PGC needs money
03-01-2005, 08:43 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Lancaster pa
Posts: 3,015
RE: PGC needs money
I'm not sure if that's quite how it works. I know I for one hardly see a warden during the entire hunting season and I hunt all over the state. Just because there are fewer hunters doesn't mean the state shrunk. They still have just as much area to cover regardless of wether they see 15 hunters per square mile or 2.
03-01-2005, 09:26 AM
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern PA USA
Posts: 83
RE: PGC needs money
Yes they do need money but the deer population hardly seems to be related to the number of lawbreakers (though some inverse relationship may exist 
) or even our need for wildlife biologists.
Might be nice if the Legislature followed up on the recent report from the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee that showed with or withour a merger, outside funding would be needed.
) or even our need for wildlife biologists.Might be nice if the Legislature followed up on the recent report from the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee that showed with or withour a merger, outside funding would be needed.
03-01-2005, 09:43 AM
#5
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location:
Posts: 205
RE: PGC needs money
I and many fellow sportsmen/women of this state contacted our legislators and let it be known we would not support a single penny of increase till the PGC cut anterless permits where they needed to be cut , AND I AM PROUD THAT I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!
03-01-2005, 09:47 AM
#6
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location:
Posts: 576
RE: PGC needs money
First off, the cost of a license is dirt cheap compared to value. Heck, for a case or so of beer (depending on what your taste is) you can get a hunting license.
Now as far as seeing that increase, it will come but not quite yet.
Now as far as seeing that increase, it will come but not quite yet.
Commission executives hoped to get a much-needed license fee increase through the General Assembly this year. But with so many unhappy deer hunters voicing displeasure to local legislators, any chance of a license hike has evaporated.
Commission officials were told as much earlier this month by Rep. Bruce Smith (R-York). As chairman of the House Game and Fisheries Committee, Smith has the power to control this issue. Without his support, any license increase legislation would never make it out of his committee to the House floor.
Smith told the commission it wouldn't be appropriate to pursue a license increase until officials figure out what's going on with the deer management program.
Commission officials were told as much earlier this month by Rep. Bruce Smith (R-York). As chairman of the House Game and Fisheries Committee, Smith has the power to control this issue. Without his support, any license increase legislation would never make it out of his committee to the House floor.
Smith told the commission it wouldn't be appropriate to pursue a license increase until officials figure out what's going on with the deer management program.
03-01-2005, 09:53 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pa.
Posts: 554
RE: PGC needs money
If the PGC would go after these hunters that don't send their deer harvest report cards in, They say they know who they are they could make a lot of money from the fines. They say half the hunters don't send them in.
03-01-2005, 10:10 AM
#8
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location:
Posts: 205
RE: PGC needs money
lost horn, that should show you how the PGC lies,if they really knew whom to fine they would. Also these same counts at the deer processors that they claim to make are the same exact ones they use for reporting deer takes......hmmmmm smells fishy to me!
03-01-2005, 10:28 AM
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pa.
Posts: 554
RE: PGC needs money
lost horn, that should show you how the PGC lies,if they really knew whom to fine they would. Also these same counts at the deer processors that they claim to make are the same exact ones they use for reporting deer takes......hmmmmm smells fishy to me!