The issue would be that it’s a direct competitor with our block management program. To many landowners it will probably appear to be a much better option so it will be like high schoolers(land trust) vis grade schoolers(bm). That’s not good for the average Montana hunter and access to quality hunting land.
Hopefully it provides momentum to make the BM program better. If landowners think LT is a better avenue than BM then you need to evolve or get left behind.
It works just like vrbo or anything like that where a person books through Landtrust, Landtrust takes their cut and then sends payment to the leasee. Obviously people can cancel dates and so forth but their still is a cancelation fee and I'm not sure what portion of that goes to the leasee, with vrbo its not much.
Every landowner requesting damage compensation to the Wyo G&F Commission I have ever heard has been immediately asked if they offer access to the public through AccessYes. If the answer is no, almost to a person, the reasoning the landowner has is that they like to have greater control over who hunts, where they hunt and how they hunt than the AccessYes program provides. Perhaps these State run private land access systems could have a user reviewing system like LT has or a registration and signup system like LT has? If the reasoning for the landowner isn't entirely about money but ease of use or greater oversite to then adopt management and administration systems similar to what LT uses.
Truth. Western states limit tags and charge high $$ for NonResidents because as citizens of those states which own the wildlife; whether it be on public or private land; we can!! Some of that windfall of $$ gets poured into Access Programs to gain access to private lands. Thank you NonResidents!
And you need to get a real job so you have work to do during the day as opposed to fighting with people on social media on the taxpayers clock. That's a waste for everyone involved.
Some data at the end of this article indicate where the money comes from. Appears less than half is from license dollars.
Based on that article, a lot of the block management payments actually come from License Dollars with the remaining being leveraged P-R funds. Montana hunters are paying for 6.07M dollars for access on block management properties with an additional 1.4M boost in P-R funds. If someone had a number for the number of hunters that bought a Montana license, you could get a rough cost/hunter. I'm just curious what is really being spent is all to compare to say a person spending $1000 for a long weekend hunt using Landtrust.
Wouldn’t you need to know the number of hunter days on block management and than you could compare cost per day per hunter? I don’t suppose fwp has that data.
I’m pretty certain that they are paid for the days of usage booked.
No, what I'm really wanting to know is what is the level of "welfare" that the common is spending for the benefit of the few. Or at least I'm guessing its "few". I'm guessing that a large portion of hunter days are spent on NF, BLM, State or private with a small percentage of hunter days occurring on a private property open to block management.
I’d say my time is pretty split between public and bm but it seems I spend more time hunting with other people trying to get them game than myself these days
Here is some older data.
