ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
ORIGINAL: explorer_Jack
ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
ORIGINAL: the outsider
So, how accurate are the polls? And I wouldn't be bragging about 60% customer satisfaction. If 40% of my customers were dissatisfied with my performance, I'd be fired.
No one said only 60% of the people in Pennsylvania were satisfied with the Game Commission. You would have to poll a cross section of all of the Commonwealth citizen to find out what the customers, as you call them, think. Hunters are NOT the only ones that have an interest in wildlife issues. Such polls have been done and the ratings show that the vast majority do support the management provided by the Game Commission. When I get time I will try to look that up and provide a link for since you.
The Game Commission isn’t in existence to satisfy customers though. The mission is to manage all of the state’s wildlife resources and their habitat for all of the citizens including future generations.
If 63% are happy with the antler restrictions that is a positive not a negative, except perhaps for those that simply don’t like them or have some agenda besides sound wildlife management they wish to promote.
R.S. Bodenhorn
You forget who pays your salary in that state? Shouldn't only the hunters be voiced there? What gives the others who don't contribute to the PGC have a say so on wildlife?
How would your commision function without hunters? How would you be able to continue your wildlife programs of non hunting species if hunters wouldn't buy a license? I think you forgot who you work for. You work for the people who pay your salary. You people in PA. need to call them on who they work for. Who has priority over who. Hunters have the largest say so over any other group out there. Why, Because they pay the PGC bills.
No hunters shouldn’t be the only ones the Game Commission listens to. In fact the Pennsylvania Constitutions specifically requires the management of our resources FOR ALL of the Commonwealth citizens.
And, I don’t work for you. I work for the resources and all of the Citizens of this Commonwealth.
Hunters have in the past chosen to be the ones paying for wildlife management. I can assure you that don’t care if hunters fund the agency or not, in fact I am becoming more and more convinced that wildlife management would be better off if we worked from the general fund and told hunter to take a flying leap with their money. If hunters don’t want to pay for wildlife management there are many others that do care about wildlife that will be very willing to demand that wildlife management be funded through general tax dollars. Personally I think that would work a whole lot better then this hunter and political blackmail.
Mission Statement:
1. The Game Commission is responsible
for managing all wild birds,
mammals and their habitats for
current and future generations.
This mission statement provides initial
guidance to the deer management
program. Based on this mission statement,
the Game Commission is to manage
for all wildlife and their habitats,
not just deer, and to manage wildlife for
future generations, not just today or next
hunting season. In essence, the Game
Commission manages deer within the
context of benefits for deer, other wildlife
and habitat in both the short and
long term.
Here is a link to the some other information that you might be able to learn from if you are capable of opening your mind enough to accept any new information, ideas or concepts.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/digestpdfs/2007/annual/annual_deer_management.pdf
R.S. Bodenhorn