Close any buck general open seasons in the East Okanagan and Kootenays

[Sofa King]

As much as many hunters on here dislike clearcuts, they miss the fact that clearcuts are actually mimicking large natural disturbance types. Fire suppression with no logging is a bad thing. Logging on the other hand is creating the same conditions as a fire does.

you been up the connector lately?
one giant clearcut from merritt to Kelowna doesn't help the mule deer.

[dana]

RU,
Just to clearify, mule deer are browsers not grazers. Coarse woody plants like aspen, birch, rose, saskatoon, falsebox, are what they are seeking in cutblocks.

[kebes]

my main reason for hating the "any buck" season is the flood of road hunters pounding the roads.

Because you have more right to be out there then everyone else does?

[dana]

you been up the connector lately?
one giant clearcut from merritt to Kelowna doesn't help the mule deer.

How big of an area did the OK Mtn Fire or the McLure Fire burn? Were they bad for mule deer?

[ru rancher]

man is responsible for the biggest decline of deer populations.
so then it's up to man to try to manage and balance those populations.
but then that only pisses off guess who? yup, man.

any hint at any restrictions to our harvests just gets some people so pissed off.
well guess what?
year after year of hunting seasons doesn't "help" deer #'s.
eventually at some point, every region sees a year or so of restrictions on something.
imagine if every single hunter filled all of their tags every year?
you don't think that would harm the deer populations?
shit, if everyone was successful, we'd see no deer for years.
and it's not just during the hunting seasons, game is being shot all year long.

they have to shut down fishing seasons some years as well.
same shit.
sometimes we can't do what we want.
sure, it's not always maybe even the proper solutions, but the closures don't "hurt" the #'s.
working on some habitat restoration projects doesn't increase their #'s right away.
increasing pred kills does, obviously, but not enough if the damage is already done.
sometimes we have to see restrictions come in.

my main reason for hating the "any buck" season is the flood of road hunters pounding the roads.

ya i agree with this te road hunters are in great numbers when any buck season hits cause of the dumb young ones may sound selfish but i always feel bad when iv bin watching a young buck with great genes growing all summer then october rolls around and some sees the buck on crownland and thats all she wrote for that buck last time i see it is them dragging it to there truck but i cant stop that and its totally legal so good for them cant save them all for yourself

[Sofa King]

Because you have more right to be out there then everyone else does?

did I say that?
no!

but I sure as shit prefer to hunt in less busy areas than have endless traffic roaring around.
who wouldn't?

[ru rancher]

RU,
Just to clearify, mule deer are browsers not grazers. Coarse woody plants like aspen, birch, rose, saskatoon, falsebox, are what they are seeking in cutblocks.

how come they love the alfalfa fields then? i wouldnt call that browsing but sure even then those plant dont grow well in the forest ompaired to open cut blocks

[ru rancher]

RU,
Just to clearify, mule deer are browsers not grazers. Coarse woody plants like aspen, birch, rose, saskatoon, falsebox, are what they are seeking in cutblocks.

i really dont see what your calling me out for what did i say that you disagree with cause i didnt say they didnt eat those things?

[Jelvis]

The fires made more deer, but the bucks got smaller, only living until three years old and BAM
Thank yah mam
kears my asp good bye, no where to hide my hide on a moon surface and the hunters luv it
now they can see us
Hahahahaha we need trees folks .. the deer need trees too, to hide behind or they die young
That's why more deer butts are smaller
Jel .. PHD in Know it Tall

[dana]

Dually,
Do you seriously believe that road hunting ceases to happen in the 4 point or better season? Like was said before most of the buck harvest happens to be the young and dumb bucks. Whether a yearling or 2 year old buck is a spike or a 4 point makes no difference to their smarts. Road hunters will still be harvesting young deer, they will just be young basket 4's. Road hunting has been going on in this province since the invention of the car. It ain't going to stop due to a point restriction. LMAO!