When I say that he will not get the full credit of his successes, I refer to the fact that when things come around fully, the new guy in charge will get the nod from the few that bash Alt on a constant basis. they will never give him his due as they have a hard one for him and that will never change. When all is made right they will say that the now guy in charge was their saving grace, and never see things for what they really are. A constantly evolving program that was bravely instituted by the one guy with a big enough set to get the ball rolling. To get something accomplished in our real world, you have to grease a few palms, give in order to get. that is the way it goes. There may be a price up front to pay to get things moving in the right direction. I think that the price can easily be amortized over time and be well worth it. Some may be paying a little more up front right now, and I sympathize a bit. But the one thing I can't get past is just who is buying all those tags and shooting more than should be taken in those troubled areas? That is a simple question with an obvious answer. To those folks all I can say is the solution lies within their own actions. Blame allocations all you want, but it is YOU who is pulling the trigger. The special interests are playing your own greed against you. Gary Alt has little to do with that. Maybe his mistake was thinking that hunters would know better and not fall into that scheme. That the price would be promised but that hunters in those areas would withold some of the payment. Maybe his big mistake was underestimating the level of greed that exists in some hunters minds. He possibly held some faith and that he was sadly mistaken. The one tradition he counted on, that hunters always looked out for the resource and left some for future seed, was the one tradition that was left to wither.