Originally Posted by
alleyyooper
A Yooper friend sent me this. He lives below Marquette when I asked what is the fix.
Stop logging off all the winter yarding areas. Get the wolf population under control. Allow winter feeding. Quit giving out so many doe permits when the population is already down (like they did for several years prior to this one). Cut the buck kill to ONE per year (any size 3" or larger). This last change would do more to increase the size of bucks taken much more than having the choice of two restricted tags/or only one unrestricted tag, and more importantly it would eliminate people from being criminals from accidentally shooting a forkhorn they thought had more points!
If only one buck was allowed per person per year then people would naturally be much more selective about pulling the trigger on the first thing they see. There used to be some really nice bucks taken every year in the U.P. (more than now) back when only one was allowed per year.
I sent inquires to other Yooper friends and camp owners, yet to hear from them.
Al
They did this in Saskatchewan about 6-7 years ago, it used to be a whatever you like tag and a doe tag. Now they just have a whatever you want tag but shortened the season to 12 days instead of 40. They have no population problems up north in the bush but in the southern farmlands they did. Anyways morale of the story is they're not back in the same numbers everywhere but they have definitely bounced back nicely over the general southern populace. It works.