Ya ok. You're full of shit.
95% of residents (and more specifically your illustrious “task-force”) are more than happy to stick it to us NR’s and have been cheerleading to stick it to us for the last 2 years.
I call a spade a spade. And this is a damn SPADE.
Carry on.
You haven't the first clue.
The task force was the brain child of Ogden Driscoll, a republican legislator from devil's tower. His agenda was to split mule deer and whitetail into 2 tags so his paying customers and outfitter buddy could be assured clients each year.
I know several good people that applied for that task force, some with high profile people letters if recommendation and didn't get positions.
But who did get appointed are half a dozen outfitters, another bunch with ties to outfitters, the director and commission president (huge conflict of interest), and a few that didn't know chit from clay about wildlife and hunting issues.
I can tell you that residents were not happy about the appointments, have been hugely disappointed with the lack of things done to benefit residents, and the way the task force has kicked NRs around with pricing, and changes to the point system.
This task force was simply a wish list place for outfitters present their case for welfare.
The task force also behaved very unprofessionally, shouting down public comments, disregarding important issues, and in at least one case threatened a person who commented with their job. There was also extreme favoritism showed to certain groups, like outfitters and landowners during testimony, while other interests were put on a "timer" during testimony.
Governor Gordon is also to blame as he or his office chose the kangaroo court and did nothing to correct the massive problems with this task force.
From the day they released the members, it was more than blatantly obvious what the agenda was and how it would transpire. There were exactly 2 people on that entire task force that were serious hunters, the rest were there to profit somehow from our resources.
Drawing dead into a made hand, and thankfully some of the more horrific proposals were shot down. Sad that hunters have to battle chit ideas from a wildlife task force, but here we are.
I would suggest taking 5 minutes and commenting on the one question for the November meeting, unless as a NR you want to lose another 10% of your tags to the $1200 pronghorn/deer draw and $2000 elk tags.
Carry on with your "spade"....
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