I know you cannot group all hunters together any more than you can group all non-hunters together, but a pattern does reveal itself as season two in this ranch unfolds. The visitors of this ranch do not treat her as kindly as those that live here at least part of the time.
Last week there was an elk carcass (female) on upper Schierl that was left in the ditch. Barely twenty percent of the meat was harvested, which seems wasteful in unto itself. It was literally in the ditch where our road guy dredges up material to flatten our roads, and also ensured any remaining rot surely will sully the Spring run off. The disrespect of this animal who gave its life was blatant and heartbreaking.
I have seen several hunters drive their vehicles across private lands in the fields by Gray Place and Brophy. I have seen hunters out at night with spot lights (only once), but the depravity of that activity?
Yesterday I ventured out on a mail and package run and stopped not once, nor twice, but three times to pick up trash off Merlo. Gatorade bottles should never be found in this ranch as such. Plastic food wrappers are shameful to find shining on the side of the road.
Many hunters in this ranch are here for a week or two a year, and they are here now. I respectfully request you respect this beautiful place, and yourself, and stop tossing plastic about. If hunters are eating what they harvest, why would they want our animals ingesting their plastic? If hunters want their ranch to remain beautiful, please respect both the land and the animals. I was raised differently; if we killed it, we ate it. All of it, not a token and the rest is left to rot and waste.