Sfw in alaska

[BiggWimm]

Looks like the SFW is still at work in Alaska. Even though Rossi is out, there is still some pull in the current administration.

Just saw this today and thought I would bring it to attention:

http://www.adn.com/2012/03/03/2350508/private-hunting-rights-weighed.html

 

[Ben Lamb]

Peay, who stressed that the Utah chapter isn't trying to push its view in Alaska or even with the Alaska chapter, said it's time to revisit the widely accepted principle in the United States and Canada that game is a public resource. Peay described that egalitarian doctrine, found in Alaska's state constitution and laws throughout the West, as "socialism."

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/03/03/2350508/private-hunting-rights-weighed.html#storylink=cpy

Wow.

 

[Battleborn]

I am speachless at the moment

 

[Topgun 30-06]

The more I read about this guy Peay and his concepts, the madder I get!!!

 

[MNHunter]

Peay, who stressed that the Utah chapter isn't trying to push its view in Alaska or even with the Alaska chapter, said it's time to revisit the widely accepted principle in the United States and Canada that game is a public resource.

I think I just threw up in my mouth

 

[Big Fin]

Wow, I knew the guy and his group held some views way out there in the weeds, but I never thought he would put it in print like that.

Let me guess, when cornered on the idea, he will spin it as something else.

That guy and his stupid ideas, need to be put out there in the bigger national eye of hunting to show what kind of stuff they are smoking.

 

[sreekers]

Fin, any chance that your show could do one show on strictly which organizations are solid ones to support? Show breakdowns of money, how they actually support the animals, etc? Don't go the negative route, but just really put some good light on the good ones?

 

[Jwill]

This is the part that stuck out to me...

Byron Bateman, president of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife in South Weber, Utah, said in a telephone interview that landowner permits in his state have "increased the opportunity for the ordinary citizen to be able to hunt some of these private lands that they would not have been able to afford."

He described Utah's hunting and landowner programs as an example for other states to follow.

"Utah has been a model as to we how we manage all of our wildlife in the West. We've increased a lot of different populations," he said.

Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, along with the like-minded Mule Deer Foundation, hosts the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo in Salt Lake City, where special permits from around the West are auctioned. Among the hundreds auctioned over the weekend of Feb. 9-12 were about a dozen private landowner permits from Utah.

Bateman said those permits sold in the range of $9,000 to $18,500 each. Another indication of the value of permits appeared on Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife's 2010 nonprofit tax returns, the most recent available. The returns show the organization raised $2.4 million from selling permits, though it didn't break down how much of those were landowner permits. It did report how much it spent buying landowner permits: $563,000.

The returns show Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife spent $1.1 million on conventions and conferences -- nearly as much as the $1.4 million it spent on big-game habitat improvements, conservation, moving wildlife and studies.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/03/03/2350508/private-hunting-rights-weighed.html#storylink=cpy

Obviously short on data here, but just based on what's in the article, SFW bought 12 tags for $563,000, that's about $46,917 per tag, then they sold them for a max of $18,500. A difference of $341,000. I read that as big money in the pockets of these landowners, a big discount for the "ordinary" folks that buy tags for thousands of dollars, paid for by average sportsmen being duped into thinking this is for habitat and conservation...

 

[Battleborn]

Peay, who stressed that the Utah chapter isn't trying to push its view in Alaska or even with the Alaska chapter, said it's time to revisit the widely accepted principle in the United States and Canada that game is a public resource. Peay described that egalitarian doctrine, found in Alaska's state constitution and laws throughout the West, as "socialism."

After thinking about the above quoted statement a little, while doing some yard work in the fresh air, it didn’t take me long to realize that this is not some surprisingly grandiose statement by Mr. Peay. In fact, this is just a statement that mirrors what he and his associates actions have already told us. He is backing his actions with words, and vice versa. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, eventually it’s going to talk like a duck.

Time for Mr. Peay and his associates to take their ball and go home.

 

[Big Fin]

Fin, any chance that your show could do one show on strictly which organizations are solid ones to support? Show breakdowns of money, how they actually support the animals, etc? Don't go the negative route, but just really put some good light on the good ones?

If I did it, it would be the good and the bad. No sense in holding anything back.

But, given sponsors pay us to integrate and demonstrate their products in the most compelling hunts we can find, I suspect they would ask me to not do an episode based solely on that.

Given the cost to do even one episode, it is hard to justify that. But, I will continue to beat the drum in magazine interviews, web sites, personal appearances, etc. I am very concerned about the direction this crap is taking hunting and will continue to speak out, so long as I have a platform to do so.

 

[trevore]

Fin:

Maybe you could put a sticky on a thread, so all the SWF crap can be kept to a single thread locked to the top of the main page. So it's front and center every time someone goes to the forum??

 

[Big Fin]

These statements by Peay has created some serious debate by many in the hunting world, who had previously not paid much attention to the issues.

Evidently their efforts to keep the wolves out of state control failed and have caused a cash cruch, so now the topic is to solve the socialism and welfare problems in our society.

Am I the only one who finds irony in a guy who rants about socialism, but his organization prospers due to their parasitic relationship of funneling public assets to their coffers?

For some, hypocrisy has no bounds.