in Helena. Again this year the guides get a percentage of the 

 licenses. Ive never seena questiner on how many guides we 

 should have in each area, and how many big game animals should 

 each guide be able to harvest. 



If there is buffalo living on private ranches why does the 

 ranchers have so much power in keeping the buffaloes in the 

 parks. There has never been a known case of the disease that the 

 cattle mens association is so affraid of the buffalo running 

 loose. They don't want the competition of the buffalo on the 

 land they lease from the governement. 



If archery hunters fees are increased to $20, so should rifle 



Outfitters should not be guarnteed a job. My job isn't 

 guarenteed, let free enterprize work. The animals are what you 

 need to manage but not outfitters jobs. Knapweed it a concern in 

 the mountains close roads for that reason, we can't afford to 

 fight weed spread by truck and ATV ' s (I'm not a farmer just 

 concerned) 



Don't let spikes be hunted, it's hard to hunt branch bulls when 

 someone killed him last year as a spike. 



I wish the out of state hunters would be drastically reduced also 

 pay hunting should be stopped. 



I feel less liscenses should be sold to out-of-state hunters. To 

 give Montanians a bigger chance to get their fill. After all we 

 live here. 



I think the outfitters are killing to many elk because of their 

 experience and time to hunt, the elk become to easy of prey for 

 the high paying dollars and the outragiously high numbers of out 

 of state hunters . 



I feel that we have enough wilderness and walk in areas. Should 

 cut down on out of state license. Also the wilderness & walk in 

 areas are only padding the outfitters pockets with out of staters 

 money and the people of Montana can effectively harvest the game 

 if we don't create more walk in areas and wilderness. Strong l y 

 believe in harvesting female over population with special permits 

 and late season hunts. 



The out of state hunters paying high prices for outfitters and 

 access are making it too expensive for the average Montana 

 resident hunter to compete. How long before only the rich will be 

 able to hunt? Reduce the non-resident lisences or find another 

 way to stop this trophy for a price hunting. I hate to see people 

 making a living off animals that the hunters support through fees 

 on lisences. 



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