Good Grass. CRP plantings provide cover for wildlife and help sustain huntable populations. Hunters should focus on finding ways to improve habitat, which will help their odds in spring lotteries and in the field each fall. DEO Photo by Nick Simonson
By John Bradley
Each year sportsmen and sportswomen look forward with anticipation to hunting season.
Even in spring we wait with hope for the email from Game and Fish notifying that we were drawn for one of the “big three:” once in a lifetime tags for moose, elk, and bighorn sheep. Later we hope that our number gets called for the deer tag in our favorite unit. For most, that excitement drops when they read “your application was not drawn.” It’s easy to gripe at Game and Fish when our name in the hat doesn’t get drawn, but what are we as hunters doing to increase our draw odds?