One of the things I've liked about these meetings is its a chance to meet all the wardens and biologists at one shot...Wardens seem to come and go around here fast....

I really like the Block Management program because it is a way of allowing open hunting- altho I still control who and when- and get paid for it....$10 per hunter day and the state exempts you from liability and covers any damages incurred..  Not big money, but helps pay the taxes....And I've always allowed hunting anyway- the alternative is to lease out to an outfitter or private hunter- which would make much more money- but then many of locals and friends would not be able to hunt...

I haven't seen the individual numbers for my place yet- but countywide the hunter count ran 62% residents and 38% non-resident.......

One of the contributing factors to the large increase of game besides the easy winter was a lower amount of hunters- attributed to the high gas prices....

LB- So much of our grazing land- and especially sagehen habitat is Federal (BLM) or State owned lease land- so they can do about whatever they please...Our local grazing districts have been working with the biologists and been getting pretty fair results- altho when they first came in they acted like true tree huggers-- everything was the ranchers fault...But after they got out and actually saw it wasn't, things have been going better.......