RE: Michigan License Fees
Seems to be the same rhetoric as always. I posted earlier they have raised fees in regard to duck stamps and antlerless permits. Lets just have an annual sticker for $10.00 each for each and every person that uses State Land, this sticker would allow you to park on or along side State land and use that land for your recreation purposes. I have tried hunting a piece of State land that has mountain bike trails all through it, just a great feeling to be all set up before sunrise and have 3 or mountain bikers come whooping on through or maybe some horseback riders. They are brainstorming, give me a break they are going after the easiest money. If they were truly brainstorming they wouldn't put an additional burden on the hunting population. Right now they are disposing of tracts of land that are not connected to major State Land holdings, you know the type, that little 40 acre parcel down the road from you that you hunt. The one not many people know about, and you hunt in peace and quiet. Well they want to sell that to a developer so he can build homes in this booming economy of ours. Our maybe sell it to a township or city (if they can afford market value for the property, sounds like an asset to me)that will make a nice park out of it with trails and swings and no hunting. I am a member of MUCC and was a district rep for MUCC many years ago. They do many good things for hunters but they are not the be all end all for us.