Popeye, Haystack, & Srwshooter,

I totally agree with ya'll on this one! It seems to me that this is a no-brainer. Population control is the so called objective here so why does it make sense to increase the cost of taking a bear? Well, IMO it goes back to the ol' adage "squeaky wheel gets the grease"(of course this being VBHA). These guys take the samepath as a lobbyist group in Washington. They cry foul whenever things are'nt going their way! As you said haystack, "division is not what we want" butwe cannot allow VBHA/VDGIF tocontinue to throw the stand-hunter under the bus just because that's how he likes to do things. Charge Non-Residents / Charge hound hunters and leave the rest of us alone.