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  1. Big Fin

    Solar Energy Comments due April 18, 2024

    One of the largest proposals in a long time is open for public comments. It is the proposal to allow large scale solar development in many wildlife-rich areas of the west. The WyoFile folks do a great job of explaining the possible impacts of such in Wyoming. The same can be said for many of...
  2. Big Fin

    FILM act

    Nobody in LEO has time to watch the videos. They're busy with people cooking meth, illegal logging, motorized trail violations, cabin vandalism, fights in campgrounds, squatters living permanently on USFS, and you name it. This stuff gets pushed way down their priority list. The number of LEO...
  3. Big Fin

    FILM act

    It's an interesting discussion, for sure. Compliance right now is so low, it's laughable. If this passed, the Feds would likely get more revenue by much higher compliance. But, maybe I'm being a fool to think it would bring the noncompliant folks into the loop. The Feds would no longer incur...
  4. Big Fin

    Hunters For Access Raffle - 2024

    Many of you have come to learn of Hunters For Access, a group started in Miles City. The idea is to raise money to help Block Management Cooperators and show appreciation for their participation in the program. Below is a flyer of their upcoming raffle. Link to that page on their website is...
  5. Big Fin

    Its a mad mad world!

    Another recent thread that is completely useless for the issues of hunting, conservation, and access. There must be some bored people in world for some of the recent to be worthy of time to discuss on a hunting forum. This one is locked. I'd caution people to start using discretion in their...
  6. Big Fin

    Really, Wyoming?

    Not sure some of you realize how many people of color are on this board, or have family members and hunting friends who are people of color. Some of them have hunted with me (both on and off camera), have been on the podcast, and have been part of our social media posts. Some have contributed a...
  7. Big Fin

    Really, Wyoming?

    I've been on the road most of the winter and I'm on the road most of this month. My tolerance for the childish bullshit is getting really thin, really fast. Get this thread back on track and keep it there.
  8. Big Fin

    Really, Wyoming?

    Let's focus on the issue at hand; the wolf and the idiot who has given a ton of explosives to the groups who want to blow up state-based wildlife wolf management.
  9. Big Fin

    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Reform the EAJA for wildlife

    I am all for accountability and doing things correctly. @Nameless Range gives a good example, a very common example, of how they prevail on non-substantive issues. Not in any meaningful way, rather what most would call "technicalities" in very complicated laws, or in how those laws are applied...
  10. Big Fin

    Really, Wyoming?

    Damn, I go to South Dakota for their Bowhunter's annual meeting, thinking things will be pretty calm this offseason. Logging in this afternoon, I see this thread melting down by the time I land at the airport. I guess I shouldn't make assumptions during the offseason. As for the multitude of...
  11. Big Fin

    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Reform the EAJA for wildlife

    When I was on the RMEF Board, the USFS was the biggest partner for habitat improvement projects and access projects. Suing your biggest project partner didn’t seem like a good idea, and I suspect it will seem like a bad idea today, given it is the USFS whose projects are being litigated by the...
  12. Big Fin

    HTer Fitness Goals '24 Edition

    Thanks. I had no idea I'd get talked into all of this. They asked if I would be OK with filming a few things. Turns out "a few things" is a lot of things. We are almost half way through a nine-week "Over 50 desk jockey" course that they intend to have by late summer. I never imagined a CPA as...
  13. Big Fin

    Let Them Roam - A Bison Yarn

    Superb. Not sure what can top a hunt like that, told in such a splendid manner.
  14. Big Fin

    Fixing social security

    Any time we are talking about government funding, it is in large part driven by the tax policy of our country, which if a Representative Republic reflects the will of its people, then the tax policy adopted by the elected Representatives should reflect the will of the people. In tax policy...
  15. Big Fin

    Fixing social security

    I can't explain if it is good or bad, but I can explain the history in terms of tax policy. In the tax policy debates, the reason is that since the SS benefit limit is capped, there should be some limit on the amount of wages or self-employment income that is taxed for SS. In 2013 we removed...
  16. Big Fin

    Fixing social security

    If we're interested in discussing the topic of the original post, fixing social security, we sure seem to have strayed down a peculiar path to discuss such. Here is how quickly the Social Security Funds will be depleted - https://www.ssa.gov/policy/trust-funds-summary.html And if anyone...
  17. Big Fin

    Let Them Roam - A Bison Yarn

    Impressive. Damn impressive. In so many ways. Having helped a friend field process a cow bison and having help from friends on two bull bison of my own, you did amazing work, all on your own and without the benefit of daylight. Your storytelling skills with words and images should give you an...
  18. Big Fin

    Let Them Roam - A Bison Yarn

    You're doing justice to the landscape with these images. It is a cool place, for sure. Looking forward to more.
  19. Big Fin

    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Reform the EAJA for wildlife

    This is a topic that I've almost had to compartmentalize, given how much it raises my blood pressure. Marcus knows it gets me worked up and he convinced me to sit down and give some thoughts on how the Equal Access to Justice Act is being abused by environmental litigators (drive by litigators...
  20. Big Fin

    FWP Bonus Point Sketchiness

    Having sat on the MT committee that came up with our point system, it was known from the start that it would not accomplish what some were hoping for. It's just simple math for most of the issues. And as much as bonus point systems are inherently flawed, preference point systems are even more...
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