You gotta have some kind of predator going up against all those cougars. [8D]

Besides being way out there in left field you are so far behind the times you’re probably out there toanother universe by now.

And I can sure see that some of you knot heads have been having a great time spreading misinformation while I was busy with the hunting seasons. Well I’m back, at least part time, though I am still trying to get caught up.

R.S. Bodenhorn

If rabbits or pheasants are in low populations in your area, or anywhere else, it is due to the loss of farmland habitat in combination with the changes in modern and cleaner farming practices. In this area both rabbit and pheasant populations have been improving over the past several years due to habitat improvement projects.

You are incorrect about the Game Commission not cooperating with the wild trap and transfer of pheasants too. The Game Commission can’t pay for it since they don’t have sufficient funds, due to the Legislature failing to adequately fund a state agency. So, the funding is coming from Pheasants Forever, but that still doesn’t mean the Game Commission isn’t cooperating and supportive of the program.

I see your poisonous lies and misinformation are still as blatant and far from the truth as ever. Some things just never change.

R.S. Bodenhorn

That is one of the funniest post you have ever made. Both 2F and 2G are 90% forested and you claim pheasant populations are improving due to habitat improvement projects. In 5C the PGC doesn't have to do anything and the pheasant habitat would still at least 10 times better than the habitat in 2F and 2G and there has been no improvement in either our pheasant or rabbit population.

BTW, have you figured out why adult doe breeding rates have dropped by at least 6%,when you claimed increased breeding rates would offset the loss of adult doe due to HR?

You obviously don’t know any more about the various habitats of this area then you know about deer management or the deer populations of the area. Of course posting about thing you know nothing about has never stopped you in the past so we certainly wouldn’t expect that to change in the future either.

The fact is that we have thousands upon thousands of acres of reclaimed strip jobs mixed in with thousands of acres of active farmland in the southern part of this county and unit 2G. All of which make excellent habitat for both rabbits and pheasant with just a little habitat work. The local Pheasants Forever Chapter has done about 300-600 acres of CREP work on the active farm lands within the unit each of the past four years. That is all on top of the crop land that isn’t put into CREP and maintained in row crops by the land owners.

Elk County also leads the entire North Central region in pheasant stocking because of all the excellent pheasant habitat combined with the fact that hunters come from all over the western half of state to hunt pheasants here. The hunters not only hunt them but find them too. I can probably check a pheasant hunter any day of the pheasant season and most likely they will have harvested or at least shot at a pheasant too.

R.S. Bodenhorn

I'm thinkin the fishers were brought in for SR.{SQUIRREL REDUCTIONS}

Wont the fishers eat all the wood rats?

No they won't touch them ,even fishers know wood rats are protected.

Not until they run out of moutain lion cubs.

Steve

You never cease to amaze me with your changing positions on the habitat in 2G. Last month the habitat was so poor that the habitat was controlling the herd and severely limited recruited. Now you have excellent habitat for both rabbits and pheasants. Just what do those rabbits and pheasants eat when there is two feet of snow? Why does the PGC have to stock pheasants if you have such excellent habitat. In the 60's and 70's we had great pheasant hunting in 5C and they weren't stocked pheasants and now that the pheasants are gone ,the pGC doesn't even stock birds on the coop farms in the valley. I guess the ship them to 2G for fisher, fox and coyote feed.