Elk herds all over Colorado are dropping each year. The unit I grew up hunting in (and my family hunted for over a century) was determined to be over populated and from 2002-2007 6500 elk were killed thru culling and unlimited licenses. Now over ten years later the elk herd still hasn’t recovered. The unit we switched to six years ago is starting to get less and less elk. For example the unit probably doesn’t have more than 1000 elk but in 2016, 8500 hunters hunted the area from archery to fourth rifles. Makes me wonder what the CPW is thinking, oh wait there thinking about money.
Then the local ranchers start complaining about to many elk in their fields which is caused from so many hunters pushing the herds. There’s no easy answer. Less tags would be a great start. I’d be fine with only drawing a tag every other year if it resulted in a better hunt. I’ll stop there because I could keep going for hours.
