It is word of mouth from hunters. Some of them are so tied up in a single incident like the truck door being torn off by a trucker. I would almost bet that it WASN'T an accident from the truckers stand point! But, it is made to sound like it happens all the time. People shooting from on the road, is a proficiency exam going to help that problem? The only thing that will is enforcement. Put new laws in? The only thing that will do is create another law that the slobs will break. Who do you hurt by doing that? Hunters as a whole.
I've talked to the locals up here, I've talked to the truckers, I've talked to the interior wildlife protection officers out of Fairbanks, I've talked and polled several hunters that regularly use the Haul Road and from what I'm hearing, the incidents that are happening are few and far between, but of course you hear about them more than anything else up here. I think it isn't as massive of an issue as some people make it sound, but some folks either feel so passionate towards it, or have their own agendas, that they feel they need to give up hunting real estate, throw in new laws, make new proficiency exams, and so on, opening new doors for anti's or the government to put new restrictions on us. What's next, will we have an "authorized" IBEP instructor ****** us on hunts?

You can sit around and LYAO, think that I know what you feel I should know, but in my opinion, I think the public in the publics eye that you so mentioned before is other hunters that complain about the unethical yet legal acts of other hunters.

We have come up with alternative ideas for cleaning up slobs not only on the Haul Road, but throughout the state. Just as Wahya said,
"Should we find a way to regulate it ourselves by using bowhunters to police other bowhunters?"
I think that is a lot better step towards cleaning up our supposidly scarred image internally, rather than put new restrictions on us.

Prove to me that it isn't word of mouth. AK Nimrod has spent a good amount of time on the road and has only witnessed one or two illegal acts, I've been on the road nearly 130+ days in the last two years and have seen one illegal act, I could go on. The wardens say there were 2 or 3 violations handed out last season on the Haul Road. Where's the proof that it is not word of mouth?