Recent content by smarba

Dang, I've never gathered nuts except to occasionally eat some as I'm hunting. Didn't realize it was a full-contact sport, including poaching/trespassing. But I have a particular spot in mind I'll keep an eye on for bear sign next fall!

So you're saying the wet weather doesn't necessarily help this fall, but the following one? And regarding how does it affect hunting (good one 2lumpy), my experience is where you find a bunch of pinons would be a good area to look for bears.

I agree with you GilaJeff.

Thx for clarification and mature dialog. In my opinion areas with smaller checkerboard ranches is where the oversale/kill of pronghorn occurs. Because one rancher thinks "If I don't sell the tag, my neighbor will, so I may as well make some $ while I can". Bigger ranches can manage their...

Since the hunt/tag is F/IM female/immature, that means females/does can be killed...no? And because logically there are more does running around and visible, does are probably more likely to be killed on that tag than immature bucks? Who knows, I may be entirely off base and ranchers actually...

As I stated, LOs can and do sell F/IM (either sex tags) corresponding to what hunts are going on. If ranchers are focused on getting rid of pronghorn that are eating "their" cattle grass, you can bet they are whacking the does... Another issue I've witnessed is the LO tags are supposed to be...

When LO can sell tags for either sex, corresponding to the hunts going on it surely can affect pronghorn population.

He's still out looking for one...

I am not familiar with numbers in that unit, but in NE I've seen a HUGE decrease in bucks and overall numbers that seems to correlate with the timing of unlimited private tags. Coincidence?

Thx for clarification 5year, so I'm left with the only reasons Rick hasn't received refund is the CC has gone inactive or changed? Or some internal NMDGF/charging agency glitch. Rick better call NMDGF and sort it out, because refund was long overdue.

The only reason you wouldn't have received a refund by now is if you chose to be put on the depredation list. I think. Not sure how they do that list these days.

SLM, I agree. There are some LO that provide benefit, others not so much. I've also seen drinkers turned off when cattle aren't around, so yes there may be some benefit to wildlife when cattle are there, but other times of the year nada.

It was my understanding the system didn't crash, it was too many people applying over the telephone that overloaded their staff so they weren't able to get through everyone on hold... We were reminded 8,565 times to apply, apply, apply. We had months to do so. IMO anyone who couldn't get...

HAAAA!!!!

For whatever reason areas I've seen birds in the past simply didn't produce any activity last year. And everywhere else I looked turned up empty too. Will be ready to try new spots this year while keeping tabs on old areas. Best of luck to all.