It falls directly on the shoulders of our odfw . At the end of the day it's their responsibility to manage the numbers

Not anyone else . They are paid to do a job . Forty years of mule deer decline equals 40 yrs of failure.

I would expect to be fired with that track record

We all know the issues .......

1. Human population has almost doubled in oregon in those 40 yrs

2. Vechile incidents have increased as a result I'm sure . Some steps have been taken to help , but not enough

3. Predator control under all the bs rules is not nearly adequate enough to keep a declining mule deer heard from declining further. The more winter range road closures increase the more dead deer I find .......no or very little predator control in those areas . As far as Dogs being a limited tool , Political push back should include odfw NOT taking care of " problem " cougars...... Allowing night hunting and night vision scopes is a very effective tool

4. Poaching........I'm guessing it's increased in the last 40 . Needs more attention

Lots of other factors , over harvest , tag reductions are usually too few and too late

Loss of habitat ? I'm skeptical..........over grazing , monetizing public game for private gains ,bla bla bla





I'll rejoin the big banquet clubs when they start bringing lawsuits and holding odfw accountable, instead of volunteering their members to perform slave labor for odfw projects ....lol

I can verify that Cold, Wolfie and I decided to get together down in the bayou to have a few Lone stars this past weekend and things got a little out of control when I inadvertently opened a pint of Backbreaker so that Wolfie could get a sniff of the good stuff.

Great weekend!

A lifelike depiction of how big winecap mushrooms are compared to Wolfie.



Keith

you measure your material in grams 1-2 cents a gram is common a print that size is probably 400-500 grams


you can paint PLA and it holds up better to UV

probably a 30% infill for a little extra strenth

probably print it as 2 haves a front and a back then join them with a few zip ties , that way if you break the front of the box you are only re-printing a front

Soon as that bison rolled over and dusted himself off, he knew what he was going to do.

A ploy to get free backbreaker.

Maybe someday you can tell them, Not my monkey's, not my circus. If you tell them that, make sure you are financially secure. Lol

There are a couple of locations in the back sloughs and marshes where the "bottom" is hard to define. It might look all of 10" deep, but you can stick a paddle down into it and still not hit something solid. Yet there are distinct 'rat runs through this judging by the clean trails on top of this soft bottom. If you were to set a colony trap in this "run", it would sink and disappear into the goo below.

So I've been tinkering with a floating colony trap design. A typical 24" collapsible colony trap is attached to the underside of a board backed with styrofoam. The ends of the board have holes for sticks to go into and protrude upwards (not into the water) to cause the 'rat or mink to submerge and swim below it, still in the run, and into the colony trap. The colony trap is suspended just above the top of the sediment below, yet fully submerged. So far so good. Everything falls within the regs, so far.

Any other tinkerers out there with this application in mind?

Sometimes does.

My Dad is at a place where there is no concept of time. He kept saying he wanted to go home, even though he has not left the house all day. Not knowing what to do I decided I would put him in the car and see what happens. I told him he would have to tell me where we were going. He gave me directions which took us around the block. He told me which house to pull into (His house). I got him out, took him in the house and he was good to go.

As meaningless as it sounds, I’m happy he knew the way home.

There used to be an ice cream place called Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour. They had an ice cream dish that was called the Pig’s Trough. It came in a long wooden bowl and was covered with whip cream, nuts, cherries and chocolate syrup. If you finished its twelve scoops of ice cream, you received an award that said, “I made a pig of myself at Farrell’s.”

My dad ate the second biggest dish of ice cream their. It came in what looked like a fish bowl, with a glass base, that looked like the bottom of a wine glass. It was called a something "Boy". After he ate it, you could see my dad's breath.

Keith

I am a long time coyote trapper . My area doesn't have swift here Looking to target some swift fox in far western ks. Any body here give me some advice other than scaling down coyote sets. Appropriate equipment etc. Just want to because I never have. Thanks in advance

Thanks Les. I’ll keep this in mind for next time.