Well. I feel it' safe to say the state benefitted from HR...while part of the purpose was the biodiversity, no one is denying that they were also protecting their timber assets.Granted any benefit the PGC might have recieved would be minimal...as they don't rely on state funding, but being a state agency, their cooperation with the program was requisite. Perhaps they hoped for congressional support for a license increase for their cooperation with the rest of Ed's agenda? Sad thing is, that many of us would probably have given them our last dollar just to keep them from "going to the other side", and for a commitment to the hunters. I know I would have. Sure wish they would have stood up against statewide HR, and appealed to the hunters to lobby their support for a license increase. I think this could have turned out alot differently.