Blacklab,
Thanks for answering my inquary. What about gated roads? Are there remote areas for us brazen, callow juvenile hunters who don't mind hiking a few miles in? From studying the maps it seems that even if there is one or two closed roads, there are plenty other roads that probably pressure the elk.
Where are you putting in for tags? I've come to the understanding that if I want to put in for Eastern special hunts, I have to choose that tag for the general side. I had the idea that if I don't get drawn for theEastern hunts I want, I'd rather have a general tag on the west side.