ORIGINAL: chr103yod
If you buy a Dmap tag and don't fill out the report card you get fined and you can't get another tag the following year. Why isn't this the case with all hunting licenses? If they made this change we would finally have accurate numbers.
Thats only true on a limited basis. Year before last, my kid was turned down for a DMAP for "not reporting the previous year" I complained that I had personally sent the report cards for myself and both sons at the same time. My son was then given an affidavit to have notarized and he got his DMAP tag. This season, the same landowner told me they didnt even keep track this year due to problems in the past like my son's .
What we need is online reporting like the PGC website has now for DMAPS and make it mandatory for all hunters to report on any license with a tag at seasons end. You print a receipt (in case it gets "lost"). Next year, no report reciept, no license or you pay a penalty to get your license.
I qualify this with one thing: The PGC must have the computer capabilities to police it accurately. Right now, they dont seem to have a reliable system for policing reports and that has to come first.