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misner5
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Just got off the phone with a buddy of mine who lives in Idaho, said he went to an area he and I used to hunt on the east side of the Stanley basin in central state. Opening day of elk, no other vehicles at the normal parking spot, he hike two miles in before day light, glassed the normal elk magnet opening, no elk. Went down the ridge to glass another elk magnet opening, no elk, no sign. Visited the huge wallow below the saddle, no sign. Still hunted about 8 miles of premier habitat, no sign of deer or elk. Normally he would have seen elk at least and likely have shot one by this point. Here's the bad new's; the only sign he saw was that of wolves....it gives me a sick feeling in my stomach to realize that we've lost in a few short years what others have enjoyed, worked for and managed for decades...a healthy deer and elk herd. I've seen bighorn sheep in that drainage also, probably won't anymore. What the heck have we done....? or should I say have allowed to be done. Worse yet, it doesn't appear we can do anything to curb or reverse what's been done.
Anybody else have similiar experiences?
M5
Anybody else have similiar experiences?
M5