You do realize that just running an agency required by law and Legislative mandate to fulfill a management mission still costs money don’t you? Do you think salaries don’t need to be paid when times get tough. Do you think the automobile manufactures just give the agency new vehicles to replace the worn out ones every year at the 1999 prices? Do you think the garages that work on those vehicles do so at 1999 costs and provide the parts at the 1999 price listings? Do you think when we pull up to the gas pump everyday or two and fill the gas tank they are only charging the 1999 gas price?

Do you think the Food and Cover crews are buying seed, lime, fertilizer and fuel for planting and maintaining habitat at the 1999 cost?

You aren’t of those people that has no idea that the Game Commission doesn’t get money from the tax dollars and has to work off of a self funding system are you?

And as for timber cutting, there is no more timber being cut now then was being cut in 1999 when the timber values were MUCH higher then they are now. In fact today they can’t even get companies to bid on much of the timber they would like to cut even though cutting it would be a benefit to wildlife.

R.S. Bodenhorn