Montana 2025 Legislative Session

[Nameless Range]

My survey conversation with FWP this year….

FWP - Did you hunt deer this year?

Me - Yes

FWP - How many days?

Me - I would say about 5.

FWP - Were you successful?

Me - No

FWP - Thank you

Me - My son got a deer.

FWP - We aren’t calling about him. Thank you.

Me -

Called me before deer hunting was over.

 

[cgasner1]

Called me before deer hunting was over.

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You where probably a disappointment they figured you had harvested already

 

[bigsky2]

To me it was unbelievable the opposition to mandatory reporting. I heard “I don’t want anyone to know where I hunt” to “there’s to much govt in my life, I don’t want more “.

My response was, “how can we
Manage wildlife without data?”, fell on deaf ears.

Even when I said, “let’s amend”. My thought was to amend bill so that info gathered would reflect only the region hunted, and FWP would have to keep district by district info private.

So, a massive education to some legislators is in dire need. FWP wants to think their phone survey is great, we all know it’s not. So in the next year we need to show the need for mandatory harvest requirements.
Cheers.

Pretty frustrating that there was unanimous support for Marler's reporting bill and it was still tabled. It seems like the legislators put more value in Facebook comments than they did the comments of the individuals that showed up to testify.