lands and then wants access fees should be stopped. 



The either or hunting of rifle to archery is a bad thing to get 



started. It will not stop poor hunters from being in the field, 



and there is no biological reason for it. It just denies hunting 



opportunities and gives the Anti-hunting community something to 



use to stop hunting. 



It will also start a lot of problems between the purist archery 



hunter and the hunter who likes to hunt in both seasons . 



The main thing that needs to be changed is the access to public 

 land. At fort peck the road to public lands are being closed or 

 a fee put on them so everybody is being forced into one small 

 area. 



Need way to tell private land from public land - Twice last year 

 was on public land but told by man (unknown) in truck this was 

 his land. Have seen orange posts on public land (painted by 

 hunters I think - ) 



Some of my frinds are getting locked out of hunting spots they 

 hunted in for years . this is not the American way when are you 

 people going to do something for your money? 



I also got a gate locked in my hunting area, that my dad has 

 hunted for 40 year and I have hunted for 30 years, but I have 



horses and we ride around the ranchers land now. What are my 



friends going to do? I feel the hunting area I go to every year 

 is a part of me, I don't kill elk every year I just go to be at 

 my old stomping ground. 



Why do you let the rancher ' s and farmer think they own the ground 

 they leased? The people of Montana do. 



This year was dry and I noticed there still was heavy grazing on 

 upper forrest service ranges which brought the elk down to 

 private land early. I don't believe in paying fees to hunt 

 public lands or private and money spent should not influence game 

 management laws . You put restrictions on picketing horses but 

 cattle graze any where. 



the biggest comment is about land access. Bob Lombardi and Siv 

 Siedensticker have closed access to forest and BLM ground so that 

 you can't hunt that ground without going all day to get on this 

 ground, they turned it into a private hunting facility. 



Thanks for asking for our input. 



I got lucky early this year usually Archery provides many more 



quality hours (you can' t shoot it just cause you see it. 



1) Charge me more if we can help keep access to public land - see 

 Bull Mountain closure. 



2) Charge ranchers full cost of range management to land (public) 

 that we cannt access. & charge them less (or nothing) if they 

 give a little & allow us access!! 



3) Close more old logging roads to raise Elk Security, Gun 



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