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I feel if you understood how their budget is formed and what total revenue's they bring in, given the personnel cutbacks they have had, that you would see they are actually very profitable for a public Agency, yet legislators keep them unprofitable.
Quote from: bobcat on February 06, 2010, 11:42:31 PMQuote from: Dmanmastertracker on February 06, 2010, 11:36:10 AM The DNR is a good organization, but in my dealing's with them, they are more on the conservation side in this State, the majority of Western Wa. DNR land's are not open to hunting, that tell's me a lot. Do you mean to say "the majority of DNR lands ARE OPEN to hunting? Because they are. Not sure where you're getting your information. I've hunted lots of DNR land in western Washington. I don't believe I've ever seen any that wasn't open for hunting. I think there could possibly be some in King County that may not be open for hunting, but that would be the exception to the rule. But hey, go ahead and keep thinking you can't hunt DNR land, that's less competition for me, and please keep spreading the word that DNR lands are off limits. You may be right about that, I was thinking all watersheds were administered by the DNR, but that may not be the case according to the latest map. If you total the acreage of conservation area's, watersheds and DNR lands with no legal public access, it's about a 50/50 split. The legal access issue I guess is also a little different, to me it's "closed", if a legal access is not granted, or in existence, then it's not open to hunting. There are some very large blocks that fall under this category. http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/eng_rms_mpl_7_med.pdf
Quote from: Dmanmastertracker on February 06, 2010, 11:36:10 AM The DNR is a good organization, but in my dealing's with them, they are more on the conservation side in this State, the majority of Western Wa. DNR land's are not open to hunting, that tell's me a lot. Do you mean to say "the majority of DNR lands ARE OPEN to hunting? Because they are. Not sure where you're getting your information. I've hunted lots of DNR land in western Washington. I don't believe I've ever seen any that wasn't open for hunting. I think there could possibly be some in King County that may not be open for hunting, but that would be the exception to the rule. But hey, go ahead and keep thinking you can't hunt DNR land, that's less competition for me, and please keep spreading the word that DNR lands are off limits.
The DNR is a good organization, but in my dealing's with them, they are more on the conservation side in this State, the majority of Western Wa. DNR land's are not open to hunting, that tell's me a lot.
Both DNR & BLM offer access for recreation and hunting. Both with more land than the WDFW has.
Quote from: Dmanmastertracker on February 09, 2010, 09:04:24 AMQuote from: bobcat on February 06, 2010, 11:42:31 PMQuote from: Dmanmastertracker on February 06, 2010, 11:36:10 AM The DNR is a good organization, but in my dealing's with them, they are more on the conservation side in this State, the majority of Western Wa. DNR land's are not open to hunting, that tell's me a lot. Do you mean to say "the majority of DNR lands ARE OPEN to hunting? Because they are. Not sure where you're getting your information. I've hunted lots of DNR land in western Washington. I don't believe I've ever seen any that wasn't open for hunting. I think there could possibly be some in King County that may not be open for hunting, but that would be the exception to the rule. But hey, go ahead and keep thinking you can't hunt DNR land, that's less competition for me, and please keep spreading the word that DNR lands are off limits. You may be right about that, I was thinking all watersheds were administered by the DNR, but that may not be the case according to the latest map. If you total the acreage of conservation area's, watersheds and DNR lands with no legal public access, it's about a 50/50 split. The legal access issue I guess is also a little different, to me it's "closed", if a legal access is not granted, or in existence, then it's not open to hunting. There are some very large blocks that fall under this category. http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/eng_rms_mpl_7_med.pdfWatersheds are administered by the individual county/city/water district not the DNR. DNR might simply own land that is in a watershed however it does not own the watershed. For example last year DNR bought up a lot of land in the Cedar River watershed, so they can continue to use it as a working forest and use the timber however the watershed itself is administered by the city of Seattle. There is a lot of land that DNR owns and is legally open but is surrounded by private property so access to it is basically impossible. The same goes with BLM (US Bureau of Land Management) land up in NE WA, BLM is currently working with other agencies for a land swap/purchase so that BLM can actually own some land in NE WA that is accessible.
According to the legislative report I recieved yesterday this bill is still alive and getting attention.
