land turned into wilderness areas. 



Thank about getting rid of cattle in National Forst 



I believe bowhunters are itiroe successful due to mor eknowledge 

 books, tapes, semianrs, bugles and cow talk, but I think the real 

 problem lies with the loss of habitat and the continuing timber 

 sales, road access and geneal mismanagment of our forest lands. 



I feel by far the most important aspect of managing Mt. game is 

 preservation of habitat for elk, bear and moose. The USPS 

 acknowledges the "Bob" and other areas are over impacted. If our 

 largest wilderness is overused and threatened, then the quality 

 and quantity of wildlife habitat must be questionable statewide. 



The bottom link is get rid of our congressmen who don't even want 

 to protect 1 million acres of 6 million acres of remaining 

 wilderness!! Idiots. 



I feel areas 201 202 203 123 122 can support lots more elk than 

 is currently there. There is an over abundance of elk feed. 

 Some of those elk from Yellowstone should be tranplanted to these 

 districts. Maybe even a few buffalo. 



The worst problem in the Groveleys and Tobcco roots where I 

 uusully hunt is the reduction of canopy cover and roads. Your 

 archery hunting program is the best hunting program, you have. 



Access to some forest service land should be increased such as in 

 the crazy mountains. Acquisition of winter range should be a 

 priority. The elk herds in my area could stand to increase quite 

 a bit (Flathead) I would not be opposed to a bowhunter education 

 program. 



(1) I am strongly opposed to the use of cross bows by the general 

 public durring archery season. However, I would like to see 

 cross bow use allowed for the handicaped durring archery season. 



(2) It concerns me that the U.S. Forest Service allows so much 

 massive clear-cutting in prime elk areas. It would be great if 

 the USFS would try and work more closely with the Wildlife and 

 Parks Dept. of MT before decisions are made concerning which area 

 and how many acres of "lumber" are to harvested. 



We must protect our wildlife habitat even at the cost of putting 

 corporate financial gains behind wildlife gains. 



I appreciate all conserns with wildlife conservation and 

 distribution and I am for all conservation and habitat laws. 



A drastic limit in open range grazing. Wildlife are being forced 

 to compete for food and water with a much larger population of 

 domestic stock. In the end the wildlife are the Isoer. Ranchers 



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