Idaho Fish and Game Commission recently approved a new six-year elk management plan after staff solicited public review and adapted the draft plan to reflect public input.
The updated elk plan is not a complete overhaul of the former management plan. The department and commission retained the framework of Idaho’s elk hunting, which is 28 elk hunting zones with the A/B tag system, and a mix of general and controlled hunts.
The plan is a blueprint for sustaining healthy elk herds, rebuilding herds that are below objectives and establishing goals that Fish and Game will work to achieve without determining specifics for hunting in each unit or zone, which is done during biannual season setting.
“This plan will take us into the future to maintain and hopefully improve Idaho’s elk hunting,” said Toby Boudreau, Fish and Game’s Deer/Elk coordinator. “Idaho elk hunting has been on a roll in the last decade or so. Annual harvests have been well above long-term averages, but we know there’s always room for improvement, and we wanted hunters to weigh in on their preferences before going forward.”
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