colockum elk hunt

[jstone]

Thing dont have to be difficult. only when the politics are involved

[br8kitoff]

I'm with Clockum.  I've hunted that area, mostly from 4 corners back to Winch hill down to Walter Flats, okay everything west of Arthur Coffin since 1990.  Lately the RMEF has been putting up gates on spur roads, but that only stops the people unwilling to drive around them! IMHO it ultimately comes back to the original argument that the YN refuses to properly manage their end. Oh, I hunt archery too.....nothing like the sound of a HP crack screwing up your September day!  Remeber to look for the beat up red pick up with Elk stacked like cord wood!

[dupedc]

Colockumelk - Thanks for all of your insights into the Colockum elk problem.  I have been reading your posts for quite some time and agree with your perspective.  I have been hunting up there for years and am willing to do just about anything to bring that herd back to its glory days.  Keep up the fight!

[Recurve-Elk]

road closures is #1 in my opinion.  i think that if they closed off the powerline rd from clockum to bruton rd it would be a great thing maybe even the bruton all together from where it forks off of the colockum pass. heck even if the bruton got closed from game reserve to tarpiscan fork it would hep the wildlife tremendously ive hunted it for 15yrs my dad for 42 and his father for 60yrs till he passed.  im 100% for doing whatever it takes to get the conservation and management in this beautiful area back to what it was when i was a kid im 24 now.  i know people will probably get all butt hurt on me saying to close these roads ive mentioned but honestly in my opinion the heavy traffic and wall to wall camps/hunters in these areas are hurting the herd. they basically have to make a foaming from the mouth b line from the game reserve down to the Columbia. if u drive up the powerline rd from colockum to bruton durring general modern firearm season id say u could probably count 20+ camps opening weekend the elk dont want to cross the powerline anymore cuz its an open shooting range. i was scouting up there a few years back and pushed a herd from cook canyon side of the colockum rd all the way to to the powerline and they would not cross in fact i turned back and returned to the truck and they followed me almost all the way back to the colockum rd the absolutely did not want to cross the powerline rd. im even down for a wildlife area closure to let the herd repopulate itself honestly if its for the best for the wildlife then why arnt we doing more conservation in an area that has reached an all time low for bull to cow ratio?

Agreed.  Too many units have roads going everywhere in them.  We need more wilderness, less road.

[C-Money]

I am dead set against road closures. There is more to the Colockum than elk. I ride ATV's up there and follow the rules. If riders are going off road and disturbing the elk, throw the book at them. I will not stand by and let folks close roads when I dont do anything wrong.