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Non-residents in Idaho Shed Hunting
trophyhunt:
Winter closures help the herds, not over charging for a license. Those idiots chasing animals on snow machines should be easy to catch, and punishment should be harsh, like losing their machine. Nobody is gonna buy a non resident license just to pick up sheds. This new law wont detour the flood of people in certain areas one bit, it’s just one more stupid law.
Feathernfurr:
--- Quote from: trophyhunt on February 01, 2025, 12:53:57 PM ---Winter closures help the herds, not over charging for a license. Those idiots chasing animals on snow machines should be easy to catch, and punishment should be harsh, like losing their machine. Nobody is gonna buy a non resident license just to pick up sheds. This new law wont detour the flood of people in certain areas one bit, it’s just one more stupid law.
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It absolutely will control crowds some. I’m sure you have your arguments, but until you live there and have seen it your input just isn’t really valuable. That’s not a disrespect things, it’s just facts. Live there full time year round and see what the locals see then form your opinion. As much as you’d love to think it’s simple to catch those folks it’s just not that easy. That state is made up of so many large tracts of blm, usfs, and state land. Not all law enforcement officers have authority to enforce laws on other agencies land. The blm officers there where a lot of the winter closures exist are spread thing. By requiring individuals to have a license it gives officers the authority to hold people accountable on federal lands. In many of the winter closures the fine for shed hunting is $75 and forfeiture of their antlers. It’s an absolute slap on the wrist. With the license requirement it just gives idfg officers a better tool to protect the resources. I understand people’s love of freedom and dislike for government oversight. But we as outdoorsman have proven time and time again that we can’t be left to our own devices to recreate responsibly, and so the government is forced to step in when we can’t respect the resources. A lot of Washington residents like to treat Idaho like it’s the Wild West and get upset now that they’re starting to step up and protect their resources. Washington, as most of you have said, has gone to chit for hunting and fishing. Respect Idaho’s resources and management and theirs won’t go to crap like Washington has. If you don’t like it, then move there.
Broomd:
--- Quote from: trophyhunt on February 01, 2025, 12:30:38 PM ---democrats love stupid laws that restrict peoples rights, just saying.
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On that we can agree. But Idaho isn't restricting here, simply capitalizing on a resource.
I've been called many things in my life, but never a democrat.
chukardogs:
I've been called a whiner, an idiot, a democrat, a socialist and half the problem just because I have certain things that matter to me and certain things I just can't get worked up about. I just wish my mom was still alive so I could have shown her that I was only "half the problem" and said, see, I've said all along that I'm not 100 percent of the problem in this family.
I'll probably be called far worse before it's over so, meh' oh well. If it makes some on here feel good to call people names, whether they have even the slightest clue who they're corresponding with, c'est la vie! Tomorrow's a new day.
Wood2Sawdust:
I know nothing about this but --How do the 3 million acres of National Forest fit into this?
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