ORIGINAL: Elkcrazy8
Here we go with the money thing again. It is not all about money. I will back your comments 100% when I see you planting bushes on the winter range, volunteering for radio collaring projects to track mortality rates, cleaning up miles of forest service trails, spending time at game check stations, shoveling hay to starving elk that was bought by local RMEF chapters. Federal dollars manage forests. The only federal dollars being spent on wildlife here in my state right now is killing off elk populations. You can have the wolves back, We don't want them. We are all too familiar with politics these days. The thing that I can tell you is that the herds are what they are because people volunteered their time to give back to animals. Are you a member of an anti wolf coalition? If not I would be joining one because they are effecting YOUR animals more than any non-resident rule. But you probably already knew that since it is on OUR property.
You think that local RMEF chapters are the only ones funding the presevation of habitat and maintance of the Elk herds?
Where do you think that all of the monies generated by the RMEF goes to? Elk Habitat in Flordia or Louisianna?
Non-resident RMEF donations are going to help perserve your state's elk...
Frankly, over the last couple of years, I have done alot of thought about revoking my support to alot of these organizations... I have revoked my sponsorship of the Arizona Mule Deer Association and a few others. I'll probably chop a few others out this year.
Kinda seems stupid for me to support an organization that benifits the wildlife of a state that doesn't want to let me hunt it and rapes me for thousands in the process. Sort of like raising a herd of cattle for the rancher, then having to pay a premium for a steak or two. Doesn't make sense...
Since the states claim that they own the wildlife and want to charge non-residents a ton to hunt them, the state can foot the bill for the wildlife...