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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tim Sandstrom" data-source="post: 238895" data-attributes="member: 1108">4a I can agree more roads is screwing up the border of that unit.  4c maybe a bit of that to the north.  But the rest hasn't seen Bakken development so I can't go with more roads and oil pads.  Heck, I've lost miles of roads due to reclamation.  I think more of it is on the horizon due to aging and dying wells.  Be interesting in a couple years what happens to some of these sites.Now, I do think the roadless areas they put up need the grasslands folks to get out and put up signs saying no motor vehicle traffic.  The day of ranchers riding horse is quickly disappearing opting for the reliable wheeler or side-by-side so some more prairie type trails are popping up because people see tire tracks and think, there's a trail!.  I'm not terrible disappointed with roads.  I plan to get old too and would like to be around and do some of these things so a few roads isn't bad.  But I also want rules enforced on roads that shouldn't be roads.  But the point is, I don't see uptick in roads where I am.  So as noted in other posts, I just struggled with road hunters doing all the damage.  Maybe it is a combination of road and long range rifles but I don't think so.  I don't see people going out and getting critters past 200-300.- - - Updated - - -Kurtr stated it rightly that winter in ND is tougher than Colorado due to in Colorado deer have a fighting chance to migrate.  In ND, they can get stuck in it for a long time.  So I agree, we don't want to waste deer hunting opportunity so maybe the magic compromise is to come up with a way to reduce rut based hunting.  That's where I'm leaning.  Truly am.- - - Updated - - -You and your wife did damn good given what you opened up with!</blockquote>

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