Wdfw pitching license fee increase

[Special T]

Maybee if they did a decent job it wouldnt be so hard to recruit new hunters....

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[Gringo31]

I'll pay an extra $10/year forever if they boot Cenci and Unsworth......and let Todd have a go at the helm.

[JimmyHoffa]

I just don't get the warm feeling that increased cost will result in increased product quality with these guys. 

[Curly]

Maybe if they didn't waste money on wolves like the $850,000 for that consultant, it would be easier to get behind fee increases. But the way things currently are, it seems like they should be reducing the prices.

[bobcat]

I have a few major issues that don't make me want to give more money to the WDFW.

1.  The $850,000 they wasted.

2.  The fact that there are very few places to hunt in southwest Washington due to timber companies closing all their land to the public.

3.  Native Americans being able to hunt whenever, wherever, and however they want.

4. Mike Cenci hasn't been fired yet, or at the very least, demoted.

I think that about covers it.

[CarbonHunter]

Put an additional tax on all the wild caught salmon sold in the grocery store and the pike place market. It's time the yuppies start contributing to wildlife management and stop trying to squeeze an extra 10% out of the 2% of Washington residents that actually buy a hunting license. 

[CarbonHunter]

If they want more money from me I would be happy to buy a wolf tag if they set a season.

[bigtex]

WDFW is currently $825,000 above their projection for this date in license sales.

We are about one year in to the 2 year budget cycle.

Right now WDFW's Fish, Wildlife, Habitat, Business, and Capital/Asset Management programs have spent more than they projected at this time. Only Enforcement & Capital (construction) are below their projections.

Is this earth shattering breaking news? No because we still have one year in the budget to go, but obviously it's better to be in the black or just barely into the red. However, Wildlife is $1.4 million in the red, Fish is $1.3M in the red, and Habitat $2.2M in the red.

[Miles]

Pretty sure I said there would be more stuff like this years ago when they did their temporary increases.  Once the increase takes effect there will be no decreases in the future.

Same old crap.

[bigtex]

Pretty sure I said there would be more stuff like this years ago when they did their temporary increases.  Once the increase takes effect there will be no decreases in the future.

Why should there be a decrease? Is there anything in life that actually goes down?

[JimmyHoffa]

Pretty sure I said there would be more stuff like this years ago when they did their temporary increases.  Once the increase takes effect there will be no decreases in the future.

Why should there be a decrease? Is there anything in life that actually goes down?

gasoline, income, plane tickets, candy after Halloween, home values, etc

[huntnphool]

 We have another thread going where people are looking for ways to increase odds of drawing, the common belief seems the easiest method is to price people out, thereby decreasing the number of participants.

 Then we get threads like this where people complain about incremental price increases, effectively, slowly (boiling frog technique) doing exactly what most agree is the only viable way of decreasing players.

 Sorry but I just find this funny!

[Limhangerslayer]

We have another thread going where people are looking for ways to increase odds of drawing, the common belief seems the easiest method is to price people out, thereby decreasing the number of participants.

 Then we get threads like this where people complain about incremental price increases, effectively, slowly (boiling frog technique) doing exactly what most agree is the only viable way of decreasing players.

 Sorry but I just find this funny!

nailed it.  No matter what, they always want our money!  But it's for more fishing opportunity!

[Firedogg]

I don't mind a "needed" increase, but this spells major increase with capital letters. We cannot standby to support this and need to let representatives at every level know this is excessive. Itvwill lead to fewer fishing licenses sold losing the state even more money and reduces the risk someone takes fishing without proper licensing leading to further illegal/unregulated harvests.

[Bango skank]

We all have to chip in to buy francine maddens new vacation home