working on wildfire in California and missed most of the season. 

 I do not feel that most bow hunters are as serious as me and my 

 hunting friends. Charging more for archery stamp may help if 

 general feeling in that there are too many people out there 

 harassing the elk during bow season. 



I think you should leave things the way they are I don ' t think 

 that archery season affects the game population at the present. 

 I don't run into another hunter very often. We have to many laws 

 the way it stands. Leave it alone. 



We need better control of people shooting game with guns during 

 bow season. We heard more shots and saw more gut piles during 

 bow season than gun season. 



In the breaks area's there are to many hunter that hunt there as 

 an extra season to there elk hunt. It sould be for the people 

 that hunt elk only with a bow. The F&G want to limit hunting 

 pressure in these area's. Why don't they sell "Bow hunting only, 

 elk tags for the breaks" this would be cheaper and easier then 

 anything they have come up with yet . 



Item II on elk hunting, Part III hunting pressure has not 

 disturbed elk as much as the use, either legal or illegal, of 

 ATV's in the hunting area. 



Item 13 part III elk hunting. The protection of spike bulls may 

 have a negative long term affect on elk herds. Many 1 1/2 year 

 old bulls may have branched antlers. These are the bull we 

 should protect. They are the ones that have the greatest 

 potential of becoming true trophies. In trophy deer herd 

 management the culling of spikes from the herd is encouraged. 

 Instead of protecting the spikes perhaps we should protect all 

 the bulls with less than 5 pts . 



I think that there should be a extra license fee of $100.00 if a 

 person wants to hunt with bow and rifle. This would eliminate 

 the poachers, that use archery season as an excuse to poach with 

 guns. (slob archers). The poachers already know they want to 

 gun hunt and won't pay the extra money to hunt with bow therefore 

 eliminating them. The $100.00 fee would also make up for lost 

 revenue from the decline in archer. Any extra money should be 

 used to buy up wintering areas for wildlife. 



I am in favor of increasing the archery stamp significantly to 

 pay for land aquisition by the F&G. 



