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Baiting or normal ranching practice?
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 2640963" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>I understand landowners leasing the hunting rights. Bummer for me, but not out of line. Problem is intentionally using poor ranching practices to attract game animals. Like planting crops and not harvesting them. Or running a few cattle on thousands of acres and feeding them tons (literally) of hay daily. Then getting crop damage compensation because the elk ate the crop. Then worse yet is when a ranch uses the excuse of patrolling the boundaries to keep unwanted hunters out, when they are in fact keeping the elk in. Then there are the properties that will haze animals, on land around theirs, into their property.</p><p></p><p>This goes on here at a level with elk that is hard for most to comprehend. We are talking about elk herds that would normally cover hundreds of square miles being congregated into a few thousand acres. These are herds of hundreds even thousands of elk. The fish and game is then unable to manage the numbers of elk through hunting. The only answer they come up with is to extend the season almost into calving. These shoulder seasons are only good on private land, making hunters think that the land owners in the area want them there. In fact it just puts pressure on ranchers that don't want three more months of hunters knocking on their doors. To my thinking this is causing more ranchers to just say no to any hunting. Just too much hassle to deal with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 2640963, member: 7999"] I understand landowners leasing the hunting rights. Bummer for me, but not out of line. Problem is intentionally using poor ranching practices to attract game animals. Like planting crops and not harvesting them. Or running a few cattle on thousands of acres and feeding them tons (literally) of hay daily. Then getting crop damage compensation because the elk ate the crop. Then worse yet is when a ranch uses the excuse of patrolling the boundaries to keep unwanted hunters out, when they are in fact keeping the elk in. Then there are the properties that will haze animals, on land around theirs, into their property. This goes on here at a level with elk that is hard for most to comprehend. We are talking about elk herds that would normally cover hundreds of square miles being congregated into a few thousand acres. These are herds of hundreds even thousands of elk. The fish and game is then unable to manage the numbers of elk through hunting. The only answer they come up with is to extend the season almost into calving. These shoulder seasons are only good on private land, making hunters think that the land owners in the area want them there. In fact it just puts pressure on ranchers that don't want three more months of hunters knocking on their doors. To my thinking this is causing more ranchers to just say no to any hunting. Just too much hassle to deal with. [/QUOTE]
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