Lady,

I do not know anything if they are going to earnmark funds for certain things. To be perfectly honest I dont trust our new governor one bit. The head of the DNR had a meeting a couple months back with some bowhunting group leaders. He told them flat out that now is the time to make money off our deer herd and he was going to try to raise the NR tags to 4 or 5 hundred dollars. Now he has come out and said he wants them at 375.

Bottom line is the state is hurting for money and they are going to use the deer herd as a way to help with their debt. They dont care what long lasting effects it may have on our sport................

A couple years ago when they raised the NR tags so high they where supposed to use those funds to increase hunting opportunitys around the state. Since Illinois is ranked 47 or 48th on public land access one would think that this would be a great thing to do. They rasied the rates and did not use the money the way people thought they would.

Also im sure you have been reading about all the layoffs they have done to the DNR staff??? Take a minute and read this article.
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/021205...73CV.052.shtml

We need to get the politics out of our DNR. Get a game commison where they can make sound decisions that will help all involved. Right now a state legislator can just propose anything they want and if it passes it gets in............


Don