RE: 2008 Big Game records
"Your right, I am pretty angry. Why shouldn’t I be? "
Oh you should be alright. But your anger is misplaced. It should be with your employer agency.
"The point of that comment is that the day has obviously come when the hunting license dollars should just go to the State General Fund with the Legislature doing as they darn well please with it and then simply using tax dollars from ALL of the public to fund the State’s wildlife management programs. "
The Audubon Society has been saying so for years, so it MUST be true.[:'(]
"It is equally obvious that many hunters don’t want to fund wildlife management unless even the least educated among them get to dictate not only how that money is used but also dictate how the wildlife management professional do their job even when scientific management indicates they are doing the right thing."
The joke you refer to as "science" are rock bottom basic principals that pgc stretches far out of context. Taking our deer herd down a reasonable amount in some areas of the state is sound science. Taking it down everywhere and many places for zero reason and to extremes....Then "the science" (which pgc can never provide besides dropping repro and fawningrates etc)becomes merely a pathetic excuse and distraction from what is really going on.
"If the wildlife management professionals can’t use the money to do what is right for the future of the resources without listening to the least educated hunters in the state then that money is noting but a hindrance toward the future of our resources. "
And listening to the least educated AND biasedpgc employeesin the state is an improvement how?