Island park road needs a dozen of the overpasses

Great info! Love the efforts around natural habitat and tributaries. Keep it up Nate. 👊🏼

Great job Idaho, now let’s build more

We need more overpasses like these in other areas of the state.

I love it! Keep up the good work and build more wildlife passages! ❤

Great for the deer. They need all the help they can get. Over a 1000 deer and not one gaint buck.

Very cool!!!!

Great work everyone!

When are you guys going to start doing Buck to Doe ratio's like other states? It is the Does who dictate the migration movements, that is why you do not kill does every year. Watch the Wyoming migration video. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just steal it!!

Thats wildlife harrasment! I dont care what job title you have or permissions you give yourselves.

Love this!

It’s too bad you would need about 4 more like Officer Williams to even put a dent in the amount of poaching, rule breaking and otherwise awful hunter behavior just in that small area around Salmon -much less the big units like 40, 41 and 42. The officers do a great job but they are severely understaffed and our wildlife deserves better and more funding for enforcement and less funding for KZbin podcasts and marketing designed to sell more tags and make more money.

I don't need thousands and thousands of parasitic biologist to tell me what my eyes tell me. You hypocrites planted german browns and rainbow trout in native Cutthroat waters,, your all fired for poor job performance and planting non natives in native waters...your fired fools

Fish and game.... your fired for poor job performance and propagating non native fish into Cutthroat waters, you are all fired if you work for gov. Or state and you do not do your job.... pack your bags state parasites, your fired.

After listening to this I have more appreciation for your profession. It’s true that if you find yourself in some situation that involves a game warden they are not some badass they are just enforcing the law

Shh, let everyone stack up on the banks for high class hatchery fish.

It seems "Fair Chase" could be defined by how fair it is for the thing being chased. If an animal cannot rely on any one of its senses, sight, smell, sound, and now the ability of thermals to undue their natural camouflage, it isn't "Fair Chase". I can talk at a normal volume, move around as much as I want, and smoke a cigarette as I use my thermal to scan across the canyon at 800-1000 yds for the trophy buck I'm going to kill. How fair is that?

I've been a hunting guide in the Idaho Backcountry for 28 seasons. I recently used a thermal for the very first time guiding a trophy mule deer hunt on the Salmon River. I've hunted the very same country without a thermal for all 28 seasons. During that week of hunting with the aid of a thermal, I estimate I saw 50 % more deer than I would have without the thermal. The thermal enables you to spot game that would normally take hours to glass. This allowed me and my client to cover 3 to 4 times the area significantly increasing the odds of killing a mature buck. The thermal is to binoculars as binoculars are to the naked eye. If thermals and long-range optics are not regulated in Idaho the numbers of mature bucks and bulls will continue to drop.

Going out tomorrow morning

How wonderful for the Big Horns and the people watching over them!

Great, and we need more of them everywhere....

Good job, Chel! Fun work. That Covid test looked brutal!

you guys are talking about shooting 1000 yard lots of people are shooting 1500 yards. very tough decision you have to make. i am a lifelong Idaho resident and have seen hunting change a lot none of my grandkids are even going to hunt even though i try my best to get them to go. Thanks for your time on these tough decisions.

Caldwell ponds are all weedfilled

Thanks for all that you all do. Love this!

I'd like to hear the plan to mitigate walleye in lake lowell and snake river.

Hopefully you're training an AI on those redd images. Should make counting much faster.

Great meeting and honest conversation. As a wildlife officer in another state for over 20 years I have never seen a worse development than thermal optics, they are a plague for enforcement and management. They truly are modern day spotlights often called "heaters". As a lifelong hunter myself with any type of weapon the lack of ethics involved with using these devices is a disgrace for hunters much less non hunters. Thermals, real time cameras, and long range shooting aren't fair chase, that said I love long range shooting and have taken several animals in that manner. You should take steps to ban the Possession of thermal optics real, time trial cameras, and rifles over 20 pounds or more than 30 caliber rifles (to exclude 50 cals). We have guides using thermal scopes killing big bucks every trip out which ends up being 20+ large bucks per season for 7500 per client this is unethical and not sustainable. Thermals work just as well day or night, it's like playing Where's Waldo with only Waldo on the page. From a management perspective all we can do is limit tags and season structures to mitigate additional harvest all these things contribute to. No easy fix or simple answers but glad to see Idaho is having this dialog!

Will the warmwater species like bluegill, crappie, and largemouth be restocked in the spring?

Absolutely stupid. Bear identification should only mandated where there are grizzlies, and perhaps the neighboring units to grizzly units. This is just a cash grab for online classes.

That tranquilizer is strong.

Where the hell am I he says.

I guess they wanted to make sure no one would bother them. Let's do something about ticks!

Something wrong with the introduction

Seems like you’ve really stacked the deck here in this working group with current and former employees from federal land management agencies. Seems kind of suspicious.

I really wish someone from fish and game would have reached out to myself by phone or email about my proposals. Follow up is always appreciated. When we hear nothing and don't see a particular proposal during comment, such as this meeting, it would be nice to get the feedback as to the reasons a proposal was not taken up. In particular, I proposed a special use permit to allow specific guiding for catch and release of warm water species. Allowing one outfitter to profit on a body of water is bias and allows these outfitters to set prices beyond an affordable means for many that would like to go on a guided fishing trip. I would still appreciate feedback on this. Guiding in this nature would not harm fisheries. This has been proven in other states. These current outfitters have shown that they will not give up their permits, and some specifically are passing these permits to their kids. That makes all permits unattainable for anyone else. We need to share our resources. Permits should only be allowed to be maintained for a specific period of time, so there is opportunity for others to participate. Again, please provide feedback as to the reasons this proposal was thrown in the trash.

Please get a new introduction because the present one sucks

What foundation was that? The one open to receiving donations?

This is a great video, who made it?

Kinda sad. The main reason I want to fish the lake is to catch large Lake Trout... the very fish you're trying to (nearly) eradicate. And because of your efforts through netting, have been severely reduced (especially the large ones) along with my desire to travel there to fish. Kokanee and trout are everywhere, Lake Trout aren't. 😢 I think your management of the lake as a fisheries in and of itself instead of as a part of a larger regional fishery is short-sighted.

Oberbrunner Route

I have reported a violator against our wildlife many times before and these tips helped them make a case against the individual

Thankyou sir.❤

Great info thanks!

Jeramy Unions

Annalise Lodge

General Branch

Dakota Stravenue

Very interesting discussion to me. Thanks.

Could this disease come from a bird picking it up and depositing it into another area or maybe the bear and wolf populations who range far from one area to another?