Grant will help open land to hunters

[bobcat]

OK, well five more years and the oldest daughter will be 10. That MIGHT be old enough. So don't go anywhere!     (I have a feeling you'll be getting a lot of PM's over this)  

[jackmaster]

OK, well five more years and the oldest daughter will be 10. That MIGHT be old enough. So don't go anywhere!     (I have a feeling you'll be getting a lot of PM's over this)  

i promise you this i wont just let any whack job hunt my place, and definatly not going anywhere, i have a 15 year old son and a 12 year old daughter, whats funny is they could almost careless about huntn, my son deer hunts but i wont let him shoot the deer or elk at are house, but if you get a chance to bring your dad out to hunt some ducks then no problem, and it would be pretty easy for your pops to get around

[bearpaw]

jackmaster that is really decent of you...


Regarding The Grant:
This is exactly the sort of thing Pittman/Robertson or Dingle/Johnson sporting goods tax funds should be used for instead of planting and managing wolves.

[Wacenturion]

These same people in WDFW touting how wonderful things are going to be with these extra access dollars are the same ones responsible for screwing up an innovative department access program that originated in 1991 and ended up under wildlife management due to a reorganization in 1999.  For all intents and purposes that program was pretty much eliminated by wildlife management during the past 10 years.

As a comparison....it was stated in the news release........

"The department currently has access agreements with more than 630 landowners, providing access to more than 1.23 million acres of private land around the state."

Back in the 90's, agreements increased to an all time high...approximately 1300 landowners under cooperative agreements with in excess of 3.2 million acres of private lands under agreement.

Net loss of half the landowners and approximately 2/3 of the acres since 1999.  Oh they're going to work wonders?  What a bunch of BS.  You have to be staffed properly to service agreements and be there for landowners...and that's not going to happen.  More smoke and mirrors.