Search results
-
Stoking the fire
There's something about a special pair of pants. I've had this set of camp zipoff leg Cabela's pants since the 2000's. Today the crotch totally blew out while I was hunting. I was making a sweet maneuver to get close to a strutter in the field & the next thing I know my boys are gobbling out &...- Ben Lamb
- Post #107
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
-
Stoking the fire
High winds & rain yesterday and some work kept me from heading out. Sat this am on the roost but they headed the other direction. I did have a lovely conversation with the 4 toms above me, 1 to the south & 1 to the west. Rain starting at 10 & going through tomorrow. Dropping the kids off at the...- Ben Lamb
- Post #106
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
-
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
FWP's budget is set by the Legislature. The pay plan is encompassed in HB 13, and includes other state employees in about every agency. HB 5 is the Long Range Planning Bill that funds habitat conservation funding and new purchases like aircraft, new buildings, etc. FWP is not in charge of their... -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
The issue of pay is a complicated one due to the way Montana's pay structure is designed within statute. This, along with the need for some uniformity, and legislative reluctance to increase positions or pay, has led to some issues with retention of quality people, and it makes recruitment of... -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
The driver behind the structure for mule deer is not antler size or age class but herd integrity. Varying age classes help that for sure but the proposal is striving to maintain ample opportunity for everyone to hunt and take a legal animal without dictating antler size or through permits. The... -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Correct FWP has the authority enact those as they deem appropriate. -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
From a process standpoint: This proposal is for the 2026/2027 season setting process that FWP will initiate in spring of 2025, and be finalized in December of '25. The only exception would be legislative pieces which would occur in the 25 session. -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Not to pick on @EYJONAS! but since he brought it up. ;) The hunter pressure curve doesn't curve nearly as much if that happens, so the pulse pressure of no hunting of elk on public from Oct 1-31 and only cows on private in the middle of the month would be largely negated. Part of the idea is... -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Youth hunt stays as-is. No changes. Still tied to the MEA in-service days. -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
I'm sure they look forward to your proposal to add this in. -
Montana General Season Structure Proposal
One guy not tagged who was also super helpful is Rob Arnaud. Rob isn't on HT but has done a ton of heavy lifting here as well. Nice work, gents. The proposal isn't a 1-stop management shop for all that ails wildlife. It's a rifle shot to help restore some better hunting on public land... -
Highway songs. Friday music thread.
the Esashi Oiwake is a traditional folk song of Northern Japan that can be about the daily struggles of a fisherman, to a merchant slowly walking their goods to market with their donkey, all the way to the solemnity of the horse's footsteps as they chase after a murderer. Either way, it ain't...- Ben Lamb
- Post #94
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
-
Highway songs. Friday music thread.
Ladies & gentlemen, Mr Nat King Cole & his swinging trio!- Ben Lamb
- Post #89
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
-
Congratulations to @Big Fin, conservation leader!
Well earned Randy & crew!!- Ben Lamb
- Post #11
- Forum: Public Land Issues
-
Highway songs. Friday music thread.
Tell me your band makes speed in a bathtub and transports it across state lines w/o telling:- Ben Lamb
- Post #41
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
-
Can wolf management really be this simple?
Hunting culture is deep in Albania, especially with wolves and bears being totemic in the BCE/early CE era. Tons of illegal hunting for bears, with the illegal trade in wildlife being a large concern internationally. There is some guided hunting from what I can tell. But like a lot of former...- Ben Lamb
- Post #6
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
-
Stoking the fire
Letting the dogs in last night around 9, a lone gobble rang out across the road. Somewhere in the timber, about 1/4 mile from where I was watching a dog drop a load, hope waits. So does some soggy waiting. Windy, but sunny in the afternoon tomorrow and rainy conditions until Tuesday. There are...- Ben Lamb
- Post #105
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
