Originally posted by Scarlett Dew: Many threads of late have been those concerned with severely lower deer #'s in the field last year and even MORE compounded lower #'s this year. The IDNR is taking public feedback right now and shutting it off in late Feb.
Get your comments in.....don't forget to leave them with suggestions like shortening the gun season, reducing antlerless quotas, etc, etc. Those that have no disregard for the way things are headed to a severely reduced herd already will not be happy with suggesting reducing the # of days of gun season......but who cares. Listening to "that crowd" got us into this mess faster and deeper that we are in now.....and caused the IDNR to choose their second option (prop2.0).....not their first option (prop1.0). Click in the link below.....let the IDNR know how you feel about this current disaster of Prop 2.0 that the IDNR was forced to do. Copy the same response you send to the IDNR and send it to your Legislators too. Also sending a copy to Bryan Pointer and Pat Early of the NRC would be a good idea too. If Woody can send 100's of emails to Bryan Pointer to push crossbows and supporting extending this "special antlerless" season we got with Prop 2.0.....(as Bryan Pointer said about Woody's email barrage to him).....then we can send our 100's of ideas on how to undo this mess to Bryan Pointer of the NRC.
Bump..........continue to let the IDNR have your feedback. Many are letting them know we are SICK of what they were forced to do.........and SICK of what it is doing to our herd. Talked to 7 different hunters in just the last MONTH that say they are getting out of deer hunting next year due to lack of animals.
Ya see that IDNR.........Low Quantity = Lower participation = Lower IDNR revenue.
Better get busy getting ready to create interest in hunters again with your new regs as Quantity will NOT keep hunters buying tags. You've had a money making machine for decades with a long gun season......as long as you had quantity in place.
Many know that will be a bad formula for you to keep in the future to keep hunters interested in buying tags.......
........and a lot of us know what that next "interest" will be when "quantity" gets low........
