Kent S. Great points!! I full agree that there are already laws in place to deal with harassment. It still is totally legal to hike, bike, run, mountain lion hunt, coyote hunt, hunt other animals (60+ hunts overlap the reg), snowmobile, picknick, 4 wheel etc. the list goes on! All of those activities can happen in the same areas where deer and elk are wintering. Only one group, the shed hunters are being targeted in this closure and its not appropriate.
Also, no one has produced real evidence that shed hunting is affecting herd mortality. Deer have been in slow decline for many many years, even before the boom in shed hunting. Elk and other game animals (antelope etc.) are at their highest surviving levels ever! NDOW has multiplied their tag quotas for some elk hunts x3 in the last 10 years. We have incredible Elk herds who are clearly doing great!
Tyler Turnipseed (Chief Game Warden) said in 2017 on an NDOW official release that ""Shed hunting is a lot of fun, and if people do it carefully and on foot, it can have little to no impact on wildlife and habitat,"" said Turnipseed. "" (http://www.ndow.org/Shed-Hunters-Urged-Respect-Wildlife-Habitat/) I would agree with him on this. In all the years I have been shed hunting I have never seen anyone harassing animals. If there are cases of it, NDOW can already deal with it through current NRS-Laws. It would be like saying that due to a few bad apples who harrass animals or poach during hunting season, no one should be able to hunt ethically...NDOW has no issue dealing with those few unethical hunters while allowing the rest of us who hunt ethically, to continue. Why can we not do the same for shed hunting?
I would encourage anyone who does not want this reg to continue to get in touch with our representatives and get this thing repealed. If you need contact info and a form letter, email: shedhuntnevada@gmail.com
8 years ago
Breaking: Nevada’s new shed antler hunting restrictionsKent S. Great points!! I full agree that there are already laws in place to deal with harassment. It still is totally legal to hike, bike, run, mountain lion hunt, coyote hunt, hunt other animals (60+ hunts overlap the reg), snowmobile, picknick, 4 wheel etc. the list goes on! All of those activities can happen in the same areas where deer and elk are wintering. Only one group, the shed hunters are being targeted in this closure and its not appropriate.
Also, no one has produced real evidence that shed hunting is affecting herd mortality. Deer have been in slow decline for many many years, even before the boom in shed hunting. Elk and other game animals (antelope etc.) are at their highest surviving levels ever! NDOW has multiplied their tag quotas for some elk hunts x3 in the last 10 years. We have incredible Elk herds who are clearly doing great!
Tyler Turnipseed (Chief Game Warden) said in 2017 on an NDOW official release that ""Shed hunting is a lot of fun, and if people do it carefully and on foot, it can have little to no impact on wildlife and habitat,"" said Turnipseed. "" (http://www.ndow.org/Shed-Hunters-Urged-Respect-Wildlife-Habitat/) I would agree with him on this. In all the years I have been shed hunting I have never seen anyone harassing animals. If there are cases of it, NDOW can already deal with it through current NRS-Laws. It would be like saying that due to a few bad apples who harrass animals or poach during hunting season, no one should be able to hunt ethically...NDOW has no issue dealing with those few unethical hunters while allowing the rest of us who hunt ethically, to continue. Why can we not do the same for shed hunting?
I would encourage anyone who does not want this reg to continue to get in touch with our representatives and get this thing repealed. If you need contact info and a form letter, email: shedhuntnevada@gmail.com