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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: wolfbait on April 25, 2024, 08:13:00 AM

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Title: Hired guns? Unlimited tags? Wyoming levels up elk killing efforts
Post by: wolfbait on April 25, 2024, 08:13:00 AM

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Title: Re: Hired guns? Unlimited tags? Wyoming levels up elk killing efforts
Post by: ducks4days on April 25, 2024, 09:29:20 AM

How many people were denied elk tags for the same units?

Title: Re: Hired guns? Unlimited tags? Wyoming levels up elk killing efforts
Post by: high_hunter on April 25, 2024, 09:55:06 AM

The segmenting of land by either conservationists or pay-to-play ownership certainly makes it a more complex problem. Sure seems like looser regulations or higher tag allocation could help combat the "super herds" while increasing sportperson opportunities. 

I can understand the frustration of farmers, ranchers, and other landowners about elk-caused damage; we have the same problem in the Skagit Valley.

Still hard to read about professional hunters being paid to reduce herd numbers...Same debate as Catalina Island deer, Olympic Park Goats, or other problems ungulates regardless if its in Wyoming, WA, or elsewhere.

Title: Re: Hired guns? Unlimited tags? Wyoming levels up elk killing efforts
Post by: nwwanderer on April 25, 2024, 12:07:48 PM

Not new, happened in WA around 1950 in the blues.  Probably should happen in the Skagit now.