The Saratoga Sun September 19, 2018, Page 13 THE SARATOGA SUN HUNTING GUIDE A SPECIAL SECTION OF THE Saratoga Sun • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 What’sWhat’s InsideInsidep2 p3 Heart of the hunt p4 Ungulates learn to migrate p5 CCVC announces recreation and trail maps p5 Hunting down a disease p6 Stamps, permits, license, clothing ... go p7 Bear Rehearsal p8 Tips for a good cape p8 Selecting your ideal round Area 9 closed for bear Hunting licenses and conservation stamps can be purchased at the following locations: Saratoga The Country Store 303 First St. 307-326-5638 Automated agent Shively Hardware Downtown 119 E. Bridge Ave. 307-326-8383 Automated agent Hack’s Tackle 407 North First St. 307-326-9823 Automated agent Koyoty Sports 104 E. Bridge Ave. 307-326-5551 Automated agent Riverside Trading Post 210 Highway 70 307-327-5720 Automated agent Hanna Nugget Bar, Inc. 2200 First St., Elmo Addition 307-325-6872 Automated agent Medicine Bow JB’s Stop-N-Shop 604 Lincoln Highway 307-379-2547 Automated agent Page 14, September 19, 2018 The Saratoga Sun A special section of the THE SARATOGA SUN Saratoga Sun September 19, 2018 HUNTING GUIDE PAGE 2 Just in time for hunting season! BOWS CAMPING GEAR GLOVES LEAVE SOMETHING AT HOME? WE CAN HELP! WINTER HOURS: Wed-Sat 10am-5pm Sunday: Noon-5pm 705 Freeman, Encampment • (307) 327-5298 Closed Mon & Tues ENCAMPMENT RIVER PROCESSING Wild Game Processing • Smoked Sausage Dry Ice • Shipping Available ALL MEAT 32 years experience VACUUM PACKED! Hours: 9am-8pm • 7 days a week 201 4th Street, Encampment, WY Photo courtesy of Warden Patzer Lloyd & Jan Buford Warden Patzer, left, poses with his ram and sons Austin and Forrest. (307) 327-5216 We can meet all your processing needs! Heart of the hunt SARATOGA SUN After a 33 year wait, Patzer gets a treasured trophy—and a memorable shared experience By Joshua Wood “I really didn’t know what terrain, Cervin thought the For some, the hunt isn’t to expect. I was curious as to hardest part of the hunt was Welcome Hunters! about harvesting the animal what we were going to run over. with the largest antlers or into, more the problem side “‘Hooray, it’s over. Yay, Bog Boots • Stormy Kromer Scotch Caps the biggest horns. It’s about of it. I was worried. Hadn’t he finally got it.’ I thought something else entirely. The been on horses in years, it was going to be easy after hunt is about the journey hadn’t been hiking in years. I that, then it became even We have Certified feed available and the story behind it. Ask hadn’t been doing the things harder.” Saratoga Warden Patzer about his I normally do outdoors, so I Now, 10 years after her most memorable hunt and wasn’t mentally or physically first hunt, Cervin knows the Feed &Grain he won’t guide you to an elk, prepared,” Cervin said. hardest part comes when it 1953 Hwy 130 deer or pronghorn mount in is time to pack the animal (North of Saratoga) his store. Instead, Patzer will out. At the time, though, she Open 8am-5:30pm M-F bring you to the mount of a was unprepared, especially 9am-2pm Sat. bighorn ram directly across when the ram slid nearly 400 307-326-5133 from the counter. “I told the guy yards from where it had been This ram, harvested ten shot. The act of packing out years ago, is one of his most I worked for the ram fell on Patzer and prized trophies in Koyoty his two sons. While it was Sports and it has nothing to before I took an average ram, that wasn’t Check for do with the size of the horns. the job that I the important part to Patzer. Fine Silver & Instead, the ram symboliz- “Everybody dreams of new items daily! es what Patzer was going killing this great big mon- through at the time and the was going to ster ram. You finally get a Turquoise Jewelry importance of the people go shoot one. chance, you dream about around him. this great big thing, you get Vintage Collectible Clothing After 33 years of trying to I told him ‘If there and you’re living in a draw a Bighorn Sheep tag, different state. You’re in the Western Wear Patzer finally drew for Area you don’t let middle of turmoil in your Antiques & Collectibles 3 in Wyoming east of Yellow- life and you get in there, it’s stone National Park. At the me, I’m going day seven, it’s the only one 115 W. Bridge Ave., Saratoga time, Patzer was working you can find so you just do 307-710-0751 in Idaho, going through a to quit.’” it,” Patzer said. “The most Mon - Sat 10am-5pm divorce and was just starting —Warden Patzer important thing to me is I Closed Sun a new relationship. Co-owner, Koyoty Sports had both my older boys and “I told the guy I worked Kathleen, people I really for before I took the job that cared about, were all there I was going to go shoot one. on the hunt. It’s all about I told him ‘If you don’t let The hunt for a ram took the hunt and the comradery, me, I’m going to quit,’” said nine days all together and that’s what it’s about. It’s not Patzer. Patzer, his sons and Cer- all about horn size.” Fortunately, the person vin did their hunt along After 10 years, Patzer and Patzer was working for gave Ishawooa and Thorofare Cervin are still together him time off to go on the creeks. With them were despite the relationship test hunt. Patzer, however, didn’t five horses, borrowed from of a nine day Bighorn Sheep go alone. He was joined by friend’s and family, with near Yellowstone and Cervin his two oldest sons, Austin three pack saddles and two has gone from a non-hunter and Forrest, and his partner, riding saddles. to being heavily involved in Kathleen Cervin. “We didn’t have enough a hunting family. This has “I told her ‘This is a hunt horses,” said Patzer, “but lead to an appreciation of of lifetime, you’ll never have that’s just the way it was.” the process. this opportunity, again,’” On the seventh day of the “Appreciating what we Patzer said. hunt, Patzer spotted a ram have and the harvest and the “We had actually, officially, that was not only legal to meat that’s going to go into been together three months,” harvest, but was worthy of the freezer. I have a whole said Cervin. harvesting. After shooting new respect for it,” said Cer- This was Cervin’s first the ram, following a week vin. “We are very grateful hunt—ever. of hiking through rough and always say a blessing.” Cordless and battery-free THE SARATOGA SUN The Saratoga Sun September 19, 2018, Page 15 HE ARATOGA UN A special section of the T S S Saratoga Sun September 19, 2018 HUNTING GUIDE PAGE 3 GotGot Game?Game? Think Think Full Service Learning to travel Full Service UW doctor publishes article showing evidence that Wild Game WildProcessing Game ungulates have to learn to migrate Processing By Joshua Wood Since 1972 novel landscapes migrated. of time for “social learning Since2 miles 1972north It has long been suspected With this observation, it was and cultural transmission to of2 milesEncampment north by scientists that hooved suspected by the authors occur.” Essentially, hooved of Encampment mammals (ungulates) didn’t of the study that migration animals who were placed in 327-5345 genetically transfer the within ungulate herds would a new, and unfamiliar, area After 7 p.m. call knowledge of migration like require extended periods would have to live there for 327-5345307-329-6998 multiple generations before birds, fish and insects have 77 a.m.a.m. -- 77 p.m.p.m. done. It wasn’t until just re- becoming familiar with mi- SevenSeven daysdays aa weekweek cently, however, that there gration routes to and from was any empirical proof to that location. substantiate this hypoth- Essentially, The study also showed esis. On Sept. 7, Science that bighorn sheep, as well magazine published a study hooved as moose, “surf the green titled “Is ungulate migra- waves.” The animals coordi- tion culturally transmitted? animals who nate their migration efforts Evidence of social learning to graze on plants as they are from translocated animals.” were placed sprouting along mountain One of the leading authors of in a new, and slopes. This was confirmed the study is Brett Jesmer, a after the researchers col- doctoral student at the Uni- unfamiliar, lared an additional 58 big- versity of Wyoming. horn sheep from four other To determine whether or area would populations along with five not migration is something populations of moose, which that becomes part of the ani- have to live contained 189 individuals. mals’ culture and not passed With the increased analy- genetically, the researchers there for sis, the authors of the study affixed global positioning multiple were able to show that the system (GPS) collars on “surfing” knowledge of the 129 bighorn sheep sam- generations animals increased with the pled from four populations time since the population had News you can hold on to. that had been in existence before established and increased in for more than 200 years. size. The researchers came to The researchers also placed becoming the conclusion that the lon- The Saratoga Sun GPS systems on 80 bighorn ger an ungulate population is sheep when they were first familiar with in an area, the more informa- moved (translocated) into migration tion they will pass down to human-modified landscapes following generations.