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Sounds like a SFW plant, anybody heard of or know him?
This guy has been here for less than 7 years and is running for a seat with the IDF&G commission.
Here's a quote from the article.
?I think I have a very firm grasp of the region,? he said. ?I understand the challenges that we have.?
Ketchum Planning Director Micah Austin is one of three finalists for the chance to represent the Magic Valley Region on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission.
The seat became vacant when Gov. Butch Otter declined to reappoint former Magic Valley representative Mark Doerr, a Kimberly resident, when his seat on the seven-member commission expired at the end of June. The Salmon Region seat is also vacant following the expiration of Challis resident Will Naillon?s term.
According to a story in the Twin Falls Times-News, 16 people applied for the Magic Valley Region seat. That number was whittled down to three by a three-person panel. Austin said he is scheduled to be interviewed by the governor on Sept. 12.
The appointments for the four-year terms will need to be confirmed by the Senate this winter.
This is Austin?s second attempt at securing the mostly volunteer job. He applied in 2013, but didn't make the final cut.
Austin, 34, grew up in Cache Valley, Utah, and moved to Idaho in 2009, first to work for the city of Jerome and then Hailey before moving to Ketchum.
?I think I have a very firm grasp of the region,? he said. ?I understand the challenges that we have.?
Austin said fish and game business runs in the family, as his father worked as a biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
He said he's been a hunter since he was 12, and now hunts deer and elk with a .54-caliber black-powder muzzle-loader that he bought from a former mountain-man revival enthusiast. He also hunts upland birds and fly-fishes.
?Idaho is a real leader in the West in a lot of ways,? he said. ?I think Fish and Game has done a real fine job of managing our wildlife resources so that they're available to all demographics, and I want to keep it that way.?
Austin said he's impressed with the amount of information available on the department's website, and would like to keep improving it.
Otter?s decision to not reappoint the two incumbents is widely attributed to opposition by the commission to proposals in the Legislature to auction off some hunting tags and to allow landowners who participate in the state?s wildlife habitat-protection program to sell tags allocated to them.
The commission?s objections to those proposals, as well as to one that would allow hunters to pay an extra fee to improve their drawing odds for controlled hunts, were expressed in a guest opinion in the Idaho Statesman in April 2015. The piece was blamed for a subsequent vote in the Legislature prohibiting the Department of Fish and Game from buying the Rock Creek Ranch west of Hailey for use as a game-management area.
http://www.mtexpress.com/news/envir...cle_ebcb81b8-747f-11e6-af65-9347c300eb78.html
This guy has been here for less than 7 years and is running for a seat with the IDF&G commission.
Here's a quote from the article.
?I think I have a very firm grasp of the region,? he said. ?I understand the challenges that we have.?
Ketchum Planning Director Micah Austin is one of three finalists for the chance to represent the Magic Valley Region on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission.
The seat became vacant when Gov. Butch Otter declined to reappoint former Magic Valley representative Mark Doerr, a Kimberly resident, when his seat on the seven-member commission expired at the end of June. The Salmon Region seat is also vacant following the expiration of Challis resident Will Naillon?s term.
According to a story in the Twin Falls Times-News, 16 people applied for the Magic Valley Region seat. That number was whittled down to three by a three-person panel. Austin said he is scheduled to be interviewed by the governor on Sept. 12.
The appointments for the four-year terms will need to be confirmed by the Senate this winter.
This is Austin?s second attempt at securing the mostly volunteer job. He applied in 2013, but didn't make the final cut.
Austin, 34, grew up in Cache Valley, Utah, and moved to Idaho in 2009, first to work for the city of Jerome and then Hailey before moving to Ketchum.
?I think I have a very firm grasp of the region,? he said. ?I understand the challenges that we have.?
Austin said fish and game business runs in the family, as his father worked as a biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
He said he's been a hunter since he was 12, and now hunts deer and elk with a .54-caliber black-powder muzzle-loader that he bought from a former mountain-man revival enthusiast. He also hunts upland birds and fly-fishes.
?Idaho is a real leader in the West in a lot of ways,? he said. ?I think Fish and Game has done a real fine job of managing our wildlife resources so that they're available to all demographics, and I want to keep it that way.?
Austin said he's impressed with the amount of information available on the department's website, and would like to keep improving it.
Otter?s decision to not reappoint the two incumbents is widely attributed to opposition by the commission to proposals in the Legislature to auction off some hunting tags and to allow landowners who participate in the state?s wildlife habitat-protection program to sell tags allocated to them.
The commission?s objections to those proposals, as well as to one that would allow hunters to pay an extra fee to improve their drawing odds for controlled hunts, were expressed in a guest opinion in the Idaho Statesman in April 2015. The piece was blamed for a subsequent vote in the Legislature prohibiting the Department of Fish and Game from buying the Rock Creek Ranch west of Hailey for use as a game-management area.
http://www.mtexpress.com/news/envir...cle_ebcb81b8-747f-11e6-af65-9347c300eb78.html
