I have lived in 3 other states besides PA. WV, OH & SC all have a working POS license that I feel could work here.

Check stations are a hard sell because I have heard numerous issuing agents at PGC meetings and open houses say they will not pay for the extra staff to run a check station because the PGC will not help with their costs. Why not a Tela Check system similar to KY? I believe it cost about $300,000 to get started and they have good data to work with.

I would like to see the Board of Commissioners made an Advisory Board, not the current Regulatory Board. We are paying the salaries for trained biologists to do research and present management recommendations, yet the Board makes the final management decisions. The Biologist's recommendations are sometimes ignored or worse, carved up so bad that they will never work. Buffet-style wildlife management does not work.

As for the USP and the lawsuits...I think the money spent by the PGC to defend itself would be better spent on habitat management or the mentoring programs so that we have future hunters to fund the agency. I would hope that the USP would even agree with that.

Just my $.02