RE: more on the PGC's blunders!
That's the thing Charlie. They get input now from the citizens, via CAC's, quarterly public meetings, and letters, phone calls, and emails. Most, if not all reg changes are in response to citizens groups complaints / requests. The entire board are just ordinary citizens with a background in the outdoors. They're intensively reviewed by sportsmen for about a year prior to even getting sent to the governor to nominate one to the senate for their confirmation. It's a whole process that starts with a citizen putting together his/her resume and then getting their local senator to endorse them as a candidate.
Hanna, the rep who introduced this bill isn't very knowledgable on "outdoor issues" and it appears he doesn't even know how the current system works. This bill was spurred on by a small club who think because they don't get their "demands" met by the pgc, they aren't listening to anyone. But yet they are listening to the demands of a couple million. The states hunters don't want politicians in the mix and luckily, there are some politicians who don't want saddled with the job either. That was pretty obvious when the usp got clobbered in front of the game and fish committee and on tv too.
Bottom line; there's a lot of bogus bills that were put out there by some politicians who want control of hunting and the assets of the sportsmen for their own gain. All the major sportsmens organizations are against them except for one small group. And the anti's are even supporters of these bills.