List of closed areas to goats?
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Yes Taffy, I understand the govt. process and our need to voice our opinion and stay together with the sheep people (they have more money and political pull).

Thanks Saph. I am continuing to pursue my goals of hunting the backcountry with goats. I will probably have to learn to slow my hiking pace as very few goats would probably keep up for any distance. But the feasability of hunting elk in some of the places I like to go is just not possible without stock. Archery hunting in the rut means warm temps and the ability to get an elk out before it spoils is the limiting factor. Otherwise I'm known to pull the trigger first and then worry later. Last year I packed a deer 19 miles at 7-10k feet elevation. It was roughly a 90lbs pack load of boned out meat. I'm not opposed to working hard hunting but getting 250-275lbs of elk out from 10+ miles in just isn't possible, especially at 70 degrees. The burns and subsequent blowdowns in some of the nat. forests that you mentioned make horses not a possibility (not that my budget didn't already have that covered). So I have narrowed it down to goats as my solution. I'm curious where you live in ID, I went to school in Moscow.

Fingers crossed some of the OR/WA forests don't implement a plan before I get to do some packing there!

Thanks, Ken
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List of closed areas to goats? - by Kelpy - 02-09-2015, 10:43 AM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Saph - 02-10-2015, 02:23 PM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Taffy - 02-10-2015, 04:17 PM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Saph - 02-10-2015, 07:28 PM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by vigilguy - 02-10-2015, 07:36 PM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Kelpy - 02-11-2015, 09:54 AM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Taffy - 02-11-2015, 10:06 AM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Saph - 02-11-2015, 06:08 PM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Kelpy - 02-12-2015, 09:23 AM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Saph - 02-12-2015, 10:16 AM
RE: List of closed areas to goats? - by Saph - 06-11-2015, 09:48 PM

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