Sharptail opener

[Montana Husker]

Originally Posted by Bucketmouth

The USDA is allowing haying on CRP fields in numerous Montana counties. Hope those young birds get the heck out of the way of the swathers, rakes, and bailers. The drought in parts of MT are becoming crtical and we have alot of summer left. YIKES!!!

I think we are blessed here in Montana with ranchers and farmers who are true stewarts of the land in their hands. A good friend who ranches north of Hinsdale told be he was out swathing and was seeing lots of chicks run out a head of the swather, he noticed a Hawk circling, waiting for the chicks to be clear of cover, so he decided to leave a few acres of standing grass for them rather then see the hawk pray on them. Kind of cool too know we have folks like that up in our area!

[jsdriggs]

That is cool>
I know a cattle rancher in WYO who does the same stuff. He'll actually walk some fields before cutting them for hay. He doesn't have many pheasants, and he likes them.
I always feel like he really doesn't want me out there hunting when I go!
Never shoot more than 1 bird on his land.

[jarbo03]

That is awesome, would like to see more farmers like that in my neck of the woods, maybe the prairie chicken wouldn't be disappearing