It is a simple fact that the population has increased significantly thus a larger pool of potential hunters. Social media is a fact of life and there are those that exploit its' potential as providers and consumers of content. I would love to be able to park at a trailhead and walk to where game was ample and have the area to myself but I no longer know where that spot is. Times change. I have found that snowshoeing into the back country hunting predators is a very solitary pursuit. Lots of folks go home when it gets cold.

Edited to add that I would attribute much of the decline in hunt quality in the west to the widespread use of ATVs expanding the domain of road hunters. Noisy, stinky machines that bring the weak, lame and lazy to spots that they otherwise would never see.


mike r

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