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    road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    interesting reading the carpenter lake thread..
    many people commenting on number of hunters in there and the winter range and alpine range..

    not just hunter but quaders and bikers all coming up from the city.

    sound like someone did a great job ripping that access point out to protect the deer in there traditional ranges..

    region 8 could use a lot more roads ripped out post pine beattle.

    and most of region 3 -5 as well..

    sounds like region 3 bio got some help protect a very speacial area. we need more of this.

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    They have been deactivating roads in reg 8 pretty steady...its alright by me.

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    I support 100%.
    Id even donate my time with a shovel if needed

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    Atvs etc will always find a way.

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    Road de-activation....best thing ever for ungulates and hunters. I see they are pulling problem culverts that keep getting plugged causing flooding that some are blaming on global warming lol.
    The best contribution to wildlife in my lifetime.

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    If ripping up roads is done properly, it should keep out all motorized conveyances, including atvs and bikes.
    I have seen many large areas completely closed off this way. It's a preferred tool rather than close an area
    to hunting all together, or of deeming an area closed to motorized vehicles which often is ignored by cheaters.

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    Kind of an oxymoron, "sensitive habitat" and then allow clear cut logging.
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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    I agree that the road should be ripped out as soon as the tree planters are done.
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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    I am all for it. I commented in the other thread about a deactivation that I found in Carpenter lake. It was a massive chewed up road for more than a km. Never seen anything like it before and I have seen some pretty nasty ones. Just found it odd.

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    Re: road deactivations for sensitive habitat

    I too prefer road "obliteration" over "deactivation". I ditch or two won't stop quads and bikes but the kind of obliteration I've seen in a few local areas keeps everything out. I've looked at spots where you would not know that a road had ever been there. It keeps everything but the hardcore boot leather hunters out.

    My personal thought is that there should be a defined and limited Total Length of Road (TLR). In a given forest region. If you want to make another 20 km of road somewhere and your region has maxed out it's TLR then you have to go somewhere within that region and make 20 km of existing road absolutely unpassable.
    If an animal is going to die so that I might live, the least I can do is perform the unsavoury deed myself.

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