Howdy All: Summer here in CO. is a far cry from the brown, brittle inferno of last summer. The deer and elk are everywhere, and feasting on lush vegetation from a cool wet spring. How is it with the rest of you and your critters in the Rockies?

What a switch! Went scouting up in my elk hunting grounds near Craig, (NW Colorado)-- poking around in some areas where I haven' t been before -- lush vegetation, water damage to roads, fresh mud slides at the foot of mountains, elk track everywhere lots of calf tracks laying inside the mothers tracks. It looks like a good crop of elk this year.

But just wait until those damn wolves get here from Wyoming -- what the hell were they thinking?

EKM

Shhhhh. Don' t tell everybody.


All the vegetation is brown and dead. No elk here in Colorado. They must have moved to Utah and Wyoming.

Everything sure is lush up there. BB, I hunt the same unit you do and the only thing that worries me is that the snowpack is still nonexistant and it will be harder to find animals, especially during the later seasons. They must have all gone to Wyoming!

I have been seeing tons of elk in Wyoming, when I have been there camping. I saw a few elk in Montana also, but they where almost standing on the Montana Wyoming state line. I am sure if I could speak elk well enough to tell them they were in Montana, they whould have ran back into Wyoming.
ELKampMaster I do not let a few wolves bother me. It' s the enviro-freaks that want the wolf in Colorado that you have to worry about. Just do what the fine people in Arizona did. Kill every wolf they transplant into your state & they won' t be a problem.[]
I did talk to Ed Bangs (he is in charge of the wolf transplats in Montana) one time. He told me the " big picture" was to have a health wolf population in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington & Oregon.

Just remember the 3-S' s
Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

I just returned from three days of scouting bliss. Water holes are full and still ALOT of snow to be melted.Elk are abound!!!!! I must be in Wyoming?????????

Norhtern Utah is doing ok but not great. Southern Utah is hurting badly, we still are in a " drought" situation. It' s better than last year though.