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<blockquote data-quote="429421Cowboy" data-source="post: 799445" data-attributes="member: 54332"><p>We'll be up there doing the same, it is some nice Cutthroat fishing since they put in the fish gates so the Cutt's can't get to the lake and the 'Bow's can't get up the crick.</p><p> </p><p>We hunt the Dana ranch damage hunts most years, this was no exception! Can say we hunted elk nonstop from Oct season opener till Feb 15 late season close! The herds are pretty much the same, and once the shooting started in the late season ALOT of the cows slipped over the top into the Beartooth. We saw a few herds of cows but the snow was so deep it would have been impossible to get to them, you can see so far up there it sometimes means just because you can see them does not mean you have a chance of getting to them before dark. We did have a neat experience getting into a herd of about 60 bulls in the timber, they knew they were in no danger and stay on the same ridge from december till may. </p><p> </p><p>I have met the new manager, Jason from Oklahoma and he is a straight shooter, he manages all of their ranches around the country and will be here for 2 or 3 years before he goes back to OK and hopefully turns managment back to Todd, but as of right now, Todd still has a job there, but Jason is the manager. He said they weren't sure if they were going to allow Block Managment to continue until they came out and toured the ranch with him over Christmas and realised that the only way there will be any grass left up there is if they continue to kill elk, and they are over populated to begin with, IMHO. So he actually said with their go-ahead, he acutally wants to make access BETTER and easier for hunters so they could kill more elk. I quote; "I am not a hunter, but my opinion is if it is a damage harvest then they need to make it easier to actually harvest elk" so hopefully they do keep it open. This is all straight from him, no middle man, as of middle of january. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they actually keep it that way, rather than selling out to the highest bidder and locking us out. There are an aweful lot of state land sections once you start looking at the map as well, so they could be in a no win situation...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="429421Cowboy, post: 799445, member: 54332"] We'll be up there doing the same, it is some nice Cutthroat fishing since they put in the fish gates so the Cutt's can't get to the lake and the 'Bow's can't get up the crick. We hunt the Dana ranch damage hunts most years, this was no exception! Can say we hunted elk nonstop from Oct season opener till Feb 15 late season close! The herds are pretty much the same, and once the shooting started in the late season ALOT of the cows slipped over the top into the Beartooth. We saw a few herds of cows but the snow was so deep it would have been impossible to get to them, you can see so far up there it sometimes means just because you can see them does not mean you have a chance of getting to them before dark. We did have a neat experience getting into a herd of about 60 bulls in the timber, they knew they were in no danger and stay on the same ridge from december till may. I have met the new manager, Jason from Oklahoma and he is a straight shooter, he manages all of their ranches around the country and will be here for 2 or 3 years before he goes back to OK and hopefully turns managment back to Todd, but as of right now, Todd still has a job there, but Jason is the manager. He said they weren't sure if they were going to allow Block Managment to continue until they came out and toured the ranch with him over Christmas and realised that the only way there will be any grass left up there is if they continue to kill elk, and they are over populated to begin with, IMHO. So he actually said with their go-ahead, he acutally wants to make access BETTER and easier for hunters so they could kill more elk. I quote; "I am not a hunter, but my opinion is if it is a damage harvest then they need to make it easier to actually harvest elk" so hopefully they do keep it open. This is all straight from him, no middle man, as of middle of january. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they actually keep it that way, rather than selling out to the highest bidder and locking us out. There are an aweful lot of state land sections once you start looking at the map as well, so they could be in a no win situation... [/QUOTE]
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