Great backcountry article in Field and Stream

[WAcoyotehunter]

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/conservationist/2012/04/our-last-wild-places-and-why-they-need-stay-wild#comment-816997

Great article from field and stream! 

[Miles]

Thanks for posting that up.

[Knocker of rocks]

 

[blackveltbowhunter]

 

[mfswallace]

        

[huntnnw]

I agree with having some protected areas, but a prime example here in WA is the salmo-priest...I do not agree with the adding of 355,000 acres to it..we protected the gem of this already. The area is protected from logging and it shows with the amount of animals that inhabit it..its void of elk, mule deer, whitetails and moose...you can travel the boundaries of this area and the population of ungulates is ten fold..reason its logged and it creates abundant and nutritious food. This area is not like areas of the west where forest fires are prevalent and open parks in the mountain ranges provide openings in the canopy and abundant wildlife for those who travel into them to hunt. I have been in the salmo alot and yes its beautiful, scenery, solitude and hiking..hunting not so and it really it just sucks

[WAcoyotehunter]

There is no plan to add 355k acres to the salmo.  I Do not have any idea where that number or idea came from, but it's not a consideration at all.
You're right- our management practices have created some serious moose/elk/deer habiat, but the salmo is the last stronghold for caribou, wolverine, griz, lynx, fisher...  Just because it's not full of huntable species doens't mean it's useless to wildlife.

[shanevg]

There is no plan to add 355k acres to the salmo.  I Do not have any idea where that number or idea came from, but it's not a consideration at all.
You're right- our management practices have created some serious moose/elk/deer habiat, but the salmo is the last stronghold for caribou, wolverine, griz, lynx, fisher...  Just because it's not full of huntable species doens't mean it's useless to wildlife.

 

I don't know anything about adding to the Salmo, but we have plenty of land open to logging that is great habitat for deer and elk. I'll take more roadless country any day.

[Knocker of rocks]

There is no plan to add 355k acres to the salmo.  I Do not have any idea where that number or idea came from, but it's not a consideration at all.
You're right- our management practices have created some serious moose/elk/deer habiat, but the salmo is the last stronghold for caribou, wolverine, griz, lynx, fisher...  Just because it's not full of huntable species doens't mean it's useless to wildlife.

 

I don't know anything about adding to the Salmo, but we have plenty of land open to logging that is great habitat for deer and elk. I'll take more roadless country any day.

 

[huntnnw]

well there was not to long ago..it was on the news here...355,000 acres in WA and ID... it was a big issue in North ID as well and from what I gathered it was all but over and a done deal

[Elkaholic daWg]

There is no plan to add 355k acres to the salmo.  I Do not have any idea where that number or idea came from, but it's not a consideration at all.
You're right- our management practices have created some serious moose/elk/deer habiat, but the salmo is the last stronghold for caribou, wolverine, griz, lynx, fisher...  Just because it's not full of huntable species doens't mean it's useless to wildlife.

 
Great place for high wolf concentrations. wilderness will bring us that

[Skyvalhunter]

Don't forget there is a push to add more to the North Cascades National park and there will be no hunting there.

[shanevg]

Theresa's a big difference between wilderness an National Park. Everything they want to add to the NP is already wilderness. The only thing it would gain is limiting access and user groups like hunters. You want to talk about something that really pisses me off lets delve into the NC NP expansion. 

[Knocker of rocks]

Theresa's a big difference between wilderness an National Park

Everything they want to add to the  (NC)NP is already wilderness

Actually not.  There is very little or zero present Wilderness in the proposed NCNP addition.  Much of the land was logged in the fifties to (?) late seventies, and was thought of as unsuited to Wilderness using the more stringent criteria of Wilderness which was common in the NW up to about 1984. 

[WAcoyotehunter]

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Theresa's a big difference between wilderness an National Park. Everything they want to add to the NP is already wilderness. The only thing it would gain is limiting access and user groups like hunters. You want to talk about something that really pisses me off lets delve into the NC NP expansion. 

That's right.  Also- don't be confused by the terms backcountry and wilderness.  Backcountry is not defined by any political definition.