Absolutely right cayugad. The dnr can't make it with out us hunters. They can threaten to raise prices, but that will make less people buy tags. Also with the take a kid hunting. I can't believe they stated less numbers of youth hunters for a reason why the numbers were down. I get bored out of my mind setting in the stand not seeing anything. How do they expect to compete with video games. I started hunting in 91 and was spoiled in the 90's growing up in the "glory days" of wisconsin hunting. My boy is 16 mos old and I am going to do everything I can do to get the numbers up (at least on our 140 acres of hunting land) so my boy can have the same positive experiences of hunting I grew up with. As much as I don't want to do it but I think we all have to take a year or too off just like most of the guys here are saying. Except of course the Dnr "volunteer".