Program (HPP). The State is broken up into logical geographic areas and Habitat Partnership Program Committees (HPPC) are set up for each one. The Committees are made...

I see House Resources Chairman, Mark Gibbs (R-Grace) is holding our needed hunting license fee increase hostage to his politics. He, of course, is declaring innocence. The legislation IDF&G introduced was a simple, "clean" bill to authorize the Idaho Fish and Game to increase fees. Gibbs...

When the Wyoming legislature began debating bills this year to take over public lands, Wyoming sportsmen and outdoor groups rose up and swamped the legislators with calls...and the bills were soundly trounced...

Representative Labrador (R - Idaho) is at it again. He has again introduced legislation to turn management of public lands over to the State of Idaho. Any of you who have hunted on State lands here in Idaho know what to expect....a lot of clearcuts, a lot of roads, most of which are in very...

I just posted on this topic. I would have responded to this thread if I had seen it before posting. Does anyone have a list of the key Idaho Legislators one could write/email comment to?

I just took IDFG on-line survey addressing limited quota applications and the sale/auction of trophy tags to raise general revenue. As for offering more trophy tags for auction to raise money...I would vote "NO" but it isn't a "die-on-my-sword"-type of principle for me. I would rather see a...

The country needs a center right or center left Executive Team. Either way....it makes no never mind. We just need to lop off the extremes on both sides of the ticket and enact sensible policy reforms to reduce the National Debt and reign in entitlements AND rampant and extreme capitalism...

I could use some hints on where to hunt antlered elk in Unit 14. Here's why. My son-in-law, an avid outdoorsman, is seriously ill. He has been bedridden for the past three years. In some ways, this has been a blessing for me as I have had the privilege of mentoring my grandson, 13, through...

I have hunted Elk Mountain...and yes...it is blocked by private land. I hunted it through permission from a ranch. It is not available to the general public. However, the Feds do have the right to perfect public access to this land if they so desired or had the political will to do so. In...

This was an interesting and important thread until it got sidetracked......! Make no mistake....the Transfer law would result in a sell-off of public lands. Idaho was granted 3.7 million acres at Statehood. Idaho has sold/disposed of 32% of that land to date (@1.2 million acres)and is still...

The republicans remind me of the dog that chased cars.....and eventually caught one. The first quarter has been politically brutal as the reality of being in control batters them. The whole of the GOP got caught up chasing the car...i.e. building up unattainable and unrealistic expectations...

I suggest you contact the Montana Outfitter/Guide Association (5 Microwave Hill Rd, Clancy, Mt 59634(406) 449-3578). Ask them for a list of outfitters for the area you are interested in and any other information about the outfitter you wish to know such as complaints that have been tendered...

I would encourage you to contact the Montana Outfitter/Guide Association. Ask for references for this outfitter. 5 Microwave Hill Rd, Clancy, Mt 59634 (406) 449-3578

It would surprise most NRA members to know what national issues and political agendas the NRA actually spends their money on. After many years of being a gung-ho NRA member I read an article in the Readers Digest about charities and how most of them are scams hiding in a cloak of...

The restriction has nothing to do with the condition of the trail or road....motorized travel is restricted to routes OPEN to full sized vehicles. Essentially, the restriction puts all forms of motorized travel on equal footing...by restricting motored travel to the same routes. To find out...

I don't know how you define "southern Idaho" but I live in Northern Idaho and hunt, camp, hike and fish throughout the Northern Part of the State from Cambridge North. We avoid State lands because of their condition following timber sales. Very little of the State's lands that support...

The State of Idaho manages their lands better than the Feds? You gotta be kidding. Come on up to Northern Idaho and we will go look at Federal timber sales and State timber sales as well as Potlatch Corporation and Plum Creek sales side by side. There is no comparison between the condition...

I didn't put in for a single Idaho draw this year. Bought a Montana Combo license to hunt w/two sons in MT this years. Knowing it will take a lot of time to scout Idaho and MT and then hunting both states I decided against locking myself into a tight time slot (should I have been lucky enough...

Just recently, the U.S. House passed H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act. This bill incorporates an earlier bill introduced by our own Rep. Ra?l Labrador (R-ID), the Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act, which transfers the management of about 200,000 acres of...

I have, rather enjoyably, read down through all the posts. However, I see no compelling argument for singling out and granting any entity privileges the vast, vast majority of sportsmen do not get or can not take advantage of. As I read, I kept expecting someone to put forward the argument...

Well...I agree that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have people packing at large public events, but....I also didn't think it was legal for a private company to prohibit guns if a person is legally carrying. Last year there was a big flap about people bringing guns to Starbucks....and...

Excellent point. Research in Minnesota suggests that the 2200 wolves in that state killed and ate an estimated 33 - 42,000 deer in 2013! It will be enlightening as more research is done here in Idaho on wolf predation to see just how many elk are being killed and what ages are being killed.

There are "permit set asides" for outfitters in several Western States. I have always taken time to get my oar in the water opposing these so-called "set asides" by writing to State congressmen and/or the appropriate Game and Fish dept.....to no avail. Having lived and hunting in all of the NW...

Come on up to Northern Idaho and I could show you the marked difference between Idaho managed timber lands and Fed managed timberlands. We will simply pick any timber sale on either land and walk the creeks. Then go and look at how the slash was managed, how the roads are constructed, what...

I guess we can all go hunt without paying our "fee"...and fish too. Maybe this year I won't bother to renew my car tab "fees" and not pay my taxes. I might even start cutting firewood on the Forest without paying my 5.00/cord "fee" for a firewood permit. You can look at this fifty ways and in...

Poaching or taking animals through illegal means is rampant here in Northern Idaho. I wrote the IDF&G a couple of years ago about it and suggested they award a Super Tag to the person whose tip yields a conviction. My point was that there is no incentive or reward large enough to change...

My disappointment is with our legislature. We see them passing bills to benefit large landowners. We don't see them even considering laws to benefit those of us who pay our way by footing the bill for the conservation and management of our State's wildlife....wildlife which contributes many...

I noticed the recent State Congressional session managed to pass a new trespass law. Essentially, it allows landowners to put up a sign where a public road enters their property notifying the public that it is private land for the next X miles. They can even post a map on the sign showing the...

Thanks for weighing in w/Senator Risch. I hope every hunter and huntress in Idaho calls his office! Spread the word however you can. This would be a really bad precedent for our public lands. I have called the Senator's Washington office, his Boise Office and local office here in Lewiston...

Have you heard about the Upper Lochsa Land Exchange? The Forest Service is proposing to trade local lands near our towns here in North Central Idaho we all hunt, camp, ride on, gather firewood from, fish in and recreate throughout for 40,000 acres of cutover industrial timberlands up near Lolo...

Good point. Thanks. I killed my first few elk and deer with a war-surplus 8mm Mouser my dad bought for me from Montgomery Wards in 1964. He had the sense to put a nice peep on it for me...and I still have the gun and shoot it occasionally for the fun of it. Looking through the peep, the...

I missed two cows in Unit 23 during the Muzzleloader season. First one was 153 yards and the second 103 yards. Both elk were unaware that I was anywhere in the country. I had all the time in the world to get in position, set up my backpack for a great rest and wait for a perfect shot. I...

I did rattle (for two sessions). One overlooking an old field where we could see for over 400 yds and then later in a partial cut. I used the "can" and grunted some also. I have successfully rattled, "canned" and grunted bucks in this area in years past. To our knowledge (two of us hunting...

Have been out behind my place in Latah County. Seeing does but haven't seen a buck w/them yet. Was out twice in the new snow that came last Sunday night and again Tuesday. Did not see a single scrape in the snow and the tracks we did see did not indicate the frantic movement we often can...

Congratulations. The form of your buck is my favorite mule deer antler form. I have passed up some great looking bucks over the years that were heavy, wide and shallow looking for a buck just like this one!!!! What I wouldn't give to have an opportunity to take one just like yours. Sounds...

I will call the FS and explain what we experienced and how disappointed I am that we can not rely on their map and a double check through direct communication to find an area to experience a non-motorized hunting opportunity. In many ways, I sympathize with the FS. Asking them to police the...