their antelope permits and are asked to send more and more money 

 to one or more addional license while others don't get any. 

 Something is wrong with your system. 



I drove from Laurel to Miles City and spent 2 days asking to hunt 

 and being turned down. I spent one weekend around the Broadus 

 area and found I could hunt there if I wanted to pay the 

 individual ranchers anywhere from $2 5 a day to $75 a day. I'm 

 upset when I hear how some people get picked to hunt certain 

 animals year after year and some are never picked. Someone 

 programs your computers real well. Joke. 



It looks to me like the only thing the F & G is interested in is 

 how much more money they can collect every year. You manage for 

 numbers but don't care about the quality of hunting. I've 

 watched the F & G expand in Montana and how many toys they have 

 to play with (ATV's) etc. and watched the hunting go down the 

 drain. 



1) I would favor "either-or" if I could trust MDFWP to give me 

 the same length and areas of hunting opportunities we have now. 

 I want to be able to hunt whitetail with my bow in gun areas 

 during rifle season. 2) Why does MDFWP hate archery? Archery 

 seasons fit MDFWP objections of maximizing hunting recreation at 

 minimum impact to game populations. Opportunities should be 

 expanded - not threatened. 3) Why has MDFWP opposed archery - 

 only for special species (moose, sheep, goat)? Most western 

 states have some opportunities for archery only on some of these 

 species. 4) Is this type of questionaire being sent to gun 

 hunters? Why not? 



Do you have or should you have an Internal affairs dept . to 

 monitor waste, losses, embezzlement or theft in all departments 

 concerned with Fish, Game, Hunting and Fishing management? I ask 

 these questions because I am truly concerned for all. 



1) I don't hunt deer or bear, only elk, if I see a deer or bear, 

 I shoot it. Difference is motivation, no elk no meal ($). There 

 are too many and ill define districts, its very confusing altho 

 it does give you boys jobs. Also Fish and Game, while needed, 

 acts too much like a law unto itself, shows insufficent wisdom 

 and discretions. No I've never been afoul of them either. The 

 laws are to be obeyed. I simply disagree with the degree of 

 complexity you generate. Hunting districts should be defined on 

 a larger geographic scale, more use of roads as boundaries since 

 they follow geographical lines generally, less use of watersheds 

 since often one does not know when you've crossed a boundry. 

 Confusion creates disgust, disgust heads disregard. Its a 

 principal I've noticed over the years. 



I have hunted elk in Montana for the past 50 years. I have a 

 Masters degree in Biology and am acquantied with personnel and 



