CDACs can be an amazing thing and resource if and only if three things occur:

#1 - Well constructed. Meaning EVERY stakeholder outlined that should be involved are involved...the fewer stakeholders represented the weight of the conclusions drawn drops as well.

#2 - Well lead. Each CDAC board should lead in an unbias approach and their personal views or opinions NEVER enter a meeting or impact opinion in any way.

#3 - Highly involved. IF a CDAC is going to attempt to speak for an ENTIRE county of stakeholders the involvement MUST be incredible. Just speaking Hunter number wise...if a county has say 3K or 4K hunters....just a 100 folks showing isn't even enough IMO to even pay attention to the survey results or questioning votes.

Those three things MUST be included for CDAC's to hold value and if are can be tremendous resource. Truly a well constructed CDAC could be the biggest public input resource the DNR could have to utilize.


DESPITE all that one must realize though that CDAC's do have a limitation no matter what and that is they are opinion driven. Opinions are impacted by a tremendous amount of various reasons inside of one person. 2 folks hunting the exact same property might view the localized deer herd completely differently....or have completely different expectations.