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Title: Mudflow
Post by: elkspert on March 28, 2022, 07:16:32 PM
Anybody know what was going on in the mudflow last weekend?  Saw about a dozen trucks and a couple of ez up pop ups set up down there. I could glass a couple of trucks way down on the east end.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: haftard on March 28, 2022, 07:25:53 PM
i dont know for sure but i did see they had a volunteer event posted for pulling scotch broom and i think hawk weed. i would bet money a volunteer event for habitat restorations/ management
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: metlhead on March 28, 2022, 08:43:53 PM
Probably cleaning up all those darn elk antlers laying around. Someone could fall on one and get hurt. Been doing my part😀
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: fowl smacker on March 28, 2022, 08:54:25 PM
Probably cleaning up all those darn elk antlers laying around. Someone could fall on one and get hurt. Been doing my part😀
Hope not, because it's not open for shed hunting til May 1st.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: kentrek on March 28, 2022, 10:47:51 PM
i dont know for sure but i did see they had a volunteer event posted for pulling scotch broom and i think hawk weed. i would bet money a volunteer event for habitat restorations/ management

Seems like they tend to do alot of events right when the elk are sheding
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: dyhardhuntr on March 29, 2022, 08:19:08 AM
Probably cleaning up all those darn elk antlers laying around. Someone could fall on one and get hurt. Been doing my part
Hope not, because it's not open for shed hunting til May 1st.
That’s in the wild life area. You can go right up to the boundary but not in until May 1st. Lots of people just ignore that though. The gamers have been a little more vigilant the last few years. In my experience that area isn’t as good as it used to be for sheds.


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Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: Colby Otto on March 29, 2022, 08:25:36 AM
I thought you can just walk right into the gates that go to the mudflow, you just cant drive or ride any motorized vehicle befor may 1st
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: fireweed on March 29, 2022, 08:40:06 AM
It was a RMEF/WDFW work party planting, weeding, caging trees.  You need to plant trees this time of year (or earlier) for best survival
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: dyhardhuntr on March 29, 2022, 08:46:59 AM
I thought you can just walk right into the gates that go to the mudflow, you just cant drive or ride any motorized vehicle befor may 1st
It’s closed to all public access from Dec 1st to May 1st to help protect the wintering elk herd.


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Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: trophyhunt on March 29, 2022, 08:53:51 AM
I thought you can just walk right into the gates that go to the mudflow, you just cant drive or ride any motorized vehicle befor may 1st
It’s closed to all public access from Dec 1st to May 1st to help protect the wintering elk herd.


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unless it’s the WDFW or natives, then the elk are ok!
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: elkspert on March 29, 2022, 08:56:52 AM
It was a RMEF/WDFW work party planting, weeding, caging trees.  You need to plant trees this time of year (or earlier) for best survival
  Well what ever they were doing the elk were definitely moving out of there.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: Colby Otto on March 29, 2022, 09:01:40 AM
I thought you can just walk right into the gates that go to the mudflow, you just cant drive or ride any motorized vehicle befor may 1st
It’s closed to all public access from Dec 1st to May 1st to help protect the wintering elk herd.


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If you a few miles up the road to the north east i know you can walk in before may first. Spring turkey people hunt up in those gates,
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: dyhardhuntr on March 29, 2022, 09:52:13 AM
I thought you can just walk right into the gates that go to the mudflow, you just cant drive or ride any motorized vehicle befor may 1st
It’s closed to all public access from Dec 1st to May 1st to help protect the wintering elk herd.


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If you a few miles up the road to the north east i know you can walk in before may first. Spring turkey people hunt up in those gates,
You can go right up to the boundary which is the bottom of the valley no issues you just are not supposed to go into the mudflow itself until after the time frame.


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Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: Colby Otto on March 29, 2022, 10:29:01 AM
I thought you can just walk right into the gates that go to the mudflow, you just cant drive or ride any motorized vehicle befor may 1st
It’s closed to all public access from Dec 1st to May 1st to help protect the wintering elk herd.


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If you a few miles up the road to the north east i know you can walk in before may first. Spring turkey people hunt up in those gates,
You can go right up to the boundary which is the bottom of the valley no issues you just are not supposed to go into the mudflow itself until after the time frame.


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Ok thx for clarifying that.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: redi on March 29, 2022, 11:25:07 AM
You need a Weyerhaueser permit for all of their land up there.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: guardian on April 04, 2022, 01:36:20 PM
Correct you do need a Weyco permit to access through 3100 gate to get down to wildlife area. That wildlife area is closed to "all public entry".  until May1st. That should include volunteers and wildlife staff. Those elk should not be disturbed thats the purpose of no entry until they migrate back up river.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: LDennis24 on April 04, 2022, 01:41:14 PM
Planting trees and pulling weeds doesn't scare wildlife, but carrying antlers in your hands does... LOL This state is great
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: guardian on April 04, 2022, 01:47:16 PM
Right!? I watched those elk run through the river when the volunteers got close. Unreal. Bunch of hypocrites this wdfw.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: bbarnes on April 04, 2022, 09:29:03 PM
Here is what happened last year, and is going on this year.Number 1 shed hunters are taking sheds before May 1 st .Number 2 the tree planting hasn’t worked in 20 year to the tune of 4.5 million dollars.Number 3 closure means closure by definition,its extremely hypocritical for WDFW and RMEF,to be down there.Number 4 WDFW and RMEF picked up all the antlers last year,and I’m sure this year as well,then took them until the night before May 1 st then threw them back out.Also the big ones didn’t return word has they were auctioned off for some reason.Number 5 WDFW flying drones and driving below spooking the elk.WE THE TAX PAYERS own the wildlife and the sheds and without a public process they shouldn’t be doing what there doing.In addition master hunters have been involved as well, and is a complete contradiction to the ethics of the program.I personally called in a made a complaint about this and I urge all sportsman on this sight to do the same CHANGE COMES IN NUMBERS.
Title: Re: Mudflow
Post by: fireweed on April 07, 2022, 11:58:18 AM
You need a Weyerhaueser permit for all of their land up there.
a Weyerhaeuser permit is not required on the 3100 road that goes down to the mudflow.  Weyco has it a "carve out" they are calling a "public access corridor".  Its a non-motorized corridor.  Additionally, they also have a "public access corridor" up the 4100 to the DNR land.  Underneath their beneficent actions on these corridors are underlying easements that may provide public access anyway, if any one is interested in looking closely.
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