Thank you

[Deafirishman]

Just wanted to take a moment and say thank you to those who live in elk country for allowing myself and countless other non-residents for the opportunities to hunt on your backyard. I know there are people who give non-residents a bad rap for the way they treat the land. I respect the land as if it was my own. Very few of us ever get the opportunity to hunt in elk country. I cherish each season/opportunity as if it were my last. Again, thanks for the opportunity to pursue a majestic animal. May you all arrow a bull of a lifetime this season. God bless.

[Swede]

Deafirishman, I don't need to be thanked for the opportunity you have to hunt, and recreate on mostly federal public lands, but you are very welcome. Lets be fair here. Nonresidents pay far more for the opportunity to hunt, and travel much farther on average. Some of the best hunters I have had the pleasure to meet are nonresidents. With few exceptions they are true sportsmen.
I lived and worked in the forests of the Pacific Northwest for a career. It was never the nonresidents that hauled garbage out like old mattresses and left them where they camped. Their fire rings are not a mass of tin foil and other garbage, and I don't remember the time I saw a license plate from out of State hauling a couple guys around in the bed of the pickup riding in lawn chairs, drinking beer and carrying a bow.
No sir, it is not the nonresidents that are the slob hunters I see. As far as I am concerned, you are more than welcome to hunt Oregon whenever you like. If you happen to land in my neck of the woods, stop by for a visit if I am in camp.