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[/color] Rsb, Thats a looootta twisting there pal!
Probably the only person alive that would try and twist losing hunters at over twice the national average as a "good thing".
I don’t believe we are losing all that many hunters. We lost some cheaters and some that were only interested in the easy killing, but not hunters.
Most of those that were only interested in the killing are still doing it, they don’t need a license to kill them with a spotlight though, just luck enough not to get caught at it.
If you think the hunter numbers dropped in recent years just wait until next year and point of sale doesn’t allow the people that have been getting multiple license, for the extra antler less applications, get shut down to only one license. We might find out that we are closer to the number of licenses being sold in other states that already have point of sale where hunters can’t cheat so easily.
Also, the ecoextremist agenda is running the show at Elmerton. Thats a fact. It also needs to stop. If it takes usp's lawsuit, constant contacts to legislators, writing them and phone calls, etc. Whatever, then thats what should be done. It make be a bit overly dramatic, but considering our current state of affairs, losing hunters at over double the national average, and our wildlife management agency driving their financial situation straight into the ground, Id say it fits.
You’re full of bologna; the extremists are in your camp not the Game Commission. The Game Commission is mandated though to manage all wildlife and for all citizens of the Commonwealth, not just a few hunters that want more then nature can reasonably and realistically provide.
The people that have driven the financial situation into the ground are also the ones in your camp in cooperation with the State Legislature who have failed to fulfill their obligation of keeping a state agency financially solvent.
I really like the saying and it fits here perfectly, The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
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Hey, that is a quote I use all the time.
If does fit and is exactly why I have spent over thirty years protecting our resources. It is also the reason I come to places like this and butt heads with nitwits so others with enough functional brain cells can learn to allow professional resource management.
If hunters and others do nothing, and accept the unacceptable (completely irresponsible deer management dictated by eco-extremists) then they only have themselves to blame....Reminds me, I havent contacted the fine fellows on the Senate and House for awhile. Think I'll do just that.
There you go; when you want to see what is destroying the best possible future for the resources and the hunters just look in the mirror, you will then see your own worst enemy.
[color=#000000]R.S. Bodenhorn