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From: keith@clodii.columbiasc.NCR.COM
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Subject: Re: Question on Oregon Elk hunting
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Date: 5 Apr 91 12:40:59 GMT
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>From: Ralph Kinser <ralphk@hpcvra.cv.hp.com>
>awhere of. My question is "What is the benifit of having a limited
>number of hunters in the First season if there is no limit on tags
>for the Second season hunt?". Does anyone know the reason or have
>a good guess?

>regards
>Ralph 

I would like to offer a couple of guesses since this is open to anyone
even though I am a long way from Oregon and we don't have any Elk. :((

1. The Wildlife Dept in Oregon may possibly have noticed a drop in Elk
   herd size from a year ago and therefore have decided to restrict the
   number of hunters the first hunt period which should reduce the
   number of Elk taken.  Hopefully, by the time the second hunt comes
   in the Elk will have wised up and be harder for a hunter to get
   his/her limit.

2. This reduction in hunters during the first hunt period will allow
   more of the dominant Bull Elks to mate with the does during the rut
   thus keeping the gene pool at a high quality level. 

Naturally, these are my opinions and I reserve the right to be wrong
at any time of my choosing! ;)) You could always contact the wildlife
dept. and ask to speak to a game biologist. That's why they are there.
 

P.S.  A request to all who post on rec.hunting...Sometimes I
      will read a post that I find interesting but it's hard to
      determine the area the poster is from just by looking at the
      address or the .sig file. So how about something in the
      subject line or your .sig file to indicate your home state or
      the state you hunt in. This helps me to get a better
      perspective of what hunting is like in that particular state
      first hand. Other than that I think we have a real good group
      going here and look forward to reading my mail first thing in
      the morning. Thanks alot everyone!!

                                                   Regards,
                                                    Keith 
 
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