hand. Both fixed and rotary pwoered aircraft fly the gates 

 everyday with no penalty or warnings makin gelk hunting with a 

 bow a circus like event. Next year I'll hunt in Wyoming. 



Late season on 1-24-88 snowmobiles in hunting distric 310. About 

 4 melnem but they were not taking out any elk. It was after 

 noon. Still they shoudl not have been in there. I think they 

 were lost. All-terrain vehicles should be aware of where they 

 are at. 



I have been gone from Montana for 10 yrs . upon return to the same 

 town again I found access to be much more difficult to obtain, 

 plus the no. of deer seemed very much depleted. With mature 

 bucks being the exception. We need more 4X4 areas and shorter 

 gun seasons. 



I would like to see more branch antlerd areas for elk and four 

 points or better areas for mule deer. For both rifle and bow 

 hunters. -I would also like to see more roads closed to vehicles 

 and less logging in areas that have already been heavily logged 

 and when logg operations pull otu the roads should be premantly 

 closed-like in the Bangtail area. 



I feel bow hunting should be open to all districts. There 

 shouldn't be any permits for hunting in one district. We shoudl 

 be able to hunt using a horse and 4X4, or 4 wheeler or 3 wheeler. 



I hope someday that there is more access roads opened to Naitonal 

 Forest lands durning seasons, not new roads just opent he gates 

 on the roads that are there. 



I don't get to archery hunt as often as I would like to because 

 of my job but I enjoy every minute I am hunting. I do feel the 

 locked gates in the areas I hunt discriminate against me in favor 

 of the horse riders who already have thousands of acres of 

 wilderness to hunt. 



I fell that this state has to much wilderness. 



The only access is buy horse or walk I don't ahve time to walk I 

 belived motor bikes should be legal in all areas. 



I think ATV's / motorcycles should be able to be used for game 

 retrieval . 



I think the areas you have closed off (walk in only i.e. 2917 

 really stinks, it shuts down alot of area to bow hunters. I like 

 the challenge of bow hunting but I don't believe that we put that 

 much pressure on the big game. I would like to see the those 

 areas more acceasible for bow hunters. 



To many (forest service) lack gate for warm weather hunting hard 



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