RE: How should Wildlife Management be funded?
I stand corrected, Thank you DougE! You are correct, the commissioners are getting paid exactly what they deserve for the job they have done.
I believe some financial benefit can be received if the PAGC implements a cost for hunter education programs. This is just my opinion feel free to disagree but, I don't mind spending money on something that I know I am benefitting from. Pay some $ and in return receive training/education. I feel we should have a mandated bowhunter ed class especially now that there is the Xbow inclusion. Alot of rifle hunters will be hunting with a stringed weapon for the first time and there needs to be more emphasis on the ethics/ responsibility side of hunting with a bow in comparison to a gun. The method of dispatching an animal byhemorrage compared to shock and trauma is different and needs to beaddressedas so. Also, how about a muzzleloader course? Some states mandate them, which isn't a bad thing. The PaGC would have the ability to create a financial gain from these courses as well as creating a safer hunting experience for all. It isn't a "cure-all" but anything that will enable the PAGC to improve habitat I am fully in support of. But this money needs to go to habitat. If policies or programs are created for the sole purpose of habitat then put 100% of that money into habitat. Don't distribute it among other progams.