Brian Mastenbrook Quotes (6 Quotes)

To weigh them, you need at least three people at the weigh station, but without weighing them we can get by with just one person. We weighed them in the past, but that was really more of a service to the hunters. It's not part of the data we really need. It doesn't help us much as far as management decisions.

We know there are not big groups of wolves here. We would have detected that. But we do know we have some independent animals.

We warn hunters about that during the orientation. It was the last day of the hunt and he apparently shot one, but didn't think he hit it so he shot another one. As soon as he realized what had happened he turned himself in. He called the RAP line and told them he made a mistake.

That was less than the number of animals (40) we had hoped to take from the herd. It was pretty tough hunting. There was full foliage, and the warm weather made the animals not move around too much during the day.

We're worried about elk getting TB from the deer. We've found four elk with TB to date, but none in the last two years. We have some infected animals, but we don't think the whole herd is infected.

If we see animals, we circle around and count them, and also try to determine how many bulls, cows and calves there are.