ORIGINAL: waiting_for_a_gift
Not many weighing in from WI here.... I feel very strongly:
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
2. Condense the management units. By about 30%.
3. Permanent statewide AR, 4 pt., no exceptions, 1 buck per person per year period. No EAB ever, period.
4. Stop having separate tags for gun and bow. Have one deer license, you can hunt either or both seasons/weapons, but only one buck and does as allowed. Pay one time for deer license, then kill as many as you want or are allowed. No extra fees for doe tags, just bag limits per management unit. No field carcass tags, just your plastic card, tag em at reg station with a readable adhesive tag like at grocery store.
5. Nix the whole CWD program. They've had CWD out west for 20+ years, hasn't affected their hunting at all.
6. Use the money saved for enforcement.
7. Ban all baiting and feeding forever, period.
Good post.....but unfortunately its a pipe dream.