Community > Advocacy, Agencies, Access
WDFW airs plans for special-hunt drawings
Curly:
--- Quote from: Houndhunter on March 16, 2010, 10:53:27 AM ---"All funds raised by the sale of additional permit applications would be used to expand hunter access to private lands."
ya im sure :chuckle:
--- End quote ---
Yeah, even if the plan is to use the funds for access, I don't trust them. What happens when they get some landowners to agree to allow access for payment of X amount of money? Then other landowners will want X amount of compensation for allowing access. Then people that already allow access for free will want a handout; and the snowball begins to roll down the hill. Then when the funds run out, and the landowners can't be paid, they will just close it down to public access and give access to the highest bidder. Funding access is a bad idea......... :bdid:
Houndhunter:
--- Quote from: Curly on March 16, 2010, 11:08:38 AM ---Yeah, even if the plan is to use the funds for access, I don't trust them. What happens when they get some landowners to agree to allow access for payment of X amount of money? Then other landowners will want X amount of compensation for allowing access. Then people that already allow access for free will want a handout; and the snowball begins to roll down the hill. Then when the funds run out, and the landowners can't be paid, they will just close it down to public access and give access to the highest bidder. Funding access is a bad idea......... :bdid:
--- End quote ---
good point, i hated to see rayonier timber company last year start shutting gates and you now have to pay just to walk on their land and hunt. im not sure on exat numbers but i know you had to get a pretty big lease which wasnt cheap and pay a % for any matinence for the roads on your leased land
bobcat:
I must have made an impression with my letter. I already received a reply back from Dave Ware. Of course he says the changes have been known to the public for well over a year and posted on their website, and has been discussed many times in meetings they have had over the last year or so. He gave me several links and places to look so I can see where I should have been able to find all the information. I haven't had a chance to look at any of it yet.
Gotta give him credit for taking the time to reply to my letter.
bobcat:
A small portion of the the email I got back from Dave Ware:
--- Quote ---The bottom line is that thousands of folks have weighed in on the issue over the past couple of years. This is not new.
Also, the news release says that hunters will have more “options” not a greater chance of being drawn. Finally, the bottom line is that some folks like you with few points feel that spreading the points across all categories reduces their chance of drawing. There are a variety of reasons that folks have accumulated points, not just because they were holding out for bucks and bulls. Some just apply for ghost hunts every year. In the past, they could have decided to apply for antlerless permits. No one really knows what permits folks who have regularly applied for popular buck and bull hunts will apply for with the new categories. Had we chosen other ways to distribute points, I am certain we would have been criticized for them as well.
--- End quote ---
Curly:
"Had we chosen other ways to distribute points, I am certain we would have been criticized for them as well."
:ass: :bs:
If they had decided to let the applicant choose what category they wanted their points to be placed I doubt anyone would complain.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version