Pay hunting is a slap in the face to Montana Sportsmen. 



Need more places to hunt without having to drive to Wyoming. 



I feel the Fish & Game Department has sold to many deer 1 incenses 

 in Eastern Montana in the past years . Depleted a well 

 distributed deer population for monetary gain. Ranches & 

 extremely rough country have keep this problem down in spots by 

 not allowing hunting which is not what we want but is needed if 

 the fish & game continue to sell outrageous numbers of licenses. 

 They sold up to 5 permits a person. People slaughtered whole 

 herds of deer destroyed some populations . And not in problem 

 areas. I have a small ranch and in order to keep deer I have to 

 run hunters off. This would not be so necessary if there were 

 good populations of deer elsewhere. This year hunters were 

 shooting deer (does or whatever) wherever they seen them. This 

 will cause more Farmer Rancher, - hunter, Fish & Game Problems. 



We need more access to public land. 



More access should be made available to public lands, which are 

 surrounded by private lands. I also think that all cow tags 

 should go to the resident first. If any are left then they culd 

 go to the out of state hunter. 



The most important area of concern for my elk hunting is access 

 to public land. 



I do not care to hunt on private land and absolutly will refuse 

 to pay access fees, to private or public. 



I would like to see tag law changed from land owners to block 

 access from hunters going to BLM or state land, or being able to 

 charge for that access . 



PS This is a very good questionar you should do this every year 

 and also for gun season hunters also. 



I feel the biggest problem, we have as hunters, both archery & 

 rifle is access to forest lands. I hope that the problem can be 

 curtailed in the near future. I know it is very hard for your 

 dept. to control harvest of animals under these conditions but 

 keep up the good work. 

 As a whole, the hunter is on your side. 



I would like to see access through private ground to public 



hunting areas. 



Ranches leasing public ground for cattle feed should be required 



to let hunters on this ground when cattle would not be 



endangered. 



I am really unhappy that a few seem to be able to lock up access 



to public lands for all kinds of recreation. 



I am in favor of more logging it provides more big game feed. 



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