hossblur
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Recently as the economy crashed many local municipalities put out for bid their services. Contractors started doing mantinance, landscaping, etc. The results have been lower costs and better work. The DWR has failed for at least 19 years(big winter kill of 1992). Year after year they replay the same tired excuses, winter, loss of habitat, etc. Year after year we pay them to do a job, year after year they have failed. They are good at buying new trucks. They are great at getting raises, and better benefits. They have seen hunter numbers drop by about 150,000 hunters yet they still want to push the we need fewer hunters theory. Now we have new proposals from the failed agency. All of these proposals are based on numbers that they put out. Buck to doe ratios, micro units, etc.. How do they get these numbers? Doyle Moss knows how many deer are in his units, Deseret knows, any CWMU operator knows, many of us know. Who doesn't, the DWR. Before we give into them again I want proof they know something. Postpone for one year these proposals. Then, GPS there trucks so we can see how much time they spend in the hills. Put up for bid a mule deer number study to either a private group or even a college. Have the DWR do the same, with neither group sharing info UNTIL a RAC meeting when both can unveil them in front of all of us. My bet is the DWR isn't close. Yes we have lost habitat(along the wasatch front), yes there are predators(always have been), yup winter is coming(does every year), yeah we have elk(used to have a lot more sheep and cows), sure there is global warming(Al Gore told me so). BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT none of this matters if we just keep shooting in the dark. How are we going to come up with new hunts, times, numbers, units etc based on what?? Are the extended archery guys done? It takes 4 months to do the big game draw and I am to beleive they have the check station and hunter survey data for this year already? The director of the DWR had to cite himself for not knowing where his boundary was, pretty much sums up the agency itself. What do you think?