ORIGINAL: RSB
ORIGINAL: fellas2
RSB,please do me a favor and quit belittling the hunters of this state.Please remember,if it weren't for them you'd be collecting unemployment or working in the local McD's.
I’ll tell you what I’ll always call an ace and ace and a spade a spade. I’ll also stop laying the blame on the hunters of this state when the hunters allow themselves to become educated on the real factors instead of thinking they know a lot more about wildlife management then the trained professionals.
The fact is that the vast majority of the hunters don’t much of anything about deer other then where to place a bullet in one, how to gut it and how to eat it.
If you think the hunters across this state have done their job then you have either paid absolutely no attention to the history of deer management in this state or you never understood that hunters should be the tool used to manage deer within the limits of the food supply.
Get the book “Deer Wars” and read up on the part hunters and politicians have played in the REAL story of what has happened as far as deer management, and mismanagement, across this state over the past six or seven decades.
Oh, and by the way I DON’T WORK FOR THE HUNTERS, I WORK FOR THE RESOURCE. Hunters have in the past paid for wildlife management but make no mistake about the fact that if hunters don’t pay that bill the State’s tax payers will. I’m not so sure that wouldn’t be a better thing anyway since so many hunters refuse to be educated and seem to be more of a problem then an asset toward doing the right things for the best possible future.
R.S. Bodenhorn
The future of hunting is on private land, just look towards our southern neighbors. Most of the HR has taken place on public lands and private land open to hunting, now those private lands are drying up with leasing happening just like our southern States. Your PGC has no control over where an antlerless is used, they should have been issued for private land or public land only. Most hunters hunting State Gameless Lands aren't seeing even one deer, they are dropping out of the sport faster than the national average.
The future of hunting will be determined by the DCNR, not the PGC, our PGC has served its purpose in the past, but outside influence has clouded its mission. Our SGL's are being managed for timber, why not have out timber experts (DCNR)manage this land rather than an uncontrollable agency that won't admit they make mistakes.
You sure would have to change your attitude to become aForest Ranger, your people skills are the same as the upper management of the PGC.