Can't wait to hear the protests from BHA about energy leases on public land.
Oh, that's right, they support public land development in this case
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2022/04/21/blm-issues-first-solar/
Didn't realize we were only allowed to comment on issues pertaining to the state we reside in.
If that's the rule, perhaps you should have noticed the article was a Utah antler sale. I'll assume, not in your state.
To be honest. I'm much more concerned that there has become such a big market for horns, period, so that's probably some of my hesitation.
Seems like we are bumping up against the market hunting/trapping model that nearly destroyed hunting to start with.
There is a lot of entrenched, Utah power and money, that DOES NOT like Lee.
McMullin was financed by them for Pres, and I'm sure for Senate.
Problem is, neither of Lee primary challengers will seperate themselves from him on land policy. I've gotten multi paragraph word salad replies from...
"My" soft judges, ain't just a Utah problem.
Not sure what "libs" has to do with anything.
I "feel" like poaching sentences are weak. Mainly because they are. Generally they include hunting bans. Bans which to law abiding folks might matter. To poachers, they didn't care about hunting laws...
Lete know when you get that reduced tax burden.
Reality is, judges are extremely light in charging.
A deer in Utah, is worth up to $325,000.
Yet rarely do fines even compensate us.
If you don't think there is a large poaching black market, you need to wake up.
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/dwr-to-auction-forfeited-antlers-furs?_amp=true
I struggle with this. As a libertarian I don't like financial incentives for gov seizures.
As a hunter, I feel like the DWR is helping to both set a market price, and supply that market. Which, helps...
I proposed an idea to Rob Bishop once.
Why not make a trade system?
Developers/O&G can trade acre for acre, useless BLM/School Trust land, for acres the public would benefit from(hunting, rec, etc).
He was getting back to me on that., Apparently via stagecoach or messenger pigeon
The leadership, coincidentally I'm sure in Utah, are all developers, short of Cox.
Top notch guys too, like Mike Shultz, who took a truckload of PPP money, as his development/construction company enjoyed the building boom.
Utah has no water. They are paying people to rip out grass. Ag just...
The "strategy" of the R, via the great folks like my former congressman Bishop, and my lovely senator Lee, was to starve the public land maintenance budgets to death, forcing closures, then call press conferences to denounce the "libs" in these agencies for shutting access.
Mike Lee, gave a...
Um.
What if. Hunters spearheaded these no lead campaigns? Yup theirs plenty of what about ism to be had. But that doesn't mean lead is a great idea
Lead ain't real great for the brain, not good for birds either.
True.
Until Jr figures out dad's passion, means feeding cows in Feb.
Or that he can sell that headache, and never work a day again.
Combined with the assault on easements, and suddenly APR looks a lot better
As a kid my neighbor across the road decided he was going to raise buffalo.
Bull got through the fence, out a Volkswagen bug in a ditch, and smashed a van. Rancher down the road killed it with a 30-30.
That was a fun day as a kid
The OP legitimately as a Utard, didn't understand if their was a "dark hand", conspiracy, or just outsiders coming in, that makes APR controversial.
Doesn't seem like after 240 posts, it much more than the usual, NIMBY/Outsiders concern.
As I sit here on the Wasatch front, watching it go from...
Been 30 years since I was in an LDS church. But I'm pretty sure they don't pass a plate around.
And, the LDS church, has the single biggest CWMU in Utah, 40,000 acres. And it's fully huntable. You can buy tags, or draw them.
Lots of conspiracy theories in Montana I guess