Wildlife Abundance; It's The Habitat

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Elk Talk Podcast

Wilderness, Science, How To, Sports, Nature, Education

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In the episode (#106) of Elk Talk Podcast, Corey and Randy answer reader questions about impacts this tough winter will have on elk numbers. Topics covered include the brutal winter of 2022-23, tag adjustments, benefits to arid elk states, the habitat consequences of human development, "Mother Nature" no longer exists, Colorado draw deadline, Corey's wolf hunting, get out and manage your wolves, the value volunteers, habitat is the bottom line, abundance thinking for wildlife and habitat, increasing access, advocacy for future hunters, and other topics generated by listener emails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Elk Talk Podcast is brought to you by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation,
0:04.4	ensuring the future of Elk, other wildlife, their habitat, and our hunting
0:09.4	heritage to become a member. Go to RMEF.ORG.
0:17.2	Welcome to the Elk Talk Podcast with Randy Newberg and Corey Jacobson,
0:23.0	presented by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
0:30.0	The goal is, what little you and I know about elk hunting, we share with people.
0:38.0	I've got an elk doing this like 120 yards away. What do I do?
0:41.2	First off, the thought would never cross my mind when an elk's being 120 yards away to call
0:45.6	anybody on a cell phone. All elk all the time, only elk. Well, it's us having conversations,
0:53.7	so we usually go down some rabbit holes, but if you hunt with Corey Jacobson,
0:57.4	you will find the landscape as full of rabbit holes. We're just going to make this up as we go,
1:02.4	and you look at it like, oh, that's a target rich environment, but if you're trying to single
1:06.3	one out, a solo target, there's much easier to go into than a big group. We record everything,
1:12.0	so there's no BS and no lion, no faking it with us. I forgot to hit the record button.
1:20.0	If you want to know something about elk hunting, this probably isn't podcast to listen to.
1:26.0	Could we give them a less of all the other podcasts where they might learn from?
1:37.5	How you doing, Corey? I am tired of winter, just to be brutally honest with you.
1:44.9	I'm ready to see green grass. Yeah, did you guys get 22 inches over the weekend, like I did?
1:51.1	I quit majoring. We've got more snow in March than any other year, like ski hills are just going
1:57.1	crazy with how much snow, and it's usually spring skiing this time of year can be really good,
2:02.4	because snow gets soft, does it melt? They're still getting powder. They're getting powder,
2:08.3	and it's increasing. Their base levels are increasing still at the end of March 1st of April.
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