K
Kingsdeer
Guest
Here?s some pretty good evidence that the efforts to recover the Pauns ARE paying off. Check out the ?VIDEO? link on www.llotp.com . We haven't seen deer like this in these numbers for a while. All bucks on the clip were filmed in the last month. All live within a mile of each other and all of the best bucks on the clip will probably die the first week of September. While none are great, some are pretty good and given another year or two would be downright nasty. Not only that, given another couple of years to breed, our Paunsaugunt recovery would be well on it's way. This is by no means a representation of all of the bucks on Seives bench or in the Alton area, just a tiny cross-section.
Credit must be given where it is due and our hat is off the Adam Bronson and the change of heart shown by the Fish and Game in managing this particular deer herd. SFW definitely had a role in applying the political pressure to get tags cut and a new management objective established. Now, somehow we need to finish the job. The Utah big game board, SFW, local sportsmen and anyone really interested, need to demand the Alton CWMU step up to the plate and take tag cuts like everyone else ? not just glut themselves on everyone else?s sacrifice. At $11,000 per tag and with a new fence to keep deer off the Alfalfa, five or six tags a year had ought to be fair compensation? After all, the deer were there first.
Don,
I guess what I am saying is that YES, the Paunsaugunt recovery has begun and our thanks is sincere - but from my point of view (and lot's of other average guys) WHY GROW THEM IF IT IS JUST TO BE SHOT IN SEPTEMBER BY THE RICH. We don't even get to hunt these deer on our premium, limited entry Paunsaugunt rifle hunt. What's left after the CWMU slaughter are safely locked away during our rifle and archery hunts even though they will migrate down later to spend most of the year on public land.. Our public land means nothing given our hunt dates. Our public land that is habitat for OUR PUBLIC DEER for most of the year. Is habitat that big of an issue on the Pauns? So big that we have to pay for it with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Utah?s best deer year after year. Most of us don't think so. Hope we can talk in November. Hope we can get some thinking changed.
Sincerely
Lowlanders
P.S. : Don?t shoot the videographer. We are amateur?s but learning.
Trivia: Do deer wink? Check it out???.
Credit must be given where it is due and our hat is off the Adam Bronson and the change of heart shown by the Fish and Game in managing this particular deer herd. SFW definitely had a role in applying the political pressure to get tags cut and a new management objective established. Now, somehow we need to finish the job. The Utah big game board, SFW, local sportsmen and anyone really interested, need to demand the Alton CWMU step up to the plate and take tag cuts like everyone else ? not just glut themselves on everyone else?s sacrifice. At $11,000 per tag and with a new fence to keep deer off the Alfalfa, five or six tags a year had ought to be fair compensation? After all, the deer were there first.
Don,
I guess what I am saying is that YES, the Paunsaugunt recovery has begun and our thanks is sincere - but from my point of view (and lot's of other average guys) WHY GROW THEM IF IT IS JUST TO BE SHOT IN SEPTEMBER BY THE RICH. We don't even get to hunt these deer on our premium, limited entry Paunsaugunt rifle hunt. What's left after the CWMU slaughter are safely locked away during our rifle and archery hunts even though they will migrate down later to spend most of the year on public land.. Our public land means nothing given our hunt dates. Our public land that is habitat for OUR PUBLIC DEER for most of the year. Is habitat that big of an issue on the Pauns? So big that we have to pay for it with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Utah?s best deer year after year. Most of us don't think so. Hope we can talk in November. Hope we can get some thinking changed.
Sincerely
Lowlanders
P.S. : Don?t shoot the videographer. We are amateur?s but learning.
Trivia: Do deer wink? Check it out???.