Tri
I ran the MDF, that is just a little different than working for the MDF.
This is the only time I will address you. I dont know you or anything about you other than you state a lot of "opinions"
Remember TRI, opinions are like butt holes, everyone has them and they all stink..
I did not state an opinion. I stated facts that are backed up by numbers that would all stand up in a court of law. I am not just an eye witness to how the system operates. I helped create the system and administer the system and am a an EXPERT witness to how it worked.
How I said the tags generate money and where it goes and who generated what is FACTUAL. The only OPINION I gave was that regardless who promoted the tags they would generate the same amount of money.
Now This opinion is based 100% on the fact that I left SFW and went to MDF an the tags continued to generate the same amount of money and in many cases even more. RMEF sell tags that increase as well. The group that has the tags is irrelevant. The faces have changed but the tags continue to raise millions because the tags sell themselves.
Again this is not an opinion, this is a mathematical and statistical fact and historical. Do your homework young fella. You have lots of passion and plenty of opinions but you lack in experience and knowledge on this matter.
I ran the books, the tags, the auctions, the meetings and EVERYTHING else that had to do with the administration of these tags, the awarding of these tags, the money generated by these tags and the projects completed by these tags.
My comments on this matter are not opinions, they are facts and that is hard for someone like you to accept.
There are many people smarter and more knowledgeable then I am on many many things. Tri there are many things I am sure you are more knowledgable and smarter on then I am. But rest assured, conservation and expo permit generated money is not one of them.
I don't have opinions on them I have knowledge. Knowledge is power and knowledge is truth. This truth and knowledge supersede any opinion you or anyone else has that did not create and facilitate these programs and dollars like I did.
Now if a handful of people that have the same knowledge and experience as I do on this wants to chime in then I welcome that. There is only a handful of them. You and I know who they are and I respect everyone of them. I sat in meetings with all of them and had this very discussion.
Tri you are trying to play way out of your pay grade on this one my friend. But hey, don't let the facts stand in the way of your opinions. The truth is always the truth. And the truth is just how I stated it.
You don't have to admit it or even give it credence, you can claim it is an opinion just like yours but that does not change the fact that is is the absolute truth and not an opinion.
Expert. Look up that word Tri. That is what I and a handful of other people are on the Utah Conservation permit program and revenue. Call Bill or Troy or Don or Byron or Greg or John or a few others. Some of them and I may differ on some fundamental ways to manage wildlife but we are 100% on the same page as to the knowledge and benefit and process and results of the permit money.
You Tri are ignorant to this program and money. But thats ok. We live in a country where you can be ignorant and still have a voice.
Go ahead and have the last word Tri as we know you NEED it. I will bow out and look forward to seeing many of you at the the upcoming Hunt Expo and at my Expo in March.
The floor is now yours TRI.
Tony Abbott
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