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Modern-day maps, computers, cameras, and other sources are amazing sources to use for scouting. There are a lot of tricks that can be used to find bigger bucks and bulls! If you do google and other searches you can find photos and videos of the "Snakes".

It's the cheat.....grass!

Whatever Buzz! Colo is full of great nonres hunting options! Come spend your hard earned cash in Colo to benefit small town economies and Colo wildlife!!!

Good luck! It comes down to Wyo wildlife benefiting from the financial backing and support from big nonres $! The residents of Colorado are well aware of the importance of nonres $ and support for wildlife management and the economic boost to small town business. Colorado nonres also have...

Nonres can thank the outfitters for screwing every nonres out of a hand full of m/s/g/b tags! It was total stupidity by the outfitters thinking they would get something else in exchange...which we all know never happened in the worthless task force meetings. D/E/A carry a lot more financial...

I firmly believe 90/10 will never happen. We've been debating the stupidity of 90/10 for d/e/a for the past 15 years and it's never come even close to passing. The WG&F would not be able to rectify slitting it's wrists by fruitlessly cutting their current budget that overwhelmingly is...

There are a lot of nonres hunters in "no mans land" in regard to drawing the top tier units with the current nonres tag allotments. Obviously, some of the lower tier units are a possibility but getting tougher to draw each year with current tag allotments. If 90/10 ever happens it will take...

The big winner in all of this is the WG&F. An even larger chunk of revenue is gained by raising prices for nonres tags. If 90/10 ever happens you can be guaranteed new applicants won’t start and old nonres will drop out of the current easy pref pt $ for the WG&F like flies. Yes they will sell...

Good report, thanks! I would agree a lot depends upon how far deep snow moves the majority of antelope. The same can be true during drought summers with lack of water. There have been a few years when reservoirs and water sources totally dried up and moved antelope long distance. Combine...

With tags in such high demand, it is pretty sad that landowner tags are currently unlimited. As JM eluded to, tags are segmented into nonres and res landowner tags but are taken off the top of limited tags issued prior to any drawing. Every res and nonres landowner that qualifies is issued...

With deer and antelope numbers so low and so few tags available to so many nonres I doubt if things will change much. Take a look at how many units only offer 0 to 2 nonres tags in limited units. There is a fair chunk of units that offer 0 nonres tags after landowners take their chunk of tags...

Marburg is probably right that nonres are willing to pay for a good product. With all the increases in elk tags and pressure put on elk the quality experience and quality of bulls is likely going to spiral. It takes a lot of years to grow quality bulls and doesn't take long to change the...

This study was designed to evaluate deer preference to cheatgrass vs sites where cheatgrass was controlled using game cameras. We also monitored native forbs, shrubs, grass, and cheatgrass biomass at these same paired sites. Photos were totaled monthly of deer that were actually browsing...

I've pretty much just touched the surface of all of the detailed cheatgrass research we've conducted the past 10ish years. I thought I would add another sample in this post. We have a new publication in the works looking at preference of mule deer to areas where dense cheatgrass has been...

Ask An Expert: Mike Pellant, Rangeland Ecologist (retired), Bureau of Land Management Learn more through this NEW webinar series: Moving the Needle on Cheatgrass: Putting What We Know into Practice What is cheatgrass? It’s an annual invasive grass that is native to Europe and eastern Asia, not...