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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: yajsab on August 12, 2008, 03:23:33 PM

Title: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: yajsab on August 12, 2008, 03:23:33 PM: I have been curious for several years now. Do elks moved away when sheeps are feeding in their territory? If so, how long will they be back?

The reason I ask is because this guy always bring the sheep heird to feed around where we hunt every year. Some years he is still around come opening day. What do you all think about this? Why the WDFW let him do this?
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: andrew_12gauge on August 12, 2008, 09:54:34 PM: i know in eastern montana where there are deer everywhere when you get to an area with a herd of sheep i wouldnt see deer for a mile in any direction, might not have anything to do with the sheep though
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: spin05 on August 12, 2008, 10:47:07 PM: In winthrop when the cows come thru i see less deer.
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: yajsab on August 12, 2008, 11:00:41 PM: That's what I figured. Can this be stop?
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: spin05 on August 13, 2008, 06:39:50 PM: Not in Winthrop its open range land..
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: yajsab on August 13, 2008, 07:29:17 PM: This is in the cascades with clear cuts. Doesn't the guy need permit to do this? I wish WDFW will have a time limit for doing this kind of things in the early months only.
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: bowhuntin on August 13, 2008, 08:06:16 PM: I believe the WDFW has nothing to do with grazing. The DNR and BLM would probably be issuing permits. Sheep don't bother me, they feed sheep where I hunt. There sheep are part of them making a livelihood and hunting is just recreation, might as well get used to it. Hunt some where else in the unit that doesn't have sheep, the deer and elk have to go some where if they stay away from the sheep right?
Title: Re: Sheep feeding in elk area?
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on August 13, 2008, 08:10:09 PM: Quote from: yajsab on August 13, 2008, 07:29:17 PM
This is in the cascades with clear cuts. Doesn't the guy need permit to do this? I wish WDFW will have a time limit for doing this kind of things in the early months only.

Sounds like Tieton; if so, it's a US Forest Service grazing lease, nothing to do with WDFW. If it's Swakane and Chiwawa (only other public land allotment I know of), that's USFS also - but not the reason there's no elk there.