harry is right a 6 point season might save more than it kills by dummying them up.
harry is right a 6 point season might save more than it kills by dummying them up.
I picked up a very old elk shed in the gang ranch area years go.
Don’t have to go to Merritt, they’re around Crystal Lake as well. For a while, anyway...
If you connect the dots on locations where elk have recently moved into it paints a nice picture in BC. In region 6 we have seen the elk firmly established with some limited private land LEH, hopefully the increase continues and we get a 6pt GOS eventually. I better learn how to bugle...
old Elk sheds have been found in Lac Des Roches
Seen a FEW Elk over my 16 years at Bridge Lake and Area - Spring and late Fall they are ALL Transient ELK - RJ
There’s a proposed regulation change on the table for an LEH season on private land from mid November until the middle of February.
For both bulls and cows.
This also will open Region 5 elk legally to FN’s anywhere in Region 5.
So far....legally....FN’s have only been allowed to take elk in Region 5 that are homesteaded or habituated to living on hay fields or in feed yards.
Legally they can only shoot if the problem elk are identified to FLNROD staff who then contact a shooter and the meat is to go to the local band.
That’s what was to legally be done in Region 5.....that program has been disregarded.
Watch the slaughter start when the season opens....any elk will be open to any FN’s hunter within their traditional territory.
We’ll see how this plays out...my bet is it won’t be good for the elk.
Years and years ago we set up a Rocky Mountain Elk chapter in 100 Mile ...Lots of turnout ..Everyone was on board for an elk relocation program in region 5...The ministry was on board ...Hunters were on board ...but the Cattlemens Association was not ...This threw a Ky bosh into the whole program ..Our relocation never happened ...All I have from this era is a hat from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation ...Me thinks when the season opens any ranchers will look to have the elk shot off ..They are very strongly against elk in the Cariboo...Hopefully the elk can survive this opening ...I doubt it but Ive been wrong before....Dennis