ORIGINAL: Crazy Horse RVN
"If you forced every sporting goods store and Ma/Pa gas station in the county to act as a check station (which I don’t think we have the authority to do) and then required them to hire enough people to perform extra work like checking deer, we would have a grand total of about eight places in the entire county."
"RSB", there you go again with that Law Enforcement mentality. Your mind set is way off base. Put away your billy club and think about how many potential customers these gas stations and Mom & Pop stores would have. They'd sell lots of items that they normally would not. Why, there could even be a small fee paid to them for every deer checked. (That would be funded in any new license dee increase.)
Think of all the entry level people they would employ in areas where jobs are few and far between; especially since the PGC is directly responsible for the loss of many jobs and sporting goods stores where the deer herd has been decimated due to herd mismanagement.
You don't need to bully merchants into cooperating. Just give them a little incentive and some credit for being able to fill out a basic form.
You could really use sometraining.
Oh, but I have asked the merchants of the area what they thought of the idea of being a deer check station. After they gave it a bit of thought about having to hire extra people for one or two days a year and staying open late into the night they said no thank you.
After they thought about it for a little while they figured all they would end up with would be a lot of extra people standing around watching the deer coming in. They thought they would have so many spectators over taxing the very limited restroom facilities they have that they would have to have port-a-johns brought in. They figured they would have litter left all over their parking lot and that most of the people wouldn’t buy much of anything from them anyway. A couple of them thought about it from the perspective of setting up food tables until they thought about the fact that much of it was going to be late evening stuff when everyone wanted to just go home.
The simple fact is they didn’t want anything to do with it unless the Game Commission was willing to pay all of the employee costs and still paying them so much per deer just to be set up checking deer on their property.
Once again you go off talking about something of which you have done no research yet think you have it all figured out.
R.S.Bodenhorn