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Old Mossy Horns
Do you support the NCWRC trapping elk (from the current NC herd or elsewhere) to public game lands open to hunting to create a "huntable" herd on public land in NC?
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They don't have huntable numbers now, how could you trap from them?
We don't care how they do it up there.
Good point, with that being said then there is plenty of deer to be hunted in the western section of the state using that logic with no need for habitat enhancement. In fact you could hunt elk if there was just one.You can hunt a herd of elk numbering 150 animals (about what we have now) regardless of how they do it elsewhere
That's what's happening now with the elk coming out of the park and finding farmers' fields more inviting. The only benefit I see is that they could become the 'poster child' for better land management on national forest land.
Tract Name :Silvers Tract
Management objectives will focus on continuing and/or expanding elk monitoring and research in
Western NC. WRC ownership will ensure that critical elk habitat is conserved, and will also provide
areas for WRC staff to conduct elk research and monitoring projects. WRC ownership will also provide
opportunities to create early successional habitat, which is also a priority
wildlife habitat
If the gamelands in western NC supposedly cannot support a barely huntable deer population, how are those very same gamelands going to support the addition of elk into that very same habitat??
26. Elk introduced to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are multiplying and expanding their range. National Forest System lands adjacent to the park may provide some of the best opportunities for range expansion if appropriate habitat is available. There is a need to provide direction for managing elk habitat in anticipation of their expanding range.
Survey of Landowner Attitudes and Opinions Regarding Elk - Kerry Linehan
While very few licenses would be available, DNR anticipates applications of perhaps 40,000 annually, which would generate approximately $390,000 annually in net revenue (after deducting the issuing fee) with $280,000 of that funding available specifically for elk management and the remaining $110,000 Page 4 Natural Resources -- Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation (Paper #461)
deposited in the fish and wildlife account
You mean like the CURE program that nobody has seen benefits from?
So what? They ruined thousands of acres on GL that used to be productive for rabbit, squirrel and deer. The only thing it is good for now since they killed everything out except mature pines and planted switchgrass is they still can jump a few deer in the swamp heads where they couldn't kill out due to EPA standards. People used to spends days on tracts hunting game that now is barren of everything but protected woodpeckers.
The ruined thousands of acres of fox squirrel habitat at the Sandhills GL.