Chapter III - Block Management Then and Now 



Nineteen of the forty landowners no longer enrolled said they were 

 open to public hunting before enrolling and are still open to public 

 hunting. Three of the forty said they are closed to hunting to the 

 general public. Two of the three allow relatives to hunt. Eight said 

 they are open to friends/ relatives. Six are leasing. One is closed to 

 all hunting, and one charges a fee. Two landowners did not indicate 

 how they manage hunting. 



Table 9 shows the number of acres that have limited or no public 

 hunting for landowners not enrolled in the program. The 

 landowners are either interested in enrolling and have not been, or 

 are no longer enrolled in the program. 



Conclusion 



Based on information from the surveys, the current Block 

 Management Program opened some land for free public hunting. 

 Some of the land opened was not open at all to hunting, and other 

 land was open to limited hunting. Eighty percent of the land was 

 open to general hunting prior to the landowner enrolling in the 

 program. In 1998, block management comprised about of 

 24 percent of the land open to mule deer hunting. 



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