Comments on: Drought forces trail closure http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2011/08/22/drought-forces-trail-closure/ The Oklahoman's Ed Godfrey is your guide to the great outdoors Wed, 15 May 2013 19:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Brian http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2011/08/22/drought-forces-trail-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-9603 Brian Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:23:05 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/?p=3360#comment-9603 Travertine Creek and the two springs that feed it are both beautiful and to hear that they are running dry is just heartbreaking. I hope they get rain soon and that the springs start flowing soon as well.

]]> By: James http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2011/08/22/drought-forces-trail-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-9541 James Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:01:28 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/?p=3360#comment-9541 The park has done a good job of taking out a lot of the eastern red cedar and burning some parts of the park off.

However, if they were more aggressive and just burn everything they need to burn in one season rather than stretching it out, it would be much easier to maintain.

Of course, then they wouldn’t have a lot of work to do for awhile, and might be able to save some money in full time staff…

Hopefully it’s re-opened and many hunters take part in the doe only harvest and get the doe numbers down so they can re-institute an antlered harvest. Maybe instead of banning it completely they could require a deer to have 8 points or better before being harvested.

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