of the elk calf crop and fawns. The last 4 or 5 years the deer 

 and elk herds have dropped in number significantly. If action is 

 not taken soon the herd will soon perish. A large percentage of 

 the hunters in this area will go to great lengths to prevent this 

 from happening. Most folks feel the wolves are the major 

 contributor to this factor and resent the use of our tax dollars 

 for the study of these horrible killers. I hope you people will 

 look into this matter. 



The Department of Fish and Game is trying to make hunting a 

 tourist attraction. These surveys don't pack much weight when a 

 government agency gets it in their head to do something. For 

 example, for the past three years Fish and Game officials have 

 been conducting meetings in Libby on the augmentation of the 

 grizzly bear. The meetings I attended, which were all they held 

 in Libby, showed the people didn't want the bears. Fish and Game 

 officials kept telling us "if the numbers are too many, we are 

 flexible." When the final draft came out, the numbers were still 

 the same as they were at the first meeting. Maybe our Fish and 

 Game officials needed to be elected and not appointed. 



The fish and game spend to much money on study and gates and not 

 enough on transplant of elk. To much money going in people's 

 pockets and not enough for game management. If cow and calf were 

 put on drawing during rifle season, it would eliminate herd 

 shooting by one person supplying meat for friends and relatives . 



I am disappointed in the fact that the Dept of Fish, Wildlife and 

 Parks are letting the USDAFS play politics with the elk herd in 

 area 560 by reintroducing domestic sheep grazing there in the 

 Meatrack-Carbonate allotments. 



You would think that the MFG Dept. would do as the sportsman 

 clubs ask. 



They are concerned enough to become involved in the problems and 

 solutions of game management and land conservation. 



During Archery season Fish & Wildlife personel should not fly 

 areas looking for radio collared elk. If they do they should 

 keep it to themself & not inform there friends of elk location. 



I believe block management areas shoul be open to archery 

 hunters. I called the Miles City Office and they would not give 

 me any areas of Block Management during archery or rifle season. 

 The funds to pay for this comes from we the citizens and we 

 should have the right to use them. 



In the matter of your management actions, I and several other 

 hunters think they stink! And we also having been thinking of 

 hunting out of state, if you keep messing with things. You have 

 a good thing going. Why spoil it? 



