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Originally Posted by Larryjk
rainydays, I suppose you will hate to hear me say this. I have been sending letters to our Game & Fish Commission and talking to the game wardens about the idea of putting a season on prairie dogs in Wyoming. 1) Shooting them too early in the spring is really putting a crimp on their reproduction. I am recommending June 1 in Wyoming. 2) License them as a small game animal. All non-residents would have to buy a license and conservation stamp as would all residents. Most residents already do that for other needs. It would bring in about $45.00 for each non-resident shooter.(Try shooting p-dogs in anyother state without haveing their non-resident license.) 3) With a later starting date, there would be many more p-dogs to shoot. Resident landowners could shoot them anytime on their own property to prevent damage. 4) It would show the Game & Fish is managing p-dogs, which would make it more difficult for some enviro groups to push for endangered species status.
I am not a no hunting type. I hunt everything it is legal to hunt. I am a conservationist and I think this would be a good move for the long term hunting of p-dogs.
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Larryjk, I hear what you are saying and I do agree with you. Here though, it is somewhat of a different situation. The Feds are poisoning the the dog towns that infringe on private ground because there are to many dogs in them and the ranchers are complaining about the feds not controlling there dogs. Guess that is why I shoot them all year round. Even at that, some of the towns I used to hunt are now gone. Hard to figure out if the Feds what to put the dogs on the endangered species list or poison them off.
