Montana Looking at Reducing the Amount of Enforcement Time for Game Wardens

[bigtex]

Montana game wardens are one of the few states where game wardens are limited to only doing natural resource law enforcement (no drugs, traffic, etc.) However, Montana legislators are looking to fund their game wardens via federal funds (Pittman-Robertson & Dingell-Johnson) which state that the state cannot use the funds for enforcement purposes. If the current bill passes, a Montana warden can only do enforcement work for the equivalent of 8 months of the year. The remaining 4 months would have to be non-enforcement work.

http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/fwp-wardens-will-focus-less-on-enforcement-if-current-funding/article_cb7809ae-3cb7-516b-aea5-8c30f4fad712.html

[Happy Gilmore]

It would be smart for WDFW to start looking for alternate funding sources. Senator Pearson is a good old boy from Monroe and knows about how our region is being run and how local WDFW management views the public. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I think his comments in WDFW management "might" have been influenced? We also presented to the commission at their meeting. Basically, outlined the failing system with management and old enforcement views. We met a supportive commission who can't understand why a local manager has been discouraging recreation on public land. More to follow.

When I was 14 I worked at a gym in Monroe owned by my brother in laws three best friends. I used to spot Kirk when he came in to workout. 😊 

Our group which is simply trying to keep recreation land open to the public has met opposition from all of WDFW. Now we are working on taking away their money before they can take away/repurpose our land to the private salmon monger groups in the name of federal requirements to rebuilt habitat.

If it costs some manager jobs, so be it.

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/975819/WDF&W_BUDGET.html

[Happy Gilmore]

Funny, just got an announcement from WDFW that 70 acres designated dog training and they are opening the gate the area manager said he would never open again..... Haha..lol. After a thousand man hours and special mediators assigned to the dog training issue, WDFW punted a bunch of money into nothing. So, all the wasted time to cut off public access and the public won... Won back what they have been trying to take away. Got the email today.

I'm not quitting on this issue until the managers who tried to kick the public off the property are gone.