Wednesday, February 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Class teaches bugling vocabulary to young elk hunters
East Oregonian
PENDLETON (AP) —
Verlyn Savage may speak
elk, but there’s more than one
language.
At the Pendleton
Convention Center, Savage
stood in front of a crowd of
hundreds, lifted a bugle to
his mouth, and blew a series
of short, high-pitched sounds
that faded into a rasp.
“Notice any difference?”
he asked the crowd of mostly
children.
“Yes,” some yelled back,
already picking up the skill
after their first elk bugling
lesson.
“When a bull starts
bugling, try to match its
intensity,” he said.
“When they’re talking
certain languages you have
to know what they’re talking,
because sometimes they’ll
let out a bugle that’s differ-
ent than what they’ve been
bugling, that means he’s
grabbing his cows and leav-
ing,” he told the audience.
“You’ve got to start distin-
guishing how this bull reacts
to your bugle.”
Savage was one of the
speakers at the Rocky
Mountain Elk Foundation’s
first youth outdoor skills
day. More than a thousand
people showed up for the
event, which aimed to teach
kids about how hunting and
outdoor recreation relate to
conservation.
“You see a lot of people
who don’t really understand
what (it) is,” said event
organizer Korie Campbell.
“The future of conservation
depends on the next genera-
tion. The goal is to get these
kids exposed.”
Campbell, a Pendleton
native, is currently attend-
ing college in Missoula,
Montana, where she studies
wildlife biology. She works
for the Rocky Mountain Elk
Foundation headquarters,
where she plans educational
events. In August she called
her father, Tim Campbell,
who is in the local RMEF
chapter, about hosting an
event specifically aimed at
teaching youth.
“Our chapter had wanted
to do a youth event,” he said.
“This is Korie’s passion.”
Though he runs a drywall
company by day, Savage is
a longtime hunter, and gives
several presentations a year
on elk calling.
Though much of his skill
at elk-bugling is self-taught,
Savage said each year, he has
to do some revision.
“Some techniques, you
really just have to be out in
the woods and find out how
animals react,” he said.
And, he said, the quality
of the call doesn’t guarantee
you’ll be attracting an elk.
“People are getting so
good at these, it’s really hard
to tell,” he said. But, he said,
being a good bugler doesn’t
necessarily mean you can
fool an elk.
“Some of the worst calls
I’ve heard have been from
elk,” he told the crowd.
Representatives of sev-
eral groups, including the
U.S. Forest Service, Oregon
Back Country Hunters
and Anglers and Umatilla
County Search and Rescue,
were at the event, talking to
kids about conservation and
safety.
There were also several
activities, such as skull and
track identification, a BB gun
shoot, an archery range, and
presentations for how to use
trail cameras and film hunt-
ing trips.
“My favorite part of today
is going to be archery,” said
James Montee, 12, as he
and his friends waited in a
long line to go to the archery
range.
Montee and his friends,
Elijah McLaughlin and Jesse
Acosta, are in the process of
taking hunting safety classes
now. Some of the organiza-
tions tried to help children
understand some of the
broader concepts of outdoor
recreation.
“The places where we
go hiking, camping, fish-
ing —do you guys do any of
that stuff?” Jesse Salsberry
of Back Country Hunters
and Anglers asked a pair of
3-year-olds, who nodded.
“A lot of time when you
do that, that’s on public
land,” he said. “That means
everyone in the U.S. shares
that land, from people in
New York to right here in
Pendleton.”
Bill Welch, also of Back
Country Hunters, said it can
be challenging to get kids
to understand the concept of
public land.
“We try to tie it in to what
kids like to do,” he said.
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