On 3/11/05 the PGC posts on their website a press release stating $2,000,000 Fed. money given for special projects.....3/13/05 headlines in the local newspaper quote Vern Ross as saying the PGC will need to cut special projects as well as other programs because they (PGC) is $3,000,000 short of fiscal year finaces
hmmmmmm...... I wonder if this latest ststement has anything to do with making up some of the $900,000 in employee benefits the PGC is short of this year? OR if it is a ploy to get the general backtag lic. increase the PGC has been requesting for the last few years?????

THIS is one reason the USP is the PGC watchdog !!!!!

Typically any grants/money from the Federal Government and even private organizations are earmarked for specific uses or projects. The money you posted about is probably for a specific use and cannot be used where the 3 million shortfall is. If you post a link telling about the 2 million in federal money we can sort this all out.

IT HAS BEEN A FEW YRS SINCE AN INCREASE I WOULDN'T MIND A 2-3 DOLLAR INCREASE..... AS LONG AS THE MONEY IS BEING USED FOR THE PGC AND IS USED FOR THE HUNTERS....

I doubt anyone minds an increase like that, but I would think the majority does mind an increase without proven results on deer management. Not even the Head of the House Game & fisheries will support an increase 'til the PGC decided just what the heck they are doing with deer management.

Like I said above, the $ is for specific projcts.
Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Vern Ross and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Executive Director Douglas Austen today announced nearly $2 million in federal monies will be available soon for high-priority conservation projects for endangered, threatened and at-risk species across Pennsylvania.

These federal dollars are being made available to the two agencies through the State Wildlife Grants Program (SWG), which is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and are designed for species of special conservation concern.

let's se if there will be any adverse comments now that T in Pa has clarified???

There you go again, T!

Once again, you've taken a thread started with meaningless drivel an
half-truths and done gone and messed it all up with the facts!

FACTS! Yes that what we want, No more beating around the bushes, And their fuzzy math.

lost horn: let's not forget the PGC gets such accurate deer harvest counts from visiting butchers and report cards.....yeah that is presice counting isn't it?
You'd be a real trouble maker to ask the PGC for those "facts"

Yes I remember when they started that it was when they started calculateing the harvest it started in 1985, I think they did it by counting the gun shots they heard on the first two days of the season. If you remember they doubled the auctal harvest that year.