Lets clean up this Mess a little more!
1st, When are we going to recognize that when we place an Elk on the mountain, we displace 3 deer? Along the time we seen Deer numbers fall, the Elk population Exploded! There's your missing Deer. When there's 20" of hard, crusty snow on the ground, They'er ALL Browsers.
2nd, Wasn't the Dedicated Hunter Program going to be the Cure-All for Deer herds 15 or so years ago? 10k people at 16 hours per year = 77 Full time positions for the division or 15 per Region, for FREE. I'm sure Montana, Idaho, Wyoming ect would die for that work force and IMHO do a Much better job at utiltizing that resource. It dosn't work and did nothing for stabolizing our Deer herds. Get rid of it and pick your season!
3rd, 29 units? There should be 129 units with, point restrictions. Example, in My back yard is the Nebo unit. Mt. Nebo is mostly roadless so 4-point or better with Loafer Mtn. thrown in there too. Leave Payson-Santaquin "Roaded" area an any Buck unit? Give all options to those different "Goaled" hunter's on each unit. I do realize that this will necessitate better patrol from our DWR which brings me to my final point.
4th, Make the DIVISION of Wildlife Resources, the DEPARTMENT of Wildlife Resources. Make them Earn their own $ and Keep it within Their own Department! The days of the DWR making the money for other Divisions such as Air Quality, Water Quality, The General Fund, ect. to spend/allowcate needs to stop. How often do we see Opassity violations from these industrys from just traveling down I-15? Issue some fines to our industerial polluters AQ/WQ guy's and fund your own program.
We can have a limited Elk harvest and a 360" bull on every wall, in each Utahn's home with a Poor Deer herd or a annual Family outing Each October with a tag in most hunters pockets, a choice of deer size/quality to hunt and an occasional opportunity to kill a spike to 5-point bull on a general season tag, But not BOTH. Utah was NEVER an Elk state!
Yak.
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security".
Thomas Jefferson
1st, When are we going to recognize that when we place an Elk on the mountain, we displace 3 deer? Along the time we seen Deer numbers fall, the Elk population Exploded! There's your missing Deer. When there's 20" of hard, crusty snow on the ground, They'er ALL Browsers.
2nd, Wasn't the Dedicated Hunter Program going to be the Cure-All for Deer herds 15 or so years ago? 10k people at 16 hours per year = 77 Full time positions for the division or 15 per Region, for FREE. I'm sure Montana, Idaho, Wyoming ect would die for that work force and IMHO do a Much better job at utiltizing that resource. It dosn't work and did nothing for stabolizing our Deer herds. Get rid of it and pick your season!
3rd, 29 units? There should be 129 units with, point restrictions. Example, in My back yard is the Nebo unit. Mt. Nebo is mostly roadless so 4-point or better with Loafer Mtn. thrown in there too. Leave Payson-Santaquin "Roaded" area an any Buck unit? Give all options to those different "Goaled" hunter's on each unit. I do realize that this will necessitate better patrol from our DWR which brings me to my final point.
4th, Make the DIVISION of Wildlife Resources, the DEPARTMENT of Wildlife Resources. Make them Earn their own $ and Keep it within Their own Department! The days of the DWR making the money for other Divisions such as Air Quality, Water Quality, The General Fund, ect. to spend/allowcate needs to stop. How often do we see Opassity violations from these industrys from just traveling down I-15? Issue some fines to our industerial polluters AQ/WQ guy's and fund your own program.
We can have a limited Elk harvest and a 360" bull on every wall, in each Utahn's home with a Poor Deer herd or a annual Family outing Each October with a tag in most hunters pockets, a choice of deer size/quality to hunt and an occasional opportunity to kill a spike to 5-point bull on a general season tag, But not BOTH. Utah was NEVER an Elk state!
Yak.
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security".
Thomas Jefferson