Great information provided by Lady Forge, even FACTUAL charts to go along with it rather than just someone saying what they said they saw. I think it is a great idea what Piatt county is doing with the volunteer work. Id gladly do something like that in Lake County to help out with the parks in order to pay and deer hunt. Heck, I have a bow stand about 60 feet from Forest Preserve land in Lake County right now. Got a decent 10 pt with my bow at 9 yards coming from the FP property. I'd gladly put in some time on that Forest Preserve to help with the day to day operations when I can. Clear brush, help with mowing and clearing drainage, all would be fine by me. Plus, It would almost be like scouting as well.

I'm curious, this new poster coming on here just to ruffle some feathers talks about how there would be "no interest". Again, this is comical that you say this which is why most of your other so called facts aren't even believable. If there is no interest, why is Mchenry County RAISING their fees every year and now doing a point system for those who don't draw areas? The prices have gone up 3 consecutive years and if I am correct almost tripled in the past few years and every year they are getting more and more applicants. I know a few of the points that you are raising are false as well, but Im not getting into a pissing match with someone who is stating things that are not true. Lady Forge already showed that you are incorrect on your facts and I would like to thank her about that. That county should really be a model on how all counties should be run.

I also was told how the proposals for Will County were put together and the numbers that were quoted were biased and made to make it look like this program is a lot more expensive than it was. You get people who don't want to put the program in place and have them influence the numbers and research and you wonder why the numbers are so high? I can tell you price for a registered sharp shooter to come in (which is usually an off duty cop) getting paid time and a half because it is overtime, baiting, the time it takes to get the deer out, testing and then butchering is a lot higher than in probably mentioned is this so called research.

Fe2manz, you are not being beneficial to this sight, providing no good information and pretty much just trying to start fights. You made your point that you are against hunting in FP and we clearly see that but unless you want to add some information that is beneficial to hunting on other posts, please leave the site. Thanks