PR monies..........

15% of your purchase of various hunting related gear goes as a tax to the Federal Government and place directly into the PR fund.

Each state is given a percentage of the fund dependent on two things.

1 Land mass of the state

2 The number of hunters in the state

In the last six years the PR monies have soared due to the present national administration and its view on guns. American citizens as you know are buying guns and ammo like never before! Indiana has been using the majority of their share to purchase property for hunting and fishing. Good use for the money as we as sportsmen can never have enough public land.

We are limited by the rules on disbursement, our land mass is smaller than a lot of other states. Then, what seems to be a misconception, each hunter can only be counted once. It IS NOT every license purchased. So when Gary waants people to hurt IDNR's PR money by not purchasing a antleress license it doesn't work that way. ANY single type of license and IDNR gets paid.

Now when IDNR gets the money it must be spent and it can not be held or moved to a "slush fund". Rules are VERY Specific and fines are large if misused. Only license fees are moved to state accounting and held hostage by the legislature.

A few years ago the FWCC looked at creating a user fee for Fish & Wildlife areas so we could capture some money for the non consumptive users, hikers, bird watchers ect... We were told if PR monies were used in any way on the property if a user fee was established ALL PR money used on those properties would have to be refunded.

I hope this helps for those who wanted to know more.