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Offline Todd_ID

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Re: salt lick
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2009, 10:27:07 PM »
I'll have to get some pictures this summer of a couple salt licks that haven't been salted in probably 15-20 years.  Idaho used to allow hunting over salt, but they don't anymore.  Some cabins that we go to in the summer have a salt lick that can hold 30 elk without seeing them from ground level.  Another about a mile away is big enough that you wouldn't see me standing on the roof of my house if it was in there, and my house is 3000 sqft and 2 stories tall.  Every single morning and evening you can expect to see an elk herd coming in.  The amazing thing is that when a tree falls into the lick it must absorb the salt, because the elk eat it like nothing you've ever seen.  An 18" diameter fir will last only 2 or 3 years laying in the bottom of one of those licks.
Bring a GPS!  It's awkward to have to eat your buddies!

Offline SHANE(WA)

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Re: salt lick
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2009, 01:20:59 AM »
wow, I saw one in ID one year u coulda parked a car in

 


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