ORIGINAL: bob d
hey i never said i had the answers ,but you did , so what are they .
my kids can hunt in illinois cause they are residents , i make several trips out of illinois a year and i pay the non resident fees so it only makes sense to me that illinois should get a higher fee too .
and don't tell me about holding politicans responsible they do whatever they want too with the money , look at all the federal dollars that have not been put into wildlife
bob d,
With all due respect, your logic, and I don't know how to say this more politely, is just plain ignorant. When will people learn?
"i make several trips out of illinois a year and i pay the non resident fees so it only makes sense to me that illinois should get a higher fee too."
Where exactly "out of illinois" do you go and pay $500 for a whitetail tag anywhere in the world? You don't, because there is no such place. In fact, there is no place with a whitetail tag price even 60% of that. Bighorn, elk, mulie are not whitetail, the most prolific game animal in north america. This is setting the bar way, way too high. And in essence, tells all nonresidents, except rich ones, to go pound sand. Do you not see other states will also follow this with reciprocal rates? Do you know less and less of these fees are being returned to wildlife, instead ending up subsidising completely unrelated general fund entitlements? Do you see how this hurts all hunters......me, you, and our kids? Would you like your kids to be able to affford to hunt out of state someday?
How could any hunter anywhere possibly be in favor of this? And if so.....WHY? Your reasoning sounds like "hey.....they are screwing us so let's screw them even more" without any thought of the repercussions......or what animal we are talking about.
The answer is to pay attention to what is going on, instead of being greedy. Write your legislators and join wildlife groups who object to this raping. Write other states as well. Educate your fellow hunters. I do all of these things.