Manny, I'd be careful about giving the ID. F&G department any additional ideas about how to raise additional revenue ie: raising resident license fees in exchange for raising NR fees. They will do both!!. As an Id. state resident as you are I'm sure you can remember the F&G push for selling a bonus point program a few years ago. Nothing less than a gimmick for raising MORE MONEY for new pickups and building new H.Q. opulent structures for themselves. We have got to vote down every attempt they make to raise more money. That's the only way to control them. Not one lawsuit was filed by the ID. F&G department to object to the Fed,s program on wolf reintroduction that has resulted in our predator pit situation in many parts of the state. Oh, I forget that we now have another GAME animal to manage, Wolves, hire additional biologists, more pickups, helicopter time to count them!!. They knew exactly what the were doing by not fighting the Feds, creating another revenue stream. The last two Directors have been nothing more than Politicians in biologist boots and jeans and I'm sure this new one from the most liberal town in Idaho, Moscow, (next to Ketchum, Maybe ) will turn out to be the same. Lets not give them any more ideas about how to raise more money, they don't need the help! Good Hunting Littlejohn
Good points, and it certainly was not my intent. I know they do look at what other states are doing, that was one of the reasons they stated as a need to raise nr fees in Idaho.
