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Doesn't matter w/o management
Posted by Paul H on Dec 21 2005
What our game species need is the habitat managed so that there is a good healthy habitat for them. That means suitable food sources, the recent fires have been a good thing, and a balance of predation, as well as proper harvest levels. With healthy heards, there is game to be harvested by hunting. With no food, over predation, and excessive hunting harvest, there won't be the heards there once were. Some species are on the decline, others are increasing.
Who gets to harvest the game is a political issue, and has nothing to do with whats best for the resource. If too many animals are being harvested, the area is being poorly managaed, it doesn't matter if it is subsitence hunters, out of state fly out hunters, or in state sport hunters.
Access to game has always changed with the times, with or without mans input. For many people hunting has become more expensive and less successful. Just as the natives had to adapt to changing patterns in animal behaviours by moving their hunting camps hundreds and thousands of years ago, so to do many of us have to look at new areas to hunt when our old ones aren't as good as they used to be.
Figure out what is most important to you, if your current location doesn't provide the best hunting opportunities to you, then maybe you should move. If the areas you used to hunt aren't as good as they used to be, find another area. There will always be people that will be able to spend more time in the field than you, are closer to the resource, or can afford to access areas you can't.
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