Trask Unit roads closed

Big chinookie · 09-20-2006, 06:55 PM

My son was down scouting for the up comming deer season.
Most of the roads were posted (closed) with a signs that read (call the forest service for details).
Any one out there have any idea what is going on?
We have hunted the Trask for many years and have never seen signs loke this before.
I know there was a large (POT) sting down there but I would not think that would close most of the roads. :whazzup:

Roseybulls · 09-20-2006, 07:15 PM

ttt

DRUNK COWBOY · 09-20-2006, 08:46 PM

Are they yellow signs? Where we hunt down at the coast, they have travel management signs on all the dead end roads. It is a good thing, except people still drive on them. They have been handing out huge fines if caught driving behind the postings..

StickFish · 09-21-2006, 05:10 AM

Sounds like a step in the right direction - I stopped hunting the coast cause there are too many people out there doing the same thing, then I spent two weekends at hunter sight in days and saw how relative skill level of the general public

Get out and walk

wife&3kids · 09-21-2006, 06:42 AM

Drunk Cowboy is alive? I was getting worried..
They usually don't close the roads until rifle season and leave them open during archery season (which I hate) except it saved us an hour walk last year, right DC?

Norm · 09-21-2006, 06:52 AM

Yes, it's a ODFW travel management area. There is also a area in the Wilson unit around Gods valley that is posted. It'suposed to keep the traffic down in sensative wildlife ares's.

Don Becker · 09-21-2006, 06:53 AM

If you want to give me (PM) a more secific geographic description of the area, in the Trask Unit, in which you saw these signs, I will try to see what I can learn from ODF. I'll likely be doing some hunting in the Trask come smokepole season. Don

Jeremy · 09-21-2006, 07:38 AM

Were you in the area up around Hembre ridge? most of the roads that go into clearcuts are gated off up there now during hungting season, the tillamook ODF office has a map that shows them all and they had a press release out about it last year.

http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/news/NR02269.shtml

DRUNK COWBOY · 09-21-2006, 07:46 AM

wife&3kids,

Oh yes, I remember it well. Elk screaming and a hint of Bounty fresh was in the air