EJ, you are correct that license fees paid for gamelands. Unfortunately, the money there is to spend on them isn't enough to do all that could be done to enhance habitat. A lot of our gamelands is stuff they got cheap because it wasn't that good for much to begin with and making it good for wlidlife while trying to make it pay for itself isn't always the easiest task. I'm not saying that it couldn't be done better. I beleive it could in many places. I'm just saying that it can be a big job taking a chunk of ground that no one wants and turning it into a game paradise which is what we'd all like to see.

Iwould support for a user fee for gamelands that would be set aside strictly for maintenance and improvement of those gamelands. I'd supprt a user fee for anyone using them but we also need a higher fee for non hunters who wish to use them. even If we never have a user fee for hunters, we still should still charge non hunters who hike, bicycle, fish, birdwatch, horseback ride etc on gamelands. I pay taxes but I still have to pay launch fees tolaunch a canoe or camp or use a pavillionin a state park, why shouldnt the PGC charge non hunters to use what hunters have paid for?


I don't remember the exact percentage but I did see it just a short time ago and the PGC only holds the mineral rights for a small portion of the states gamelands.