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[kidoggy]

Idaho Fish & Game to propose Price Lock in 2017
By Mike Demick, Conservation Information Supervisor
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 2:50 PM MST

By Virgil Moore, Director Idaho Fish and Game

Idaho’s hunters, anglers and trappers expect professional management of Idaho’s wildlife resources including our fisheries. As a sportsman, you know that scientific management is key to providing quality hunting and fishing for you and for future generations. Idaho Fish and Game is proud to be supported by sportsmen and women. Your license dollars are critical both to daily wildlife management, and in the legacy of wildlife conservation that started in Idaho over 75 years ago.

It has been over 12 years since resident fees were last increased. During that time, Fish and Game’s operational costs have increased over 22 percent due to inflation. The level of services Fish and Game provides and our capacity to manage are both decreasing because of increased costs. As a result, we are stocking fewer trout and conducting fewer game and fish population surveys.

Idaho Fish and Game receives no general tax revenue. Because we are funded by your license dollars, the usual solution to keeping up with inflation is to either cut programs or increase fees. We believe that most hunters and anglers want us to maintain the level of services and professional management we have been providing. To do that, Fish and Game needs additional revenue. But instead of simply proposing to increase fees, Fish and Game has developed a new approach to try to maintain programs and keep up with inflation. We call it the Fish and Game Price Lock.

Most Idahoans hunt and fish. Many do so every year – providing consistent revenue to fund the necessary management programs Fish and Game implements on your behalf. However, a larger percentage of Idaho’s hunters and anglers don’t buy licenses every year.

When the Idaho Legislature convenes next month, Fish and Game will propose raising the price of most resident licenses, tags and permits between $1 and $6 starting in 2018. A fee increase must be approved by lawmakers and signed into law by the governor. However, under the Price Lock proposal, hunters, anglers and trappers can exempt themselves from the fee increase and “lock in” at the current price for all licenses, tags and permits simply by purchasing an annual license in 2017, and each year thereafter. Idahoans who hunt and fish every year would continue to pay the current fees, not the increased fees.

We believe the Fish and Game Price Lock will encourage enough of the intermittent hunters and anglers to buy a license every year and will generate the revenue needed to keep up with inflation and help us provide quality hunting and fishing in Idaho every year, whether they use their license or not.

I invite you to learn more about the Price Lock proposal by visiting the Idaho Fish and Game website at: https://idfg.idaho.gov/about/price-lock

Thank you for supporting Idaho Fish and Game and wildlife conservation in Idaho and I wish you great hunting, fishing and trapping in 2017.
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[Hilltop]

Pretty cool idea.

 

[87TT]

I like it! Since I don't plan on missing a year 'till I die!

 

[bdan68]

Does anyone know if non-resident fees are going up too?

 

[kidoggy]

Does anyone know if non-resident fees are going up too?

I don't think they announced that yet,this article only mentions resident, so, I am not 100% sure but I would be willing to bet they will. all tags an permits also.

the link they gave also said price lock would be for three years and then they would reevaluate and possibly make changes after that. so they basically are saying, even if you do keep buying licenses , chances are good the price lock ain't gonna last.
it might but it might not.

 

[kidoggy]

I find this kind of comical that they come out with this the same time they came up with price locks.lol. adding a new fee is not a price lock .just gives em ability to leave licenses the same while making it easier to get future price in creases through other means. I can see in the future where they will raise tags one year, license the next and then this new fee the next year,. and round an round the increases will go.lol.it don't take a rocket scientist to understand the five dollars will soon be ten, then 20 an so on an so on.
I suppose I don't really care about another 5 bucks but to be honest ,I also don't care about the landowners being reimbursed for herd damage.
nothing new , it's all about the benjamins.

can't say I really care what they do. just want folks to see em do it.


Idaho Fish and Game Commission to Create a New Fee Proposal to Manage Big Game Depredation Impacts and Improve Hunting and Fishing Access
By Mike Keckler, Bureau Chief, Communications
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 4:04 PM MST
Commission directs Fish and Game to develop a new fee proposal for big game depredation and fishing and hunting access

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission today directed Fish and Game staff to develop a proposed bill for consideration by the Idaho Legislature that would create a new $5 charge to purchase an Adult Resident annual hunting, fishing or trapping license.

Revenue from the proposed fee would be used for three purposes:

Provide additional money to compensate landowners for depredation damages
Create more resources for preventing big game depredations
Increase funding for more hunting and fishing access

The proposed fee would generate an estimated $2 million annually. Here’s how the funds would be utilized:

$500,000 more funding to compensate for crop damages caused by wildlife up to $1.5 million annually based on available cash balance
$500,000 more funding to prevent crop damage from big game herds
$1 million to improve access to private land from willing landowners for hunting and fishing.

Fish and Game’s depredation compensation law has been in effect for nearly 30 years. The new fee not only improves Fish and Game’s ability to compensate for, and prevent damages, it also helps the agency provide more and better hunting and fishing opportunity across the state.

The Fish and Game Commission recognizes that managing for abundant big game herds comes with responsibility to address impacts those herds cause to privately owned farms and ranches.

More information about the proposed new fee is posted on the Fish and Game website at https://idfg.idaho.gov/new-fee-proposal

The proposed new fee would be paid prior to purchasing an annual license and does not change Fish and Game’s Price Lock Revenue proposal currently under consideration. More information about Price Lock is posted on the Fish and Game website: https://idfg.idaho.gov/pricelock
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[nv-hunter]

I have a couple questions about the $5 damage fee .
Does Idaho allow the land owner to sell damage control tags?
Are those tags good for entire unit or deeded land only?
To get tags or compensation do land owners have to meet damage mitigation efforts?
Allow access to public in some form before compensation?

These are ways to take the sting out of the fee and i personally would be ok if some limits were added like only good on land owners deeded property and must allow walk in hunting to public even if limted numbers or youth only.
Just my 2 cents

And if price lock goes for non residents too ill buy a license every year

 

[kidoggy]

I have a couple questions about the $5 damage fee .
Does Idaho allow the land owner to sell damage control tags?
Are those tags good for entire unit or deeded land only?
To get tags or compensation do land owners have to meet damage mitigation efforts?
Allow access to public in some form before compensation?

These are ways to take the sting out of the fee and i personally would be ok if some limits were added like only good on land owners deeded property and must allow walk in hunting to public even if limted numbers or youth only.
Just my 2 cents

And if price lock goes for non residents too ill buy a license every year

I don't know if they have to allow some hunting or not. that's a good question. I do know of a couple particular ones around here that, absolutely will not allow hunting.period. not even for their hired help. I know this because I know the help. yet they still think they are entitled to get money.
I would rather landowners of this type to go bankrupt and be forced to work in fast food then see them get a single penny of my money.
there are also many that are actually pretty good allowing access if that money went to only those, I could get behind it.

it seems,those that won't allow hunters tin to help manage the herds , are always the first looking for handouts though.those two I refered to above think they are entitled to have f&g build a fence and maintain it, around their property. lol. both of these owners are also the type that try to kick people off if they even get close to property line ,not just for being on it.
I always get a laugh when I hear the story of one who knows better ,telling them to pound sand, standing their ground and getting the law to back them up. these clowns are real gruff and try to be intimidating but if you stand your ground they know they are in the wrong and they don't wish to get law involved.

 

[nv-hunter]

Work to pass the bill so it benefits sportsmen. Access and landowner tag restrictions would be a great deal for sportsmen. Habitat improvement, youth opportunity so many things could start with this bill and if sportsman support it and guide it better then dealing with some government person forcing it on us with no benefit to us.
.

 

[andrew12gauge]

Landowner tags as of right now are good for the whole unit but not able to be sold, also I believe they still are not guaranteed but that may have changed in the last couple of years. It used to be a draw for just a very small percentage of controlled hunt tags in a given unit for the LAP draw


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