Broomer
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Went to the Central RAC tonight. I question why I even went. It's clear the RAC shows up just for PR, they didn't hear one word the public said. The only guy on the RAC who showed he cared what the vast majority of attendees had to say was John Bair.
They talked about the elk survey. They propositioned 16,000 hunters only 5,700 responded. Out of those the vast majority said they wanted to hunt quality elk more often like 5-10 years. It was proposed that a test unit (Wasatch) be used for a tag allocation of 50% archery tags to give more opportunity and still stay at objective. NOTE: I counted maybe 35 public attendees and every person that commented on this proposal favored the Wasatch Unit be used to give archery hunters more tags. Needless to say the RAC denied it.
It was similar to the Health Care Bill, Where the majority of Americans didn't want it and still the DEM's said we don't care what you want we want it, and they passed it. The RAC sat there like stubborn DEM's and wanted nothing to hear about more archery tags.
One member said that it would create mass rebellion by Rifle hunters. But admitted that no voice from the rifle hunters where there. Also admitted that Archery hunters had consistently spoken out on this issue.
What is there like 90,000 hunters statewide and only 35 ish of us show up and give our voice in each RAC. No wonder the powers to be think they are the only smart ones.
Oh yeah, spike tags increased to 13,750, Anis' response to the question whether they would sell that many he replied yes because there are more units in peoples back yards. Yeah and the fact that, that is the only opportunity to hunt elk in Utah OTC. Very Frustrating!!!
They talked about the elk survey. They propositioned 16,000 hunters only 5,700 responded. Out of those the vast majority said they wanted to hunt quality elk more often like 5-10 years. It was proposed that a test unit (Wasatch) be used for a tag allocation of 50% archery tags to give more opportunity and still stay at objective. NOTE: I counted maybe 35 public attendees and every person that commented on this proposal favored the Wasatch Unit be used to give archery hunters more tags. Needless to say the RAC denied it.
It was similar to the Health Care Bill, Where the majority of Americans didn't want it and still the DEM's said we don't care what you want we want it, and they passed it. The RAC sat there like stubborn DEM's and wanted nothing to hear about more archery tags.
One member said that it would create mass rebellion by Rifle hunters. But admitted that no voice from the rifle hunters where there. Also admitted that Archery hunters had consistently spoken out on this issue.
What is there like 90,000 hunters statewide and only 35 ish of us show up and give our voice in each RAC. No wonder the powers to be think they are the only smart ones.
Oh yeah, spike tags increased to 13,750, Anis' response to the question whether they would sell that many he replied yes because there are more units in peoples back yards. Yeah and the fact that, that is the only opportunity to hunt elk in Utah OTC. Very Frustrating!!!