One of the things we wanted to do is wait and see what our residual herd looks like and let this episode go through a whole cycle and see what's going on with our lambs and lamb survival.

We're probably not looking at having a season next year. There may be a ram or two that would be in that category, but it's unlikely we would open the season with such a limited number of rams.

The numbers we counted in the fall rut supported a 75 percent mortality rate. We still have around 50 head in the park.

It takes a thousand truths to build a reputation as an honest man, but only one lie to build a reputation as untrustworthy.

There's a great deal of bow hunters in Montana.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.