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This post is for all people who are trying to split hairs on whether funding comes from Feds or State. Many people speak without having anything of substance to back them up. I can tell you that in AZ there is a substantial (approximately $500,000) worth of funding from Arizona Deer Association to the AZGFD that comes directly from our couple fundraisers/banquets each year. This figure seems to be left out in all of these internet posts. Another source of "funding" comes from people that are on habitat partnership committes donating time, resources such as water trucks, radio collaring deer/elk, predator hunts etc......There are a few people on this board that regularily donate time, money, services etc.....that are not accounted for in the neat ratio's of state and federal allocations. Let me put it this way. Last night ADA met with the Assit Director Steve Ferrell and one major problem now is the inability of AZGFD to tabulate and tell US the people that ARE donating money and time where our dollars are spent. Basically we are asking for an accounting of where we are at with projects we funded and how much money has been spent and how much is left. The existing accounting system (or lack thereof) is not allowing the AZGFD to answer our questions. Regardless of your position on the AZ fiasco there is alot of "other money" that is not coming from federal sources and we dont know how it was spent............ Allen Taylor......