Managing Wildlife Into the Ground? | Fresh Tracks Weekly (Ep. 63)
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This week we’re going to talk about how hunting regulations impact wildlife populations and how people often over emphasize the impact hunters have on wildlife.
In Nebraska, a bill was introduced that would transfer money out of the state game fund into the general fund along with transferring money from the Habitat fund and State parks fund into the general fund.
In British Columbia the first cases of Chronic wasting disease were recently reported.
In Alaska the State has updated the regulations for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd to reduce bag limits for all hunters.
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Fantastic discussion! I just retired from NM Department of Game and Fish after a 28 year career in wildlife management. I agree that most regulations and decisions are really based on the social impacts instead of biological impacts. Agencies could do a better job of educating hunters on this instead of creating the illusion that wildlife management is rocket science. Keep up the good work that you guys are doing!
Great conversation today! Like Randy, I have sat on several Game and Fish task forces, and been involved with our Commission and legislature for about 45 years. I love that you stated that habitat, weather, and disease have a far greater impact on wildlife populations than hunting. In my home state of South Dakota, far more deer are killed by vehicles than hunters according to studies by game biologists. One important point you may not have expressed strongly enough, is that in most states, especially ones like mine where the land is somewhere north of 90% private, landowner tolerance, along with public tolerance due to vehicle damage is the main determining factor in ungulate game herd management. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your work for wildlife and hunters.
One of the best conversations regarding habitat and outside influences i have heard in a long time thank you gentlemen!
Would love to see Marcus finish his doctorate in wildlife and get some credential and respect when he talks to state reps about how their messing up our wildlife. He could become a real powerhouse in the hunting arena for many years.
Have to echo the positive comments written by others... Marcus, this was one of the best conversations about habitat and herd populations and the impact of hunting in a very long time. Excellent job moderating this discussion and adding key points! Randy was also dead-on, Marcus; you are excellent at providing lay explanations. Thank you.
Great conversation gentleman! Thanks
Wildlife harvest can be additive if inadequate research is being conducted to determine harvest rate impacts as well as external factors such as weather, disease, habitat quality and voluntary reporting of hunter success rates.
Great information Marcus, Randy
In the end with social science, our population growth will have it down to wildlife parks to look at our wildlife and not hunt.
As much as we put into the Pitman Robertson Fund- “MILLIONS OF $$’s- instead of the states taking it for lower property taxes, can we not delegate “our” money towards better habitat for our majestic wildlife, creating food plots in select areas to graze instead of land owner crop damage? Instead of letting the governor of wyoming illegally buying non native Canadian wolves and just “releasing” them into the wild to eat our wildlife.
All do respect for what FreshTracks already does putting out this valuable information for our community. It’s our money not the states slush fund to divvy out to tailor to their wants.
Anyone feel this way besides myself?
Excellent discussion. In Ohio the DOW manages deer numbers to a very low rate primarily to reduce deer / automobile accidents. The DOW is controlled by the insurance industry. Also anti-hunters promote high limits to eradicate deer to eliminate hunting.
I can say that in Colorado ever since I started seeing more mountain lions the deer population has gone down a lot.
When the wolves get moving there won't be any deer at all!
Matt Rinellas hunt quietly podcast has some good points to validate upon this issue
It is a lot more complicated than people think, yes, but a lot is out of our hands. What can we do? Limit access, tags ect.
Thanx
And Marcus says he’s not an expert.
Herd size is not synonymous with herd health. You do need age class diversity for a balanced healthy herd that promotes fitness.
Maybe we should limit every hunter - hunting in the USA - limited to 5 limits per year, across all possible limits in the 50 states.
#1 issue wth wildlife populations is the fact we have publicly owned animals on private property where wildlife that are noticed are mostly unwanted.
In far north California, poaching, vehicle mortality and high predator take far outweighs hunter harvest. Lion kill, and now wolves in the northeast areas are taking a serious toll on herds. Pot farmers up here have poached off tremendous numbers of deer since they chew on their plants. I have hunted here for 50 years and the changes are dramatic in the numbers of deer out there.
Hey when are you going to post your big horn sheep hunt I been waiting for months to see it lol
Is fresh tracks weekly on the podcast?
We use science to manage the herd to social goals.
410 and 417 going to limited draw an indication of a healthy population or a struggling population?
Of mule deer
@@ryanevans90 According to biologist, down 70-80%.
@@nt3523 that’s not what I wanted to hear :(
Marcus: Science is never "social", it may be incomplete and/or applied in a social context however it is an objective process whereas Randy's social aspects of wildlife management are entirely subjective although they may sometimes be informed by true science. Why is it that we try to achieve objectives using a subjective approach?
Management is the application of science to social dynamics, or the application of social dynamics to the science.
Concur with your former as I initially stated however the latter approach invariably fails.@@Fresh_Tracks
I can assure California has done catastrophic damage to the deer herds, with there policy on predator "lack of control ". Plus the environmental factors have not helped in any means. Some of the environmental challenges have been mother nature controlled, but also a vast environmental impact has come from the forest service or "forest circus" as I call them, with there policy on forest management. It truly is been devastating on our herds. Also in return the fish and wildlife sale way to many tags for most general zone areas. Which I get generates money, but also doesn't help deer population.
Hey, dont explain why my views might be wrong. Complaining is occasionally all I have.
Love to watch the HUNTING VIDEOS all the talk... Not so much
Then don't watch a talk show, that's what fresh tracks weekly is, ya goober
That's fine. Given that, this channel might not be one you love. We talk about important issues, no matter how many people watch. There are a lot of other channels that shoot multiple animals in every video and ignore the important concepts of conservation, access, wildlife management. So long as I own this channel, we will do more of these videos, likely more of these than the hunting videos.
Very important issues to consider. I hunt Montana a lot. With the herd counts down in a lot of areas I have a very hard time seeing the number of doe tags still allocated. This has to change. Revenue cannot be the driving factor.