I have been in contact recently with J_T about elk.
He passed on some recent documents and all I have to say is "wow, what a mess".
Calf recruitment is low and bulls are to find to count, let alone any "mature ones".
And yes, I have been saying and arguing with one member here in the past that cats are on the rise.
I see them a lot more then ever before.
We have some serious issues going on.
I don't hunt some areas that others are complaining about, but that tell me that something in their neck of the woods
isn't going good.
And then I wonder why wolves show up in my area where the hunting wasn't bad.
I guess they are just looking for new food sources in new areas.
If you can folks, get out there and cull some preds.
For now, that is all we can really do.
We can really make the forests grow up any faster and some stuff is going to take industries help as well.
But preds we can do something about to balance the forest for our ungulates.