If it's habitat related,how come I have so many deer around my place in a rural residential area. Habitat sure isn't decreasing around here. In Colorado Springs, over populated deer are becoming a big nuisance. CPW is trying to figure up how to cull them.
If CPW would go back to sound wildlife management instead of trying to raise all the money they can suck out of hunters, you would see a big turn around in elk and deer populations.
Take a drive up the Ohio Creek road north of Gunnison starting about 1st rifle season and you will see a third the population of the eastern side of West Elk Wilderness, about 800 head, on the Castleton and Rock House ranches and this is happening all over Colorado.They need to find some way of getting those elk back on public lands during hunting season.
The predator is CPW. IMHO, CPW is issuing too many tags in Sept and the bulls are not breeding because of too much hunting pressure. Stop all hunting during peak rut so that more cows are bred then instead of later. . Stop all OTC archery tags. Limit archery tags to the same quota as ML tags.
Last edited by saddlesore; 11/25/18.
