It seems that the cost of hunting is on the same upward spiral evident in everything we now purchase. Chances are we will soon face a hunting environment that the Europeans have experienced for hundreds of years. This has been said before but we need to focus on the wildlife available in our home states and stop the auction mentality that the F&G departments love to create and benefit from. The main driver and goal of our F&G department's is to grow the departments and true management of wildlife is the excuse they use for that. The only way to control that trend is to restrict the money flow!. Five day hunts (Sound familiar Colorado?) are absurd, I've been suck in a tent longer than that, unable to hunt because of severe weather. They are using the same techniques as wall street, create hype, and restrict availability so the price will rise to their benefit. It's a hard decision to make, staying in a person's home state, because we all want to hunt as much as we can but it's the only way to control those money hungry "Game Managers" running F&G departments. Telling everyone that 64,000 hunters flooded the web site in Idaho, true or not, just feeds into that mentality. Stay home and enjoy the wildlife resources available at reasonable cost!. That said, Good hunting Lj
