This. Tag priority and management decisions should heavily lean to residents, that's a perk of being a resident of a given state, just like any other reason you'd choose to live there-taxes, schools, work opportunity, weather, etc. If I loved looking at skyscrapers I'd move to New York or...
I think as soon as the West locks out non-residents you’ll see a move to ban hunting on federal land.
Non-resident hunting benefits a state in a LOT of ways beyond the money that comes in on license sales.
As hard as I hunt across the west, I hunt every bit as hard in South Carolina. I go deer hunting about 3 days a week from Aug 15 - Sep 15. Then about 6 times a week for 3 months unless I’m out of town. I shoot deer for family, coworkers, friends and friends of friends. I hunt some private and a...
Ok hang with me. I am not a good story teller.
Day 1.
Left work at around and made the drive from the east side of the state to the west side. Arrived about 5 mountain time. Met up with my nephew and drove to our camp. Had a bite to eat and set out to look around. Since it was 85 degrees out...
Low resident population? Lower funding from residents?
How would you feel if the feds banned hunting on federal land? It’s already being discussed. Talk me into caring whether a Wyoman gets to hunt on federal land if Wyoming won’t let me hunt. Good luck.
It’s easy for residents of any state to...
I read the initiative before I did the video. Have you read it or have you had an attorney read it and explain its consequences?
What you say is the purpose of the initiative might have been the intention of the person sponsoring such, but that is not what the language says according to the...
And there are pastures with corn feeders galore the way texans approach hunting. And exorbitant lease fees to shoot tiny corn fed deer standing at said feeder like cattle That does not mean what Texans do has ANY bearing or in any way informs appropriate and ethical management of hunting...
I'm actually saying exactly the opposite of this. The trend line is changing at an exorbitant rate. The "trend" of people moving to the west for lifestyle is becoming a "trend" of people moving to anywhere open to gamble on property values, and some of the largest gains to be made are in the...
Idaho and Montana do not give out more than 10% of their limited elk, deer, pronghorn, moose, sheep, bison, or goat tags...in fact they don't even give the full 10% a majority of the time.
Both are "up to 10%" but nrs are not assured a single tag...which is fine with me.
I don’t value libtard WA state. I’d move in a heartbeat if I could. Especially living on the west side. But I do have to be thankful there is some decent fishing around and my new schedule I work 7 days on and 7 days off with a 5 minute drive to work. So that does leave lots of time to head east
I think about this too much as well. For me, I think the 'gold standard' is straight random. There is an obvious blowback situation if you made peoples' points worthless overnight. There is also a long term damage to the state if say, in 2035 it takes 12 points on average to hunt an elk out...
Not sure really what's driving the move, but Sioux falls and the surrounding area are nice. Home prices are reasonable, cheap compared to Denver... If you're wanting more conservative folks and government, we have that. Decent pubic land out west river.
Pretty boring landscape tho, no...
Going along with that...
I think we need to look at "intact landscapes" rather than public/private. Here is VT (obviously the white is also private the green is just private conservation areas).
I'd also be curious how elk in the east use the landscape... obviously way more food, do they stay...
I feel like its musical chairs but this time everyone will be in the west when song stops. I just wish everyone that lived in crap places worked to fix the problems they help create and improve their neighhorhood rather to move to mine. I am pretty sure right now there are more people from...
You’d cherish public land in Texas too if Texas valued conservation easements.. Montana is quickly turning into a “MY” state instead of “our” state. Understandably, and ironically… stay there and vote on behalf of the public land lovers of Texas… Everybody is from somewhere, in my opinion it’s...
That happens here in NC on the state level as well. My dad works for forest service and they seem to always be hiring people and either moving them or not paying them enough to be able to live in an area that has cost of living prices going up faster than wages and they move in themselves.
FWIW Central Florida, North Florida aren't what south Florida is. Don't know what state you are currently in but Florida has no state income tax and maybe that offsets the 10-15% pay cut. the Culture of South Florida extends far beyond said geographic location. The fishing is on another level...