I am one of the new guys, or lurkers as we are called, and I have what I hope is an un-bias (never hunted out of my home state for waterfowl) observation and opinion on the hole NR issue.
It seems to me, by what I read here and other places on the net and in print, that the hole issue is access for residents. If I am not right please correct me.
Well, as I see it, there are 2 problems to the access issue. One: outfitters and guides, and non residents leasing up all the land so there is less access to the average residents hunter. Two: NR's then using the guides as there access to all the prime hunting spots.
To regulate the NR's lic. number to me is compairing it to the preditor issue. Lets just try to regulate what the preditor feeds on and then they will move on or just go away!
Go to the heart of the issue. Regulate the leasers, not the leasees. If the guides are the problem then your state needs to enact regulations on guides and outfitters, (in my comairison the preditor), not the NR's (the food source).
Thanks for the oportunity to express my opinion!
It seems to me, by what I read here and other places on the net and in print, that the hole issue is access for residents. If I am not right please correct me.
Well, as I see it, there are 2 problems to the access issue. One: outfitters and guides, and non residents leasing up all the land so there is less access to the average residents hunter. Two: NR's then using the guides as there access to all the prime hunting spots.
To regulate the NR's lic. number to me is compairing it to the preditor issue. Lets just try to regulate what the preditor feeds on and then they will move on or just go away!
Go to the heart of the issue. Regulate the leasers, not the leasees. If the guides are the problem then your state needs to enact regulations on guides and outfitters, (in my comairison the preditor), not the NR's (the food source).
Thanks for the oportunity to express my opinion!