Hungry Horse news., 1955-04-15
Sportsmen Ask for Hunting Change.

Local sportsmen are asking
three changes to the II hunting
season recommendations made at
a KaLspell meeting Monday eve
ming.
The Northern Rocky Mountain
Sportsmen's club meeting at Dav-
all Nero. Tuesday evening with IS
members and "a dozen guests pres
ent voted to ask that the Montana
Fish and Game commission to close
a section of elk hunting from Bad
Rock canyon south to the Lake
Blaine road and from U. S. No. 2
to the foot of Columbia mountain.
The club is also asking that no
moose kill be permitted up the
Flathead's North Fork, and that
description of Schafer drainage
where another five moose kill has
been recommended be changed to
the wider area of the Flathead's
Middle Fork above Granite creek.
Otherwise upper Flathead
sportsmen agreed with recommen-
dations as made by other Flathead
sportsmen's groups including the
Flathead Wildlife Association,
Flathead Sportsmen's Association,
Whitefish Rod and Gun, Montana
Archery Association, Flathead
Conservationists. Recommended
tons are printed in detail at the
bottom of this story.
Ross Wilson, Kalispell, state dis
trict game supervisor, was to have
talked at the Columbia Falls meet
ing, but had been called to Helena.
Art Weaver, Lake Blaine farm
er-rancher, said that last fall there
were 200 elk in the Lake Blaine
area. With hunting season last fall
there was a butchering and few
signs of craftsmanship. Now just
IL elk were reported left.
Al Arvidson, Glacier View dis
trict alternate ranger, told the
club of the Forest Service Fish
and Game wildlne census that he
helped complete with Ed Sager,
game warden. Result is the North
Fork shows a low wildlife census
Of 80 moose, so elk, $50 mule deer
and about 200 to 800 white tail
deer If areas bordering the forest
service land is counted.
Range conditions for the ami
mails was termed poor. Counting
conditions this winter We're moi
good in view of less snow, but the
census is believed reasonablely ac-
curate.
Another topic at the meeting
was discussion of Forest Service
responsibilities and detectives by
Roger Thaanum, Kalispell assist
ant supervisor of Flathead Nation
al Forest in charge of fire control
recreation and land management.
He told of the origin OF the Box
Marshall Wilderness in 1881, en-
largement, and creation to presen
boundaries in 1910. Thaanum add
ed that the Forest Service hat
never considered reducing the sizs
of the 100000 acre primitive area
Thaanum also talked about mul.
tiple use purposes OF the nationa
forests as whole concerning tim.
Der, water, game and forage. Oh.
jective was the greatest good Il
the greatest number and maintain.
ing the resource through the years
Recommendations for the 1885
hunting season as adopted b.
Flathead clubs, and submitted TO
consideration Of the Montana Fisl
and Game Commission, which i
setting up the season next week
are as follows: (They are mucl
the same as last year,.
/. That Flathead county shall
be open to the hunting of bucl
deer from Oct. Is to Nov. Is, 1855
both dates inclusive. and open t
hunters choice - either sex :
from Nov. / to Nov. Is 1855
both dates inclusive, excer
that area within the boundarie
OF the Flathead Indian reservation
Lone Pine Game reserve, Still
water Game preserve, and TIL
Hart Basin closure;
2. And, in addition, that porto