Too many road access to hunting areas Too much forest 

 destruction & indiscriminate logging. 



Your dept. needs to apply pressure to the forest/service to 

 insure better clean up of clear cuts. 



The area I normally hunt in 110 was logged off in the summer of 

 87, causing no natural habitat around the area of Rut for elk, 



I feel non-resident licenses should be limited more. I would like 

 to see less development in wild or wilderness areas, including 

 mining or geological exploration. 



In other words, more quality hunting areas and larger herds 

 (more animals) 



ESTABLISH MORE/ OR PROTECT ELK HABITAT FROM CANTINUED DESTRUCTIVE 

 LOGGING PRACTICES. 



I feel that habitat aquisition and quality maintanence is most 

 important to keeping healthy game herds. I'm in favor of raising 

 license fees to achieve this, and to reduce the number of non- 

 serious archers. I also feel the need for archery education 

 (mandatory for beginners), especially with greatly increasing 

 numbers of archers. I would like to see more branch-antlered elk 

 only restrictions applied in areas where this management strategy 

 would increase the number of larger bull elk. 



I would be strongly in favor of taking the last week of 

 archery season in October, and placing it at the end of rifle 

 season, (post season), ilthe proposal of adding two additional 

 post-season weeks was unpopular with surveyed archers or Fish, 

 Wildlife and Parks management objectives. 



I think we need as much winter range as can be preserved for elk 

 only . 



On Nat. Forest land noprivate grazing leases should be let 

 if deer or elk are in any way effected by the loss of forage. 



Montana ' s hunting is great largely because of superior 

 management, and I feel that an urgent priority to continue this 

 quality of hunting is to be purchasing as much winter range as 

 possible whenever (everytime) it is available. The herds 

 (especially elk) are no bigger or better than what their winter 

 range allows. 



Thanks for the opportunity to comment. Although I prefer rifle 

 hunting, I'll never give up archery. I've been at it since I was 

 7 . I moved to Montana so I could spend more time out doors in 

 some of the finest habitat in the world. Keep up the good work & 

 buy more winter range & help fight deficit timber sales in 

 defacto backcountry! 



to much logging going on during Bow season 



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