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Few places on the planet are muchmore than a day’s travel away fromEarth’s biggest cit ies, but the remote parts of North Central Idaho arefar off the beaten paths that criss-crossthe contiguous United States.

That makes this area a boon to anyonewho wants to get away from the cities fora spell.

An Englishmancould jump on a flightout of Heathrow butwould find it difficultto put himself muchmore than 24 hoursaway from a majorcity.

Even a rock starwith airfare tospare — say, RollingStones frontman MickJagger — would needabout as much time toget from London toLewiston by jet planeas it’d take him totour Hells CanyonDam by jet boat.

And that’s thepoint: covering greatdistance at highspeed separates a personfrom the modern worldfar less than a walk in thewoods.

•Though deeper woods

than those of the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests

can hardlybe found in theLower 48, easy ac-cess is a large part ofthe Clearwater Re-gion’s appeal.

Two local gameunits — 8A and10A — reliably fea-ture among the

state’s most hunting ground. The third-largest whitetail deer harvest in Idahohistory went off last year, and both of

these units — which neighbor DworshakReservoir — ranked in the state’s top five.

Unit 16 — which includes the lowerpart of the Selway River drainage — post-ed the state’s highest deer hunting successrate (55 percent) with more than 600tagged by fewer than 1,200 hunters.

By the same measure, four other unitsin the region were among the state’s topperformers in 2014.

Unit 8 and Unit 11A are main-ly agricultural with

large

proportions of private land. In Unit 15,which surrounds Elk City, deer hunters re-ported success at a rate of nearly 45 per-cent.

Also ranking in the Top 10 by deerhunting success rate was Unit 11. Southof Lewiston, it is home to one of the GemState’s crown jewels: the Craig MountainWildlife Management Area. Craig Moun-tain totals 140,000 acres open to publicrecreation; the Idaho Department of

Lands manages

78,000 accessed by the roads to SoldiersMeadow Reservoir and Lake Waha.

August saw a record fire season strikethe region, and area closures in Units 10,12, 14, 15 and 20 may disrupt hunting.

•We left Mick Jagger on a boat farther

to the south, in Snake River countryabove the Salmon River confluence.

Unit 13 is a mostly-private riddle ofcanyons southwest of Cottonwood anddue west of White Bird.

The Forest Service manages land onboth sides of the Unit 18 boundary atPittsburg Landing; farther south, the

ground is mostly public and in-cludes nearly 58,000 acres of

wilderness. The archeryhunter who draws a Unit

18 elk tag has a chanceto tag onev e r yl a r g ebull.

I t ’ s adifferentstory inthe LoloZone (Units10 and 12)and the Sel-way Zone

(Units 16A, 17,19 and 20). Lastyear, huntersb o u g h tfewer than900 generalseason deertags andfewer than

700 general sea-son elk tags forthe two LoloZone units, andthe Idaho Depart-ment of Fish and

Game announcedplans to boost elknumbers there

through wolf control andhabitat work.

Great land, wide openPHOTO COURTESY ROBERT MILLAGE, KAMIAH ID

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These two units also both see someof the highest hunter counts in thestate, as the Idaho Department of Fishand Game last year sold almost13,000 deer tags and 6,100 elk tags inthem. As was seen statewide, 2014’smild winter bodes well for whitetaildeer in 8A and 10A this season.

The onset of drought this fall andthe potential for a harsh winter meanthe fall of 2016 may not be as good,but IDFG’s official deer prospectusnoted the possibility that statewidedeer harvest could break the all-timerecord set in 1996.

That’s in no small part due to mulefawn survival of more than 80 per-cent — the highest portion to survivethe winter IDFG has seen during the15 years it has tracked the rate withintensive surveying.

That optimism is balanced by thedevastation that struck the southeast-ern part of 10A late in the summer.Most of the fires that hit especiallyhard in mid-August — those near

Orofino, Kamiah, Kooskia, Weippeand Pierce — are under control andnot under any closure orders.

Grass is quick to grow back, but be-fore mid-September’s rains camethrough, moderate drought had set inacross all of Latah, Nez Perce, Lewisand Clearwater counties, as well asnorthern Idaho County.

The mid-September rain quelledfires on the eastern edge of Unit10A — near its triple point with Unit10 and Unit 12 at the junction ofSmith Creek Road and the Lolo Mo-torway southeast of Pierce — but alsohampered the effort to keep roads andtrails clear of hazard trees.Fire information

At last check, the Motorway Com-

plex incident command team was stilladvising the public to use “extremecaution when travelling in or throughareas affected by wildfire” — the kindof advice that applies equally in all re-cently-burned areas.

Many roads and trails east ofPierce and northeast of Syringa havebeen closed since fires broke out. Inthe Syringa vicinity, Smith Creek Road(101) and the western part of the LoloMotorway (500) remained closed asof Sept. 17. From the Pierce side, LoloWeitas (103) and Snowy Summit(104) remained closed, as are theHemlock (535), Hemlock Ridge (547)and Lean-To Ridge (555) roads.

A current, detailed map is availableonline at the Nez Perce-Clearwater

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Fire information is also being post-ed on bulletin boards in the Kooskiaand Kamiah communities, at the fol-lowing locations:

Kamiah: City Hall, Cloninger's Har-vest Foods, Emergency Service/FireStation, Idaho Dept. of Lands, IndianHealth Services, Kiwanis BulletinBoard, Nez Perce Community Center,the U.S. Forest Service Supervisor'sOffice and the Welcome Center andChamber of Commerce.

Kooskia: Kooskia Rest Area at theintersection of U.S. Highway 12 andState Highway 13, Tom Cat SportingGoods, and the U.S. Forest ServiceKooskia Ranger Station.

By the numbers: 8A2014 General/All Weapons

Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.17Deer hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,857Deer harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,250Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,633Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 8.0



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Unit 8, Unit 11, Unit 11A

Farmland fosters numerous whitetailThe Idaho Department of Fish and

Game’s deer outlook report openswith a remarkable line: deer hunters“could see the best hunting in morethan 20 years and potentially a recordharvest for white-tailed deer.”

Deer tag sales are on an uptick dat-ing back to 2011, and since 2012, thenumber of hunters interested in threeunits — 8, 11, and 11A — has grownby 18 percent.

That translates to about 900 moredeer being legally harvested in 2014than were tagged in 2012 — but thesurge has been more than matched bythe burgeoning whitetail population.

In the prospectus, which can beread in ful l online atHTTP://BIT.LY/1QKX8WI, IDFG biolo-gists noted that when does arehealthy, they “typically produce twinfawns that quickly grow herds whenconditions are favorable.”

While the onset of drought maydrive deer to higher elevations inother zones, the prevalence of white-tail deer in these well-traveled agri-cultural zones contributes to onelong-standing statistic many Idahoanshave run into before: drivers are mostlikely to hit a deer in November, Sep-tember and October, in that order, ac-cording a Sept. 16 report by theSpokesman Review.

Apart from McCroskey State Parknorth of Potlatch, Units 8 and 11Afeature little state or federal land, butthose in the know — or who knowhow to ask — find great opportunitieson private land year after year.

Unit 11 features the Craig Moun-tain Wildlife Management Area,where interior roads are reserved fornon-motorized uses, such as horse-back riding and mountain biking.

Fire InformationOf the three, only Unit 11A was

struck hard by fire this fall. The Fisher Fire in Big Canyon east

of Reubens was contained at 18,889acres late last month after beingstruck by lightning on Aug. 12.

At the same time, fires burnedwest of Kamiah in Lawyer Canyon,and were brought to a halt late lastmonth. Areas with little forage andlittle cover were seen near Kamiah inearly September, but significant rainhas fallen since then.

A current, detailed map is avail-able online at the Nez Perce-Clearwa-ter National Forests’ fire informationpage: HTTP://WWW.FS.USDA.GOV/DE-TAIL/NEZPERCECLEARWATER/HOME/?CID=FSM91_055753. Information is alsobeing posted on bulletin boards in theKooskia and Kamiah communities, atthe following locations:

Kamiah: City Hall, Cloninger's Har-vest Foods, Emergency Service/FireStation, Idaho Dept. of Lands, IndianHealth Services, Kiwanis BulletinBoard, Nez Perce Community Center,the U.S. Forest Service Supervisor'sOffice and the Welcome Center andChamber of Commerce.

Kooskia: Kooskia Rest Area at theintersection of U.S. Highway 12 andState Highway 13, Tom Cat SportingGoods, and the U.S. Forest ServiceKooskia Ranger Station.

By the numbers: 82014 General/All Weapons

Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.88Deer hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,733Deer harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,760Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,013Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 4.9


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484,000Percent public* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.13Deer hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,315Deer harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,058Elk hunters** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722Elk harvest** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 3.1* 5.2 percent Indian Reservation.** No general. Controlled hunts only.


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530,000Percent public* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.16Deer hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,047Deer harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,494Elk hunters** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462Elk harvest** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 4.4* 9.7 percent Indian Reservation.** Includes controlled hunters (131)and harvest (27).

IDAHO FISH AND GAME

Hunters had the third-highest harvest of white-tailed deer in 2014, and with bet-ter hunting in the forecast, the all-time record could be broken this year.

HOW TO:

Ask to hunt onprivate property

Sportsmen must take some responsibility for policing their ranks to elimi-nate incidents that damage the landowner-sportsman relationship.

Approach a landowner weeks ahead of time to ask permission to hunt there.Even if the land is posted, it doesn’t hurt to ask — but banging on a door forpermission at 4 a.m. will not increase your chances of being welcomed.

If the landowner agrees, detail the dates and times you’ll be there and makesure you understand where you will be allowed to hunt.

Leave the land as you found it. In other words: pack it in, pack it out. It alsodoesn’t hurt to pick up litter others may have left.

Know the lay of the land. Steer clear of houses, barns and livestock.Be careful of crops and take it easy on fences. If you see one down, notify

the landowner.Never haggle with a landowner who seems firm on prohibiting hunting on

his land. Sportsmen can increase their chances by offering a courtesy card.Idaho Landowner/Sportsmen cards, available free at license vendors or Fishand Game offices, provide landowners with identification and other importantinformation.

Persons convicted of trespass on posted private property will receive amandatory one-year revocation of hunting and fishing licenses.


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Unit 10, Unit 12

Lolo Zone elk hunts continue to dwindleUnits 10 and 12 are roughly equal

in size, and are separated by the LoloMotorway — a remote, rough, nar-row road constructed by the CivilianConservation Corps during the 1930salong a route that roughly parallelsthe track Lewis and Clark took fromthe continental divide to the WeippePrairie in 1805.Unit 12 encompasses the Lochsa

River drainage above its confluencewith the Selway River at Lowell,while Unit 10 encircles the headwa-ters of the North Fork ClearwaterRiver, including the north shore ofDworshak Reservoir below SmithButte at the border of Shoshone andClearwater counties.Backcountry elk hunters and out-

fitters have long complained that theestablishment of permanent wolfpacks has ruined one of Idaho’s pre-mier attractions, but the two LoloZone units have also not shown signsof the sustained surge in deer huntinginterest that are visible in much of therest of the state.Idaho wolves were delisted from

Endangered Species Act protection in2011, and deer hunting interest inUnit 10 and Unit 12 both saw a popin 2012 — and little growth since. The number of elk tags being

bought in the area is within five per-cent of the 2011 count, and 80 to 100wapiti have been legally harvestedeach year during the same time-frame.In June 2014, the Idaho Depart-

ment of Fish and Game published anelk management plan that noted elkhunter participation had dwindledfrom an annual average of 1,400 ormore during the mid-2000s.The 2014 elk management plan

prescribes “liberal predator harvestthrough hunting and trapping sea-sons, and control actions in additionto improvements in elk habitat at alandscape level” in the Lolo Zone.Rejuvenating effects of August’s

fires remain to be seen, but the 2014plan described potential upsides ofdisruption, including logging: “In general, managing habitats in

a mosaic of plant successional stageswill prove most beneficial to elk.Overall plant diversity and forage ishigher in recently disturbed areas. ...Disturbance is crucial to maintaininghigh quality elk habitat. Traditionally,different fire cycles and human dis-

Have questions?

Call the officeContact the Idaho Department

of Fish and Game Clearwater Re-gion Office in Lewiston at 799-5010.Contact the Nez Perce-Clear-

water National Forests Supervi-sor's Office in Kamiah at 935-2513. Contact the Grangeville Office at

983-1950.Contact the Salmon River

Ranger District at the Slate CreekRanger Station at 839-2211. Contact the Red River Ranger

District at the Elk City Ranger Sta-tion at 842-2245.Contact the Lochsa/Powell

Ranger District in Kooskia at 926-4274. Contact the Moose Creek

Ranger District at Fenn RangerStation at 926-4258. Contact the Lolo Pass Visitor

Center at 942-3113.Contact the North Fork Ranger

District in Orofino at 476-4541.Contact the Palouse Ranger

District in Potlatch at 875-1131.Contact the Hells Canyon Na-

tional Recreation Area office inRiggins at 628-3916.Contact the Bureau of Land

Management’s Cottonwood FieldOffice at 962-3245.Contact the Idaho Department

of Lands’ Maggie Creek Office inKamiah at 935-2141.

turbance, such as logging, resulted inhigher elk densities than occur inmany areas today. In the short-term,weather patterns can affect elk popu-lations, but landscape-scale habitatchanges will impact long-termtrends.”In practical terms, IDFG has set a

goal to maintain 20-30 percent of theelk summer range in the Lolo Zone as“early successional habitat,” and to in-crease the amount of early succes-sional habitat on breaklands, in orderto provide more forage.The plan calls for a “combination

of variable retention regenerationharvests, commercial, and precom-mercial thinning” and for such timbercuts to be strategically placed to allowfor “landscape-level prescribed andnatural fire.”It’s unclear how much August’s

fires may have advanced or hindered

those goals in the Lolo Zone.Beyond that, there’s the need for

predator control. In April, IDFG’s annual wolf report

identified 15 “documented packs” inthe Lolo Zone. A total of 41 wolveswere killed in the Lolo Zone, of which23 were taken through governmentcontrol action and 18 were tagged bywolf hunters last year.

Fire informationDetails on road closures related to

the Motorway Complex fires east ofPierce, east of Weippe and north ofSyringa also pertain to the southwest-ern part of Unit 10 and the westerntip of Unit 12. (See Page 2.) At last check, fire managers were

still advising the public to use “ex-treme caution when travelling in orthrough areas affected by wildfire” —the kind of advice that applies equally

in all recently-burned areas.Two fire closure areas were still in

effect in the eastern parts of Unit 12as of Sept. 17: in the area around JayPoint, near Powell, and in the areawest of the Lolo Pass Visitor Center atthe Montana state line.The White Sand and Powell camp-

grounds are closed.Also in Unit 12, several trails in the

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness werestill closed by the Army Mule and RollCreek fires, both of which are part ofthe Lochsa South Complex.In Unit 10, trail closures were still

in effect near Scurvy Mountain andnear Five Lakes Butte on the NorthFork Ranger District.Approximately two dozen named

fires were still burning between theLochsa and Selway rivers, but manyof these are in neighboring Units 16and 17.

A current, detailed map is availableonline at the Nez Perce-ClearwaterNational Forests’ fire informationpage: HTTP://1.USA.GOV/1LV3RWA.


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.6Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 0.6


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.6Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 0.2


AREAS CLOSEDDUE TO FIRE

PORTIONS OF NEZ PERCE-CLEARWATER NATIONAL FORESTS FIRE CLOSURE MAP, SEPT. 17Parts of units 10, 10A, 12, 14, 15 and 17 were still closed at last check.

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10

12

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10A

15

14

17

Conditions have changed signifi-cantly since the Tepee Springs Fireraged into the Riggins area in August;effective at 6 a.m. (MT) Sept. 18, theIdaho County Sheriff’s Office liftedthe closure for the Salmon RiverRoad.

In addition, all emergency area clo-sures on BLM lands and Payette Na-tional Forest Lands due to the Tepee

Springs Fire were lifted Sept. 19. Thisincludes access to the Hard/HazardCreek Road from U.S. Highway 95; allBLM parcels north of the SmokeyBoulder Road; and BLM parcels eastof Riggins, south of the Salmon River.

Several closures remain in effect.On the Payette National Forest, theFrench Creek Road (246) will remainclosed between the Salmon River and

Willow Creek Road (329). Additional-ly, the Lake Creek Road (104) will re-main closed due to fire vehicle traffic,and the Nez Perce-Clearwater Nation-al Forest area closure order for landsnorth of the Salmon River Road. TheGrangeville-Salmon River Road (221)remains closed south of the SlateCreek junction to the Salmon River,including Spring Bar Campground.

These closures will be lifted whenconditions allow.

To date, the Nez Perce-Clearwaterhas detected nearly 280 fires whichhave burned across more than130,000 acres.

Current information on area clo-sures and fire restrictions can befound online through the followingwebsites:

• incident management at: INCIWEB.NWCG.GOV;

• Nez Perce-Clearwater NationalForests f ire information at1.USA.GOV/1LV3RWA;

• Idaho Fire Information at IDAHOFIREINFO.BLOGSPOT.COM;

• Idaho Department of Fish andGame’s fire center, FISHANDGAME.IDAHO.GOV/CONTENT/FIRE.

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Hells Canyon’s reputationfor big elk protected well

Few of Idaho’s game units have alegal description as simple as Unit13’s: “that portion of Idaho Countybounded by the Snake River on thewest, the Salmon River on the eastand north and the White Bird-Pitts-burg Landing Road on the south.”

The words belie the tough geogra-phy contained within it. The Unit 13mule deer controlled hunt has consis-tently posted some of the most favor-able odds of any tag drawing in thestate — considering 247 hunters ap-

plied for the 200 available last year —and the reason is limited access.

The unit isthree-fourths pri-vate, but also fea-tures predomi-nantly ruggedc a n y on - l a n d sthat spill off theJoseph Plains tothe Snake andSalmon rivers.

Much of thepublic land in theunit is scattered,and the largesttract is a ForestService in the steep bottom belowWildhorse Butte and Haystack Moun-tain.

In 2014, 124 of the 196 whoshowed up for that mule deer huntfilled their tag.

The controlled archery deer seasonin Unit 13 typically features 50 tags,and in 2014, 20 of the 36 who report-ed hunting there reported success, ofwhom 88 percent reported a buckfour points or bigger.

The topographic map of Unit 18 isvaguely similar, but from most dis-tances the distinctive features physi-cally can’t be overlooked. The SevenDevils tower over the unit in a wayunlike any of Unit 13’s features, andmake the public land west of Rigginssome of the steepest anywhere.

Apart from the ruggedness, nearlythree-fourths of Unit 18 is managedby the Forest Service, making it by farthe most public unit of the Hells

Canyon elk zone, which also includesunits 11 and 13.

The zone is one ofjust two in the Clear-water Region thatmeets Idaho Depart-ment of Fish andGame elk manage-ment objectives; nogeneral elk season isoffered.Fire information

No fires have beenreported in theseunits this fall.

A current, detailedmap is available on-

line at the Nez Perce-Clearwater Na-tional Forests’ fire information page:HTTP://1.USA.GOV/1LV3RWA.


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.84Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Elk hunters* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555Elk harvest* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 1.3* No general. Controlled hunts only.


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.46Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Elk hunters* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707Elk harvest* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 2.8* No general. Controlled hunts only.

When the chance to take a wolf,legally, came along in 2009, morethan 30,000 hunters bought wolftags. But during recent years, wolftags have sold far more slowly thanthose for the customary big gamepredators: bears and mountain lions.

Idaho County has long dominatedthe record books for mountain lionsin this state.

In the years since 1961, whenGene Alford scored the state’s Booneand Crockett record cat at 15 11/16somewhere in the Selway drainage, abig cat from no other county hastopped the list.

Hunters have exceeded that markthree times within the county proper,most recently when Rod Bradley took

one at 15 14/16 in 2007.By then, however, it had been 19

years since Alford reclaimed therecord from Matthew Motil. Motilmade it 15 12/16 in 1987, but thenext year, Alford put an enormous 163/16 —the only sixteener on Idaho’sbooks — to his name.

The Idaho Department of Fish andGame does not list wolves among itsstate records, but does list blackbears — and both of the state’sbiggest black bears came out of theClearwater Region.

In 1991, Tim Bartlett tagged a Unit11 bear that measured 22 2/16. Pre-viously, Harold Boyack had the recordwith a 21 13/16 bear in the Kooskiaarea.

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For those who may not be aware,the “sportsman’s code of ethics” is nota law, but is a set of guiding principlesthat most outdoorsmen live by: re-specting private property, practicingsafety and conserving game animalsas valuable resources to be enjoyed bypresent and future generations.

Poaching violates both the spiritand the letter of Idaho’s wildlife laws.

Many violators are unlikely to fol-low the law no matter how stiff thepenalties. After all, some people haveconvinced themselves that the state’slaw does not apply to them, or justthat they can get away with breakingit. But some may be simply unawareof how harshly Idaho treats thosewho break wildlife laws.

For a wide variety of illegal hunt-ing practices, penalties range from$300 to $1,000. But when trophy an-imals are taken illegally, the maxi-mum climbs to a $10,000 fine, sixmonths of jail time and, possibly, rev-ocation of hunting privileges for up to10 years.

In separate incidents in 2009, twomen who illegally killed deer werestripped of their hunting privileges byIdaho judges.

One pled guilty to spotlighting fivedeer after legal hunting hours andwas fined more than $12,000 on topof forfeiting his license.

Another was ordered to pay$3,000 in fines after he and his wifepled guilty of taking big game with afirearm during muzzleloader season.

These cases were reported nation-ally, including by the Los AngelesTimes, because the bans thesescofflaws received were enforceablein 31 states under the InterstateWildlife Violator Compact.

In 2014, a citizen’s anonymous tipnamed a Weiser man in the poachingof numerous deer and several domes-tic cattle. An investigation followed,unearthing 65 violations including 23felonies and 29 misdemeanorsagainst four men.

Several others were granted im-munity in exchange for their testimo-ny against the four main defendants.

Charges included hunting withouta license, taking big game with theaid of artificial light, unlawful posses-sion of deer parts, taking deer duringclosed season, waste and cattlerustling.

Through plea agreements with theWashington County Prosecutor’s of-fice, the four defendants agreed topay $24,450 in fines and penalties.The penalties included restitution forthe livestock losses; the men forfeitedtheir hunting licenses.

These license suspensions extend-ed to 37 other Wildlife Violator Com-pact states. The defendants were eachgiven 24 months of probation, duringwhich any violation could lead to 180days in jail for their poaching crimes.

Idaho joined the Wildlife ViolatorCompact in 1991; the list is now 38states long, according to the IDFG’sInterstate Wildlife Violator Compactwebpage.

Poaching can also be reported tothe Idaho Department of Fish andGame Clearwater Region office inLewiston at (208) 799-5010 or via theCitizens Against Poaching hotline at(800) 632-5999. Callers can remainanonymous and will be eligible for areward.

Ethical hunting

It’s not justthe right way;it’s the law

• I will consider myself an invitedguest of the landowner, seeking hispermission, and so conducting myselfthat I may be welcome in the future.

• I will obey the rules of safe gunhandling and will courteously butfirmly insist that others who huntwith me do the same.

• I will obey all game laws andregulations, and will insist that mycompanions do likewise.

• I will do my best to acquire thosemarksmanship and hunting skills,which insure clean, sportsmanlikekills.

• I will support conservation ef-forts, which can assure good huntingfor the future generations, and passalong the attitudes and skills essentialto a true outdoor sportsman.

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Grangeville have long been home notonly to elk and deer, but to hardypeople who know how to live off theland. If the marks made during themining booms in Florence and ElkCity have faded, the modern settle-

ment of wildlands makes similargrooves. The legacy of pack horsesspecialized for hauling freight hasgiven way to modern roads. Thesebear little resemblance to the mentalpicture that comes with the word“suburban,” but many are of a resi-dential character.

This is the WUI, the wildlandurban interface,

Units 14, 15 and 16 feature someof the state’s highest deer huntingsuccess rates, not only because theproportion of deer to people runs inhunters’ favor, but because these unitsare home to many accomplishedhunters who “live in the woods” in themost literal sense that old expressioncan be understood in modern times.

Prospects for the 2015 deer seasonare as strong across these units as inany across Idaho — and the Idaho De-partment of Fish and Game’s outlookprojects a record year.

Fire InformationThe southern part of Unit 14 was

hit hard when the Tepee Springs firejumped the Salmon River on its heav-iest day of burning. Much of Unit 14south of Slate Creek remained closedat last check on Sept. 17, as did theSalmon River Road east of Riggins.

Units 15 and 16 were hit by theBaldy Fire, near the Pilot Knob Look-out, where Forest Road 466 remainsclosed. No closures are in effect onthe Selway River side of Unit 16,which was ravaged by the Wash andSlide fires.

Road closures related to the Dead-wood Mountain Fire are also still ineffect in Unit 15 southwest of Elk City.

A current, detailed map is avail-able online at the Nez Perce-Clearwa-ter National Forests’ fire informationpage: HTTP://WWW.FS.USDA.GOV/DE-TAIL/NEZPERCECLEARWATER/HOME/?CID=FSM91_055753.

IDAHO FISH AND GAME

Four consecutive mild winters and record mule deer fawn survival in 2014-15mean hunters should see plenty of young bucks this fall.

Biologist debuts‘Untamed’ film

Idaho Fish and Game’s Clay Hayesof Kendrick grew up in rural Floridaand moved to Idaho in 2007 to workas a wildlife biologist. He startedTwisted Stave Media in 2012 with thegoal of preserving and promoting tra-ditional woodsmanship skills andlending a voice to the wildlands heenjoys. He recently released his firstfilm, “Untamed,” and it can be seen atIDFG.IDAHO.GOV/UNTAMED.

Hayes began filming his outdooradventures with an old VHS recorderin Florida while he was still in highschool. Since then, the country hasgotten steeper, the equipment moreexpensive, and the adventures moreremote.

Hayes participated in a question-and-answer session with Idaho Fishand Game’s public information spe-cialist Roger Phillips about his film-making, hunting and more. Views ex-pressed in this Q&A and the video arehis own.

Q: You went hunting with archeryequipment you made yourself, thendecided to film the hunts solo andproduce a movie. Did you wear rollerskates to make it a little more chal-lenging?

A: Ha, no, but that’s an interestingconcept for the next project. Not surehow well they’d roll in the mountainsthough. I’d say I captured about 95percent of the footage, though I didhave a little help. Jake Way did a littleof the filming, as did Tiege Ulschmid,and my wife, Liz.

You’re spot on about the challenge.Hunting with primitive gear is onething, but making a film about it isquite another. You have to do every-thing multiple times to be able to cut itproperly. And sometimes you just haveto get lucky.

Q: What part of “Untamed” areyou most proud to have captured onfilm?

A: That’s a difficult one to answer..., I’d have to say either the barred owlthat snuck up on me while I was takinga nap, or the stalk on the black bear. ...I ended up getting within about eightyards of that bear. He was a nice one,but five miles in on the fifth day of a10-day elk hunt isn’t a time or place Iwanted to deal with a dead bear.

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Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.63Deer hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,489Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,053Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 2.6




Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.63Deer hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,489Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,053Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 2.6


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Playing solitaireFire InformationUnit 19 itself was mostly spared by

fire, but the main access route — theSalmon River east of Riggins — wasbriefly closed during the height of theTepee Springs Fire’s rage. The mainoverland route to the boat ramps eastof Riggins — the Salmon RiverRoad — was opened Sept. 18.

In Unit 20, closures in the vicinityof the Crown and Noble fires werestill in effect for roads 9550 and9553, as well as trails 208, 503, 585and 586. Unit 16A was hit by theWash Fire, but no closures were stillin effect at last check. Unit 17 is af-fected by the Army Mule and RollCreek closures in the Selway-Bitter-root Wilderness south of Powell.

A current, detailed map is avail-able online at the Nez Perce-Clearwa-ter National Forests’ fire informationpage: HTTP://WWW.FS.USDA.GOV/DE-TAIL/NEZPERCECLEARWATER/HOME/?CID=FSM91_055753.

IDAHO FISH AND GAME

Mature mule deer bucks are a trophy for many hunters, and every year a few Idaho bucks make the record books.

A total of 1,126 deer huntersworked the four southeastern units ofthe Clearwater Region, which areperhaps better known by the groupname of their elk management area:the Selway Zone.

Sportsmen most often hear thatname alongside that of the Lolo Zone,because these elk areas have a bit ofhistory in common, as described inthe Idaho Department of Fish andGame’s 2014 elk management plan.While the Lolo Zone peaked in the1980s, “the Selway Zone elk popula-tion peaked in the mid-1990s and hasdeclined precipitously since then...fu-eled by declining habitat conditionsand predation.”

One difference is the Selway’s af-fliction with noxious weeds, whichIDFG now aims to address at a rate of2,000 acres per year, to restore “de-sirable grass/forb community alongthe main stem of the Selwaydrainage.

A boom year for the deer popula-tion might go nearly unnoticed in anyof the Selway Zone units (16A, 17, 19and 20), as these boast the fewestdeer hunters per square mile of anyplace in the region.


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 0.5


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.99Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Deer harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 0.2


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.67Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 0.7


Acres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310,000Percent public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.58Deer hunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Deer harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Elk hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Elk harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Deer hunters per square mile . . . . 0.6

Regional firerestrictionslifted Friday

LEWISTON — Due to recent wide-spread rain events throughout manyparts of north-central Idaho, all StageI and Stage II fire restrictions are lift-ed on Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG)managed lands across the ClearwaterRegion, effective immediately. Thisapplies to all Wildlife ManagementAreas, Lakes and Reservoirs, and fish-ing access areas owned or managedby IDFG across Latah, Clearwater,Nez Perce, Lewis and Idaho counties.

Sage grouse, sharp-tailedgrouse seasons open

With sage and sharp-tailed grouseseasons opening soon, the Idaho De-partment of Fish and Game is askinghunters to help gather grouse infor-mation by providing a fully featheredwing for each bird they harvest.

Sage grouse season opened Satur-day, Sept. 19 in parts of Idaho, andsharp-tailed grouse hunting startsOct. 1.


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Pictured are: (clockwise from top left): Dillon Alder, Unit 15; Laura Fischer, Mark Milleg, Unit 14; Renee Duman, near Cottonwood; Seth and Brian Wakeling, near Grangeville.


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Another mild winter and timelyrainstorms during spring and earlysummer provided good rearing condi-tions for young upland game birds,and hunters will likely see more birdsthis year than last.

“Reports across the state are up fora variety of species,” Idaho Depart-ment of Fish and Game upland gameand migratory bird coordinator JeffKnetter said.

Out of Fish and Game’s seven re-gions, nearly all found stable to im-proving populations of upland gamebirds compared with last year and the10-year trend.

Clearwater RegionTwelve 20-mile upland game

brood routes are surveyed annuallyfrom mid to late August across theClearwater Region to index game birdpopulation trends and productivity.These data provide an index of rela-

tive abundance and are used tomonitor annual changes andlong-term trends in regional popula-tions. Due to low detection rates,these data are imprecise and shouldbe interpreted cautiously.

During 2015, weather conditionswere abnormally warm and dry dur-ing the spring and early summer nest-ing and brood rearing period. Therewas just one significant precipitationevent in very early June, which likelyoccurred prior to the peak nesting pe-riod for most of our regional uplandgame bird species. The 2015 nestingseason was preceded by several yearsof cool and/or wet springs which re-sulted in poor bird production. Sizesof game bird chicks observed in lateAugust 2015 were highly variable.This variation in size would indicatesome successful nesting occurred dur-ing the normal nesting period, whilesome of this year’s production is the

result of later renesting attempts.Overall, population trends weremixed, depending on the species.

Pheasants — The 115 pheasantsobserved in 2015 represent a 423 per-cent increase from the 22 birds talliedin 2014 and is 147 percent above theprevious 10-year average of 47 birds.There are only six years out of thepast 25 where more birds were talliedon regional routes. However, the 115birds observed in 2015 still representsjust 58 percent of the historical highcount of 199 counted in 2005. The115 pheasants observed on the 240miles of routes surveyed in 2015equates to 0.48 pheasants observedper mile surveyed. Thirteen broodswere encountered this year. An aver-age of 6.8 broods was tallied on theseroutes over the past 10 years, includ-ing a high of 32 in 2005. The averagesize of broods observed this year was5.2 chicks.

IDFG rates pheasants on the “upand up,” having seen an upwardtrend from 2014 and a better countthan the 2006-2015 average.

Chukar — Chukar helicoptertrend surveys are no longer conduct-ed by IDFG. The Clearwater Regionhas experimented with someground-based survey methodologiesin recent years, but to-date, have notidentified a reliable trend index.Chukar productivity and populationshave appeared to be trending upwardin recent years. Observations and re-ports from field staff and the publicappear to indicate very good chukarnesting success and chick survival.Several observations reported manybirds, including good numbers ofchicks.

With a favorable rating last year,and a better count than the 10-yearaverage, chukar also rate “up and up.”

Gray partridge (hun) — Thenumber of gray partridge observedthis year was much higher than lastyear’s total, and above the long-termaverage. A total of 176 gray partridgewere counted in 2015 (0.73 gray par-tridge per mile surveyed). This figureis higher than both the 2014 total of61 (+189 percent) and the previous10-year average of 94 (+87 percent).The total number of gray partridgecounted this year (176) has been ex-

ceeded only twice in the past 25years.

IDFG rated gray partridge “up”compared to last year and “up” com-pared to the long-term trend.

California quail — The numberof quail counted this year was nearlyidentical to last year’s total. A total of118 birds were counted in 2015 (0.49birds per mile surveyed) compared tothe 117 counted last year. This total is38 percent lower than the previous10-year average of 191.5 and is 69percent lower than high count of 385tallied in 2003.

Accordingly, IDFG’s long-term out-look has California quail stable, but“down” from the 2006-2015 average.

Mourning dove — A total of451 mourning doves were counted onregional routes in 2015 (1.88 dovesobserved per mile surveyed). Thistotal represents a 6 percent decreasefrom the 482 tallied in 2014, and is12 percent higher than the previous10-year average of 402.6.

That’s stable against both theshort- and long-term counts.

Mourning dove — Forest grouseare not surveyed in the ClearwaterRegion. Incidental observations andreports from field staff and the publicindicate that forest grouse productionwas above average in 2015.

Upland bird outlook

Pheasants, chukar, gray partridge chances trending upward

Deer disease EHD poses little risk

Disease unlikely todent strong prospectsfor region’s deer hunts

Washington State University vet-erinary clinic staff confirmed areadeer are infected with a common dis-ease referred toas Epizootic hem-orrhagic diseaseor EHD. This dis-ease, carried by abit ing midge,must be carriedthrough the in-sect vector to bepassed on. It can-not be transmit-ted directly fromone deer to an-other. The term‘epizootic’ de-notes a diseasethat is temporari-ly prevalent andwidespread in ananimal popula-tion. Since theinitial outbreakof EHD in 1955,this disease hasoccurred primari-ly among white-tailed deer (O. vir-ginianus), although occasionally inmule deer (O. hemionus) or prong-horn antelope (Antilocapra ameri-cana). Present in the United States formore than 50 years, EHD has notcaused significant long-term decreas-es in deer populations.

This disease occurs in most yearsin the Clearwater Region. “Someyears it manifests itself more thanothers. It is typical to see more of anoutbreak on hot and dry years. Thishas certainly been one of thoseyears,” Clearwater Regional supervi-sor Jerome Hansen said.

There is no evidence that humanscan contract the EHD virus eitherfrom the midge or from handling andeating venison. Cats and dogs do notcontract EHD. Among livestock, onlycattle have been documented to beclinically affected by EHD and thenonly very rarely with a very mild clin-ical course that lasts a few days withlethargy, low-grade fever and someloss of appetite.

Numerous reports have been made

in the Grangeville, Harpster, Juliaet-ta/Kendrick, Troy/Deary, White Birdand other surrounding areas.

“There arestill plenty ofdeer to hunt, butoveral l abun-dance could beaffected locally,”Clearwater Re-gion wildl i femanager, GeorgePauley said.

As its nameimplies, deeroften suffer fromextensive hemor-rhage. Hemor-rhage is mostoften associatedwith the heart,liver, spleen, kid-ney, lung or in-testinal tract, al-though no or-gans appear tobe exempt. Ex-tensive hemor-

rhaging is the result of interferencewith the blood-clotting mechanismtogether with degeneration of bloodvessel walls.

White-tailed deer develop signs ofillness about seven days after expo-sure to midges. Deer in the earlystages of hemorrhagic disease mayappear lethargic, disoriented, lame orunresponsive to the presence of hu-mans. As the disease progresses thedeer may salivate excessively or foamat the mouth; have bloody dischargefrom the nose; lesions or sores on themouth; and swollen tongues. Affectedanimals are often found lying in ornear a water source as they attempt tolower their core body temperature.

“We see more outbreaks occur dur-ing late summer and early fall (Au-gust-October) as deer gather at wa-tering holes where the midges alsotend to congregate. There is noknown way to control these outbreaksother than wait for a frost to kill themidge,” Pauley explained.

Within two weeks of a frost, docu-mented outbreaks often cease.

“We see more out-breaks occur

during late summer andearly fall as deer gatherat watering holes wherethe midges also tend tocongregate. There is noknown way to controlthese outbreaks otherthan wait for a frost tokill the midge.”

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