| Title: | The Hunting Notesfile |
| Notice: | Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270 |
| Moderator: | SALEM::PAPPALARDO |
| Created: | Wed Sep 02 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1561 |
| Total number of notes: | 17784 |
My wife was talking with Dave Williams, supervisor of the High Ridge
game managment area, on rt140 in Gardner, Mass. My wife does volunteer
work there and so she knows Dave and the others that work for the
Fish and Game Department. I asked her to ask Dave about the pheasant
stocking for this fall, because with the Mass. budget mess we have,
I'm worried about the up comming fall hunting season going to hell.
Well my worries, have come true. He said that High Ridge, and Birch
Hill managment areas are being phased out of the stocking program.
Hubardston and Bare will remain, but the departments budget is being
cut so badly, that they may have layoffs, resulting in less stocking.
It cost money to stock pheasants, as you all know. With Dukakis
taking the money form the Fish and Game department to balance his overspent
budget, you can expect a lousy stocking program this fall.
In other budget cuts, we talked to Dave about motor boat violations,
on the lake I live on. He said that the departments budget was reduced
so that, the officer in charge of boating law enforcement Mariam
Larson is limited to traveling 30 miles per day. That means from
her office to my lake is 30 miles one way, which means she would
have to sleep there and travel back the next day. What erks me is
I just renewed my boat registration, and the fee went from $10.00
to $20.00. This money is not used for the Department of Recreational
Vehicles use, but its put into other Dukakis programs that have
blown the budget.
I guess I,m going to train my dog towards grouse hunting, it looks
more promissing.
Jim
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| 187.1 | Yeah that's it. | BTO::REMILLARD_K | Mon Aug 01 1988 15:28 | 6 | |
Sounds like priorities in Mass. are making the Duke look good at
the expense of everything. Hey I have an idea, with a record like
that, let's....make him president or something. :^(
Kevin
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| 187.2 | FED-UP | NEBVAX::PAPPALARDO | CLEVER PHARSE. | Mon Aug 01 1988 16:03 | 27 |
Here We go Again ! Seems the State always screws the F&G Dept. We
the Sportsmen Pay for Pheasant Stamps which is suppose to be for
the raising and stocking of birds. Not to pay for some unrelated
program. I'm surprised this has'nt been brought up and fought by
You MASS people, Or maybe you are but it seems to be hush,hush.
In New Hampshire, in 1959 the sate took 12 million from our F&G
and put the money into High-Ways, we have NEVER recovered.
And who pays: WE DO!
And who SUFFERS: WE DO, THE GAME DOES!
I can't for the life of me understand how this can happen with-out
a legal battle. The money is from hunters buying stamps. How the
Hell can they use that money. Don't tell me the state gives a certain
amount of cash for F&G because I don;t belive it ! The money is
from US the Sportsman and maybe from the FEDS too, but that to is
mostly from US or sportsman organizations.
Fed- Up
Rick.....
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| 187.3 | We don't have one...yet | DELNI::G_FISHER | Mon Aug 01 1988 17:50 | 11 | |
re: .2
I think you may be mixing 2 states up. The author of note .0 was
referring to Mass. You must be referring to New Hampshire. Mass.
does not have a stamp to hunt pheasant, although if all this is
true...there may be more calls for one here.
We discussed a stamp some where here in this notes file awhile ago...I
think.
Guy
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| 187.4 | Re: .3 | NEBVAX::PAPPALARDO | CLEVER PHARSE. | Mon Aug 01 1988 18:33 | 31 |
I thought Mass had a stamp. Maybe not. But it still does not justify
the state sticking there fingers in the candy jar where it does
not belong. Isn't true all funds that go to run the MASS. F&G comes
from the sale of hunting and fishing lic. State Duck stamps, excise
tax on hunting and fishing equipment and some federal funds from
the Robertson- Pittman act.
And if all these funds are pooled together from all of the above,then
how do we know if they are for example scimming from sales of
STATE,Duck Stamps or any of the others.
I don't want to start a long debate but, Why, Why always the sportsman.
You would think this would be a common-sence area. "Hands Off of
F&G funds period.
The dept is always running in the red, as far as wardens go there
is plainly not enough to enforce the game laws. You read and hear
of the storys each fall that come from that state,
poaching,trespassing, shooting on paved roads,from cars, I'm not
saying other states don't have there problems but MASS can not afford
to lose one cent that we law going and good ethic hunters put in
every year to keep the slob hunter in line as well as healthy game
herd or flock. The cost of a lic. seems to go up and up and WE pay,
why? because all of us that hunt say "Well the price has gone up
again, but its for a good cause. Now when there is a price increase
what are we to think that we are paying for some roads or welfare
crap or whatever the unrelated expence.
Rick.
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| 187.5 | Self Supportive! | BIGALO::MAHANEY_MIKE | Tue Aug 02 1988 09:11 | 2 | |
In Maine the F&G is the only SELF supportive State agency with
no funds taken from or GIVEN to.
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