I know this has been beaten to death but here are some ideas till they fix the problem.
This year the landowner has to transfer the tag to the buyer himself.
Before the hunter was not usually given information on where the property the voucher was good for and he had no idea where to get the information.
Since this year they must transfer the license in person then it would be 100% the landowners responsibility to allow hunting on there own private lands.
If a prior arrangement from a Voucher Consulting firm tried to deny this before the tag could be obtained then they would be in violation of the law.
Since the hunter gets to meet the landowner then I think it would be a good idea to discuss what was paid for the tag from the Voucher Consultant with him.
Possibly meet at a middle ground for next years hunt with the landowner instead of the Voucher Consultant reaping such a huge slice of the profits.
Remember these tags are to help the landowner not to help private business to make a buck.
If the Voucher Consultant tries to get you to sign something waving your rights to discuss this with a landowner then the CDOW should be informed. This would constitute that the Voucher Consultant is not a consultant but instead a Third Party that is actually transfering licenses by there own admittion by setting there own guidelines.
I would be surprised if these Voucher Consultants are not investigated and at least one false move causing them to be in violation of Third Party Brokering.
Then every hunter who used a license from that broker may be in violation of the law.
They may seem nice and trying to help out but remember the $$$$ is driving there services no matter how much they say they have looked into this and not to worry.....I would not touch a tag unless I got one directly from a landowner myself.
It may be a good idea next year if laws were passed limiting the voucher to "only" the private land it was intended for.
Possibly even let the landowners start a "pooled private" website where they can offer tags themselves at whatever price they want. Heck they are already losing tons of money to these consulatants I bet starting this would cost less.
Soon the good would sort out the bad and the tags would finally be sold as they were intended to be.
My opinion,
Jerry
This year the landowner has to transfer the tag to the buyer himself.
Before the hunter was not usually given information on where the property the voucher was good for and he had no idea where to get the information.
Since this year they must transfer the license in person then it would be 100% the landowners responsibility to allow hunting on there own private lands.
If a prior arrangement from a Voucher Consulting firm tried to deny this before the tag could be obtained then they would be in violation of the law.
Since the hunter gets to meet the landowner then I think it would be a good idea to discuss what was paid for the tag from the Voucher Consultant with him.
Possibly meet at a middle ground for next years hunt with the landowner instead of the Voucher Consultant reaping such a huge slice of the profits.
Remember these tags are to help the landowner not to help private business to make a buck.
If the Voucher Consultant tries to get you to sign something waving your rights to discuss this with a landowner then the CDOW should be informed. This would constitute that the Voucher Consultant is not a consultant but instead a Third Party that is actually transfering licenses by there own admittion by setting there own guidelines.
I would be surprised if these Voucher Consultants are not investigated and at least one false move causing them to be in violation of Third Party Brokering.
Then every hunter who used a license from that broker may be in violation of the law.
They may seem nice and trying to help out but remember the $$$$ is driving there services no matter how much they say they have looked into this and not to worry.....I would not touch a tag unless I got one directly from a landowner myself.
It may be a good idea next year if laws were passed limiting the voucher to "only" the private land it was intended for.
Possibly even let the landowners start a "pooled private" website where they can offer tags themselves at whatever price they want. Heck they are already losing tons of money to these consulatants I bet starting this would cost less.
Soon the good would sort out the bad and the tags would finally be sold as they were intended to be.
My opinion,
Jerry
