Grays Harbor vs. Weyco update

[Firedogg]

Bobcat, you could do like my brother and his buddies have done. Look at a map of land ownership. Lots of timber parcels are checker boarded with public owned land. My brother hikes in through open to walk in property and then sets up camp on one of those land locked public pieces. They tried to tell him he was still on their land, but the brown plastic Forest Service marker they set up camp by said otherwise.

[t6]

Longwalker .... So you think that disabled vets, disabled hunters, elderly hunters and folks on fixed incomes are TRASH?  Really? Because a guy can't walk or can't afford another pass he or she is TRASH? 

I wouldn't let guys like you pack my trash out of the woods. 

It's no wonder hunting is on the decline... its the decline of common sense and courtesy towards each other that causes people to reevaluate their choice to hunt.   

[t6]

Stand by.... Age does not discriminate.  We will all get old and someday you will have to look at the locked gates and know.... the hunt is over. 
 

[zike]

Whether you personally like the locked gates or not, these companies who charge for access are nollonger eligible for the tax break

So what about the farmers and ranchers who have open space tax breaks on their lands and charge an access fee or lease to a hunt club. Will they lose their tax breaks too. I hope so.

[bobcat]

Whether you personally like the locked gates or not, these companies who charge for access are nollonger eligible for the tax break

So what about the farmers and ranchers who have open space tax breaks on their lands and charge an access fee or lease to a hunt club. Will they lose their tax breaks too. I hope so.

Would you rather they turn all that farm land into subdivisions??

[bowbuild]

Whether you personally like the locked gates or not, these companies who charge for access are nollonger eligible for the tax break

So what about the farmers and ranchers who have open space tax breaks on their lands and charge an access fee or lease to a hunt club. Will they lose their tax breaks too. I hope so.

Would you rather they turn all that farm land into subdivisions??

Like they wouldn't do it anyway if there was enough money involved...

[montana44mag]

Stand by.... Age does not discriminate.  We will all get old and someday you will have to look at the locked gates and know.... the hunt is over.

If they just lock the gates, you shouldn't have to go too far to get into animals. 

[longwalker]

I wouldn't let guys like you pack my trash out of the woods. 

 

So you leave your trash in the woods? And we wonder why they close the gates and want am access fee....

[Elkaholic daWg]

I wouldn't let guys like you pack my trash out of the woods. 

 

So you leave your trash in the woods? And we wonder why they close the gates and want am access fee....

  You REALLY think THAT was what he meant?   

[longwalker]

I wouldn't let guys like you pack my trash out of the woods. 

 

So you leave your trash in the woods? And we wonder why they close the gates and want am access fee....

  You REALLY think THAT was what he meant?   

i really do. just as much as he thinks my comments were directed towards disabled vets  how do you suppose locking up the gates and abolishing any semblance of an access program benefits these disabled vets ability to better hunt these areas by the way?

[t6]

I've picked up trash left by people at the gates and by their own loggers. 

Locking up the gates and charging access fees is bad for game and a death sentence to the hunting of many disable people. 

Supporting this shows that you know little about how the timber companies came to own such large tracts of land and the damage that will happen to the game animals anywhere its implemented. 

[fireweed]

There are solutions out there: A few states already require non-motorized public access for the full tax break.  We could change our system to something similar, but modified  to  encourage some motorized, too. Full tax break and complete liability protections if large landowners allow FREE non-motorized access, coupled with smaller fee motorized access.  Everyone wins except well-off hunters who like exclusivity.

[grundy53]

There is lotsa country in vail and Pe ell that won't even get scratched by walk in hunters, no mater how young or in shape you are...  God I can't wait for Montana again next year....

[longstevo]

There are solutions out there: A few states already require non-motorized public access for the full tax break.  We could change our system to something similar, but modified  to  encourage some motorized, too. Full tax break and complete liability protections if large landowners allow FREE non-motorized access, coupled with smaller fee motorized access.  Everyone wins except well-off hunters who like exclusivity.

I'm in full support for non motorized access.  Strap on the pack!

[floatinghat]

There are solutions out there: A few states already require non-motorized public access for the full tax break.  We could change our system to something similar, but modified  to  encourage some motorized, too. Full tax break and complete liability protections if large landowners allow FREE non-motorized access, coupled with smaller fee motorized access.  Everyone wins except well-off hunters who like exclusivity.

I'm in full support for non motorized access.  Strap on the pack!