Email your WB members and express your concerns over the tag allotment programs if you don't like it and or don't understand it.
If your not willing to put a shovel in your hands or donate your time or money into actually doing something for wildlife that these tags pay for, then gather in masses to get them revoked and reinstated back to the general draw where they'll make thousands versus millions and let's all complain that the DWR isn't doing enough.
Go ahead and try to crucify me, I'm used to it.
I'll focus my energy on the 400 people that will be at my banquet in 3 weeks supporting conservation versus the 15 on here that don't.
I've wasted enough of my time and resources showing you where these conservation dollars go that wouldn't be there otherwise.
Try actually DOING something versus complaining on the forums, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ?
"Where they will make thousands vs millions"
That's the entirety of the Utah attitude.
Slam, I was in one of the biggest waterfowl management areas(won't say which as I don't want to put heat on the guy), "not doing anything for wildlife". While we were riding out, the manager and I were talking, and I asked him what his biggest problem, besides water, was.
Point blank he said money. The best biologists, don't work for the DWR, because they can't compete in salary. Pointed to his own situation, a guy running one of the largest WMA in Utah, and a kid he trained, makes double, working for a private group, running 1/4 of the acres.
Gave me something to think about the rest of that day as I was "just complaining on the internet," in July on a 102 day in the swamp surrounded by mosquitoes.
Point being, this "conservation tag" crap has become its own self fulfilling issue. State budgets are tight, so in swoops a group and helps out, group then goes to the state and says, "hey we helped out, we need tags", state looks at the millions generated by tags, and doesn't bump budgets for DWR.
Round and round we go, until some guy" who doesn't lift a shovel" posts 10.5 pages of tags handed out, one week after 200 more were handed out, showing in writing, just how bad it's gotten.
Further, Slam, I go to banquets. Let's not pretend the "400" folks there, will generate the price whatever tag your auctioning off will. Or that whoever is on the other side of that phone line, ever lifted a shovel. Here's a test, ask daddy deep pocket, after he wins the tag auction, if he will donate it back, so you can auction it off again to raise more for conservation. You know, put out money without receiving anything in return. I mean these guys are conservation warriors, shouldn't be a problem, right?
Ya. We are on our third trip to the WB for cams. I'm sure the corporate class that guides the majority of these "conservation tags", won't pull the same crap.Thecsystem is a tad rigged, in case you forgot how MDF even has an expo project.
I'll ponder that next time I'm hunting on nature conservancy ground(no tags), while looking for the SCI ground(tags). I'll think about it while on the ground MDF, RMEF, SFW, and nature conservancy just bought, and I promise I won't wonder, with all those millions in tags over the year, did they need a partner without a single one.
Maybe, I'll do it today, when I look west at AI, and think about the millions in tags "to save the island", but on which A CLOTHING COMPANY, KUIU, had to pay for the sheep on it.
Nah. Better not ponder any of that, because that leads to questions, and questions get mighty uncomfortable once in awhile.?
I realize you don't get paid personally.
