Sailor (06-18-2019), Stretch (06-19-2019), Truth Detector (06-18-2019)
I always look for positive things (at least in my eyes) administrations get behind. This might seem like a very small thing to most here but it is a very important thing to me. Without public land or land open to the public hunting and fishing is reserved for the aristocrats ... just the wealthy. I pray that it is never this way in this country.
This is something Trump supports that I’m happy about...
“President Trump opens 1.4 million acres up to hunters and fishermen...”
https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/blog...-and-fishermen
Sailor (06-18-2019), Stretch (06-19-2019), Truth Detector (06-18-2019)
I want to know more about it before I agree. Will these hunters and fishermen have to buy special permits, and will that money be used to manage the resources? Who is going to oversee the hunting and fishing to make sure that ppl are not taking more than what is permitted? Who's going to pay for those doing the oversight? Is this going to require that roads be built to allow access? If so, how what impact will that have on the area being considered? Will this activity make it unsafe for non-hunters/fishermen to visit these treasures?
The whole idea of a "wildlife refuge" is a large area set aside for -- wait for it -- wildlife. Unless strict rules are in place -- and ENFORCED -- there goes the wildlife. Alaska has a lot of experience with poaching and encroaching on its federally-managed lands. They also have stiff penalties for those who violate the regulations. Will the proposed hunting/fishing on these refuges be similarly regulated and will there be severe penalties for violations?
Cypress (06-18-2019), Guno צְבִי (06-18-2019)
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Cypress (06-18-2019), domer76 (06-18-2019), Guno צְבִי (06-18-2019), ThatOwlWoman (06-18-2019)
cancel2 2022 (06-19-2019), Truth Detector (06-18-2019)
cancel2 2022 (06-19-2019), Darth Omar (06-18-2019), Stretch (06-19-2019), Truth Detector (06-18-2019)
These refuges in question already allow hunting. They are just opening more acreage, extending some seasons and allowing more species to be hunted. The state manges these areas in conjunction with the fish and wildlife service and they do a good job with conservation. Likewise, hunters do a good job of funding their own recreation. Fees from licenses, federal duck stamps, and the revenue from the Pittman-Robertson act are the main drivers, as well as funding through private organizations.
MAGA MAN (06-18-2019), Truth Detector (06-18-2019)
I agree, based on his track record, you got to be suspicious, watch, along with the declaration there will be some hidden loophole that in two years the same land can be open for private development
And you got to laugh thinking that Trump, born in raise in NYC, gives a rat's ass about hunting and fishing, the only time he possibly did either was the last time he mistakenly stepped into a grocery store
Guno צְבִי (06-18-2019), LV426 (06-18-2019), ThatOwlWoman (06-18-2019)
States in general do a decent job of regulating and enforcing hunting/fishing to ensure that greed doesn't remove all the animals/fish from an area. People cannot be trusted to behave responsibly especially if they think that they can get away with something because the game wardens are few and far between. This is, of course, the reason we have these large tracts of land set aside -- so we'll continue to have wildlife.
I don't either, and nobody should.
"To understand any budget, all you need to see are the numbers. And when you look at the Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal for the Department of the Interior, those numbers paint a pretty clear picture. Despite rhetoric about allocating more money for fire suppression and to address the National Park Service’s overwhelming maintenance backlog, the reality is that, if this proposal were to move forward, there would be less cash to go around for virtually everyline item that isn’t directly related to oil and gas extraction.
The good news?The President doesn’t set the federal government’s budget; Congress does. And, according to House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva, “This isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, it’s dead on arrival in Congress, and printing it was a waste of time.”
But, as an indication of the Trump administration’s priorities, the balance sheets in this budget are about as truthful as it gets. The administration is committed to slashing funding for our national parks and public lands. Let’s cut through the bullshit.
The Rhetoric: “One of Interior’s highest priorities remains to address the deferred maintenance backlog on Federal lands," reads the proposed budget. "At the end of 2018, Interior’s backlog was over $16.0 billion, about three quarters of which is in the National Park Service’s (NPS) crumbling roads, bridges, water systems, and facilities.”
The Reality: The total NPS budget would be cut by $494,946,000. This includes cuts to the operations budget of $52 million, a $31-million cut to the National Recreation and Preservation fund, a $64-million cut to the Historic Preservation Fund, a $113-million cut for the construction and major maintenance budget, and a $176-million cut for land acquisition and state assistance programs.
https://www.outsideonline.com/239192...national-parks
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