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The wife and I went to a great prime rib dinner tonite sponsored by the Fish and Game for those ranchers participating in the Montana Block Management Program.....Got to visit with a couple old longtime breaks residents.....
They showed a good 15 minute movie that F & G and Montana Stockgrowers put together- mainly for all the hundreds of new out of state landowners that are buying up the state- trying to convince them that they need to work with their neighbors and the state to manage game- and not try and turn everything into a California owned private wildlife sanctuary- trying to show them how their sanctuary can wreck a neighboring ranchers livelihood....Good movie- sad that its had to come to this...Only real gripe they got was that it was all filmed in the western part of the state and had all western landowners inteviewed.....
They also commented that everything tested for CWD again this year was negative- altho it has been found just across the border in Saskatchewan...They plan to test every year from now on....
One thing I didn't need a meeting to tell me was that the deer and elk population is out of control- especially with the easy winter-- but I didn't reallize it was as bad as they said... Deer population is something like 40% above the record highest count...Elk population in the Missouri Breaks is 50% above what they want...Normal is around 1100 head-- what they like is under 1500 head-- this year their counts are showing over 3100......Time to oil up the old .308....