RE: Penn License Sales-AUGUST 06
"It is usually people that aren’t happy with any program that show up to see what they can find wrong with the way things are being done. So, maybe there really aren’t as many disgruntled and unsatisfied hunters as some people and organizations think there are."
Dick, normally I would agree with your thought process. This time I respectfully submit that the overall decline in license sales over the years since the PGC inacted this poorly managed herd reduction program plus the loss of (currently) 14% license sales in the past 2 years coupled with the poor 'disappointing" turnout for the seminar clearly proves you wrong. Nobody is buying the PGC's "magical, Mystical Method of accounting.
Also to accentuate my point simply look at the loss of nonresident license sales and that should convince even the most naive person of your misconception.
What's needed from the agency is a concerted effort and plan to stem the loss of license purchasers and turn the downward spiral around into a positive spin and increase in license sales. Was Carl Roe the best choice to lead the agency forward? Everyone initially presumed so. That has not been the case. The agency is failing. One would have thought that with Roe's military experience (30 year lifer) that he would have a no nonsense, take charge attitude. It would appear that he is a follower rather than a leader. Proof of that is the fact that he has not abated the rapid decline in license sales, the agency has no plan to address the problem, timbering has not increased to any significant degree, small game is at an all time low, and the deer programs failures are being blamed on biologists who no longer work for the agency.