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A House committee Monday morning took a bite out of the only remaining good bill for Wyoming?s multi-billion dollar wildlife economy.
Not content with cratering the 10% license fee increase that was supported by the vast majority of Wyoming-based hunting organizations, Rep. Marti Halverson (R-Etna) proposed an amendment to strip a provision out of SF 45 that would have allowed the Game & Fish to use public funding to pay for Grizzly Bear Management. That sends a rather sour note to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service looking to delist grizzly bears. One of the key components to delisting, as most who pay any attention to the issue know, is an ?adequate regulatory mechanism,? which SF 45 helped provide.
We suppose it's not too much of a surprise, since the bill has been generally opposed by Bob Wharff and the Utah-based Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife and its associated organization, Big Game Forever: see: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...untability-appropriate-safeguards.html?pg=all.
Wharff & SFW were the same folks who helped lead us down a decade long path that kept wolves on the Endangered Species List well after their recovery goals were met.
Full story here:
http://wypols.com/2014/02/24/bad-news-for-bears-panel-rips-grizzly-bear-funding-out-of-sf-45/
Not content with cratering the 10% license fee increase that was supported by the vast majority of Wyoming-based hunting organizations, Rep. Marti Halverson (R-Etna) proposed an amendment to strip a provision out of SF 45 that would have allowed the Game & Fish to use public funding to pay for Grizzly Bear Management. That sends a rather sour note to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service looking to delist grizzly bears. One of the key components to delisting, as most who pay any attention to the issue know, is an ?adequate regulatory mechanism,? which SF 45 helped provide.
We suppose it's not too much of a surprise, since the bill has been generally opposed by Bob Wharff and the Utah-based Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife and its associated organization, Big Game Forever: see: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...untability-appropriate-safeguards.html?pg=all.
Wharff & SFW were the same folks who helped lead us down a decade long path that kept wolves on the Endangered Species List well after their recovery goals were met.
Full story here:
http://wypols.com/2014/02/24/bad-news-for-bears-panel-rips-grizzly-bear-funding-out-of-sf-45/
