I hunt New York ands Ohio. In New York, I hunt strictly public lands and I'm 100% thrilled with the way they manage these lands for wildlife and I'm 100% thrilled with their POS system. I'm not sure about how their public funding system is working, but I know several folks that work for their DEC and they seem to be pretty happy with the way things operate.

Now, I haven't been following the NY governors attempt to close their pheasant farm very well, but from the little that I know, hunters raised enough hell about it to get the governor to reconsider. Sounds like there was some listening going on there eh?

As for Ohio, I haven't hunted and explored their program long enough to have an opinion. But I do know that I see plenty of wildlife on the private land that I've hunted.

As for Pa, I think it's high time that public funding is made available for the PGC budget in lieu of a license increase. Between my general license, muzzy tag, archery tag, doe tags, bobcat app and furtakers tag, I'm paying plenty already. At this point in time, I don't care one way or the other about the public having a stake in the PGC program, because it's quite obvious that hunters sure as hell have none.

For me, as a 51 year old deer hunter in the NC region of the commonwealth, getting the PGC solvent again and allowing them to get cracking on fine tuning this half assed deer program properly with more biologists on the ground is the single most important issue that I face. Let the public fund it. I'm tired of paying the way and getting next to nothing in return. And when Isay next to nothing, I'm not talkingthe old cliche' of having a deer behind every tree. I've never seen deer behind every tree, don't expect a deer behind every tree, and don't want a deer behind every tree. I'm talking about having enough WCOs, DWCOs, LMOs and biologists to manage our SFs and SGLs and large WMUs like 2Geffectively with hunters needs in mind.