Proud or Ashamed

[Special T]

the state TRIED to only charge people who used state parks  in 96ish by intituing a $3 parking fee, It bombed so hard they had to change their policy so people would come back.... People who use state parks (campers not included) are not willing to pay for day use. FACT!

[BOWHUNTER45]

please do not break the law around here !  Even though you are a free American ...some just will not like your way of thinking ....


another thing i would love to know is how many of these guys saying ashamed actually have bought the discover Pass ...I have not and I never plan on it !!!!!!!

[Curly]

I have not bought the pass.  I also haven't broken the law and gone onto DNR land.  But I may give up this year and buy it............a guy can only hold out so long, and if there isn't enough people NOT buying it to send a message, it doesn't really do any good to not buy it.

[yote]

If you wanna hike and hunt in this state by the law, there's about a million passes that you need to buy every single year... some of us just don't have that kind of money laying around after gas, ammo, tags and time used scouting....

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Glad you bent over for the feds! I will fight till the end!

[bobcat]

Glad you bent over for the feds! I will fight till the end!

Feds? What are you talking about? The Discover pass is for state land. Or maybe I totally misunderstood your post.   

[ICEMAN]

I will buy it, only so I can wipe my bung hole with it later.

[Bean Counter]

I've never bought one, but I'd be proud to do so. Hunting must be regulated.

[logger]

I will buy it, only so I can wipe my bung hole with it later.

   haha   when I am on dnr land I don't have to have 1. must be the millions my co. spends with em every year   When my co. was and still is going through the tough economy, we cut heads and ran lean with what we could. The gov. should be no different.

[Simcoe hunter]

The other issue is that it can only be used with two vehicles. So the pass I bought, if I put the license plate from my Bronco and my truck on the pass, the wife and I cannot use her car to take the family to a state park.

I paid for it, I should be able to use it for any vehicle I own.

Ah the good old days.  When the taxes we pay to the state used to cover things like this.  The general fund used to cover so much more.  The reason for all of these "pay to play" permits is due to mishandling of funds by our elected, and their appointed, officials. 

My Dad is retired from the Fisheries/WDFW.  At one time license costs and fines used to cover most of the operating costs.  Along with Pittman/Robertson Act monies.  Then they got too big for their britches and had to start dipping into the general fund.  It has been downhill from there.

I don't know the details of the Parks Dept., but would bet there is a similar story in there somewhere.  At the rate we are going all outdoor activities will be the sport of kings again and we will be relegated to the role of serfs again.

[boneaddict]

The way wages and steps have escalated along with benefits, which mine get cut yearly, its really no surprise the govt is broke.  That doesn't even include the whole welfare system.   That's a whole new proud or ashamed thread.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Glad you bent over for the feds! I will fight till the end!

Feds? What are you talking about? The Discover pass is for state land. Or maybe I totally misund
erstood your post.   


Sorry ment the state. Cant see why everyone cant support a boycot for this stuff? DO NOT BUY THE PASS!   HUNT SOMEWHERE ELSE!

[MLHSN]

Most years I don't visit state lands enough to need the pass.  I visit mostly national forest and wilderness so I buy that pass.  If I do visit state lands, I buy a day use permit.  That way seems a little more fair to me because If I want to use it, I pay for that specific use.  I'm not forced to pay for something I don't use. 

[Scrotus]

I have never bought the pass and never will. I'd rather have needles stuck in my eyes!!!

[Simcoe hunter]

I have been fortunate enough to not have had to make that particular purchase yet.  But mark my words- they will figure out a way to make us all buy one sooner or later.  If you have a drivers license and buy a hunting license you will be considered a de facto user of one of those lands.  I don't agree with that line of thinking at all.  I'm just saying I can see it coming.  40 years ago we wouldn't have thought things would be as bad as they have become either.  But here we are.  And it just keeps coming at an ever faster pace.  Tax and spend, tax and spend.  I know this isn't conspiracy theory Thursday yet, but...  I'm just sayin'.