06-18-2008, 01:01 AM
[quote line dangler]The quotations you put in your post from me were intended for a different context. I wrote them to answer why Bigfoot carcasses should not be expected.[/quote]I fully understand the context you were trying to use, that is why I responded. IMHO you are using flawed examples of why no bigfoot carcass has been found.
Just take the bear for example, you said that almost every single Yellowstone bear is collared, when in actuallity the USFWS feal that they have less than 10% of the Yellowstone Grizzly population collared. But they are still able to come up with relativly accurate population estimates, and even find and study many cases of natural and unnatural caused mortality on bears without collars,and the grizzly bear population in Wyoming including Yellowstone is only 550. A majority of these bears also reside in 18 million acres of wilderness where roads do not exist and airial surveys are not allowed.
Then you ask why many hunters like yourself do not find carcasses of animals while hunting. The main reason for this especially in the western US would be because almost every "Natural" caused ungluate death happens during the winter while the animals are on their wintering grounds and are at their weakest. These wintering grounds are very rarely the same areas that many of us in Utah and Wyoming hunt.
You also used the example of you hiking around Hoops Lake here in the Uintas and not finding but one jaw bone. I grew up and currently live 15 miles from Hoops lake and am not suprised you have never found hardly anything, soley based on the Hoops lake area is not Winter for any ungulates.
But if you were to get closer to the Wyoming border around Burntfork or Lonetree I guarantee you that you would come across at least one carcass in only an afternoon of hiking. This area is one of my favorite shed hunting areas and I have found many dead critters throughout the years.
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Just take the bear for example, you said that almost every single Yellowstone bear is collared, when in actuallity the USFWS feal that they have less than 10% of the Yellowstone Grizzly population collared. But they are still able to come up with relativly accurate population estimates, and even find and study many cases of natural and unnatural caused mortality on bears without collars,and the grizzly bear population in Wyoming including Yellowstone is only 550. A majority of these bears also reside in 18 million acres of wilderness where roads do not exist and airial surveys are not allowed.
Then you ask why many hunters like yourself do not find carcasses of animals while hunting. The main reason for this especially in the western US would be because almost every "Natural" caused ungluate death happens during the winter while the animals are on their wintering grounds and are at their weakest. These wintering grounds are very rarely the same areas that many of us in Utah and Wyoming hunt.
You also used the example of you hiking around Hoops Lake here in the Uintas and not finding but one jaw bone. I grew up and currently live 15 miles from Hoops lake and am not suprised you have never found hardly anything, soley based on the Hoops lake area is not Winter for any ungulates.
But if you were to get closer to the Wyoming border around Burntfork or Lonetree I guarantee you that you would come across at least one carcass in only an afternoon of hiking. This area is one of my favorite shed hunting areas and I have found many dead critters throughout the years.
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