Pause on Federal Grants - MD25-13

[BuzzH]

States own the wildlife. They should be responsible for the cost associated with that ownership.

Wyoming is, 100%.

 

[Buffs35]

Contact your elected officials and let them know.

1, they have no power to do anything
2, even if they did, they're too busy sucking up to the billionaire class to notice.
3, why would the change anything? Gotta keep that insider trading gravy train rolling.

 

[BuzzH]

And they are VERY clear about that.

ALL THE TIME it is thrown in the NR's faces.

Be honest, were you stamping your tiny feet when you typed that?

 

[Mallardsx2]

Wyoming is, 100%.

Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing project on track for summer 2025 construction | Wyoming Game & Fish Department

CHEYENNE — The Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing project on U.S. Highway 189 in southwest Wyoming is on schedule to begin construction next year. The project is possible thanks to a $24.3 million Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program discretionary grant the Federal Highway Administration awarded to the...

wgfd.wyo.gov

 

[BuzzH]

Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing project on track for summer 2025 construction | Wyoming Game & Fish Department

CHEYENNE — The Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing project on U.S. Highway 189 in southwest Wyoming is on schedule to begin construction next year. The project is possible thanks to a $24.3 million Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program discretionary grant the Federal Highway Administration awarded to the...

wgfd.wyo.gov

Meh, with the 50 million in savings from condoms to Gaza, we should build another one. Plus we could pay down the deficit with the difference of 1.4 million.

How is that not a win-win?

Also, theres more to those crossings than just wildlife. Has the potential to save human lives, vehicles being damaged/totaled, insurance savings potentially, etc.

 

[Treeshark]

Wyoming is, 100%.

That’s not even close to being true, Buzz.

 

[BuzzH]

That’s not even close to being true, Buzz.

The GF is self funded, receives nothing from the general fund. General funding was stripped a long time ago.

 

[WyoCoalMiner]

Americans contacted their elected officials on Nov 5, 2024. One group made far more contact than others and we are now getting what they wanted. It will get worse before it gets better, but the pain is neccasary. Seems like for the last 30+ years we are always one election away from getting our out of control spending under control. No matter who was elected, nothing ever changed, the problem only got worse. I for one am happy to live with the pain. I am more confident today than I have ever been in the last 30 years that real change is possible.

Stop spending money we don't have on projects we don't support, then we can talk about increasing our taxes. Seems intuitively simple to me.

 

[Treeshark]

The GF is self funded.

Wyoming does not fully fund the management of it’s wildlife. That is a ridiculous statement.

 

[BuzzH]

Wyoming does not fully fund the management of it’s wildlife. That is a ridiculous statement.

What part of the GF is self funded is so hard for you to understand. Do you need to review the pie chart?

 

[Mallardsx2]

This one?

 

[Treeshark]

What part of the GF is self funded is so hard for you to understand. Do you need to review the pie chart?

Does Wyoming receive USFW federal grant money to manage wildlife?

 

[BuzzH]

This one?

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No, the one with all revenue.

 

[Gellar]

Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing project on track for summer 2025 construction | Wyoming Game & Fish Department

CHEYENNE — The Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing project on U.S. Highway 189 in southwest Wyoming is on schedule to begin construction next year. The project is possible thanks to a $24.3 million Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program discretionary grant the Federal Highway Administration awarded to the...

wgfd.wyo.gov

you do realize that When you go to the gas station you pay 18.4 cents per gallon excise to the federal government to fund programs like this. Plus many states add on their own taxes. You’d be hard pressed to find a public road, of any kind, whether it’s a interstate, a federal, a state, county, or even city street that doesn’t have funding from the federal highway administration.

 

[BuzzH]

Does Wyoming receive USFW federal grant money to manage wildlife?

The WYGF has spent over 50 million in license dollars to manage federally controlled grizzly bears. When are we going to be reimbursed for that?

Wyoming receives PR/DJ funding from self imposed taxes on hunting and fishing equipment, yes. So do all 50 states and I believe even U.S. Territories.

 

[Gulf of America]

Long time recipient of CRP payments here, but I'll be the first to tell you it is pretty darned stupid. The government is basically paying me (with money they don't have) to grow weeds in former crop fields and I'm glad to take the $$ as I wanted this ground for wildlife habitat anyway. So I get my habitat and an annual check. These programs are not used much by any of the really big time farmers who have and continue to wreck the most habitat so it's not making a huge impact anyway. Most of the CRP recipients are small time landowners like myself that don't depend on farming as sole source of income.

I don't think it would be crazy to shut off a lot of the CRP programs and instead allow land owners to hold those properties that remain in habitat "property tax free". Guys like me are going to keep doing this stuff anyway, the CRP checks have just been a bonus.

I for one would way rather the federal government pay for that wildlife habitat to remain "unproductive" (and able to ramp up production in times of national need, which is the purpose of the program) than strip the counties that are already starving for funds from the property tax revenue for that land.

 

[BuzzH]

Americans contacted their elected officials on Nov 5, 2024. One group made far more contact than others and we are now getting what they wanted. It will get worse before it gets better, but the pain is neccasary. Seems like for the last 30+ years we are always one election away from getting our out of control spending under control. No matter who was elected, nothing ever changed, the problem only got worse. I for one am happy to live with the pain. I am more confident today than I have ever been in the last 30 years that real change is possible.

Stop spending money we don't have on projects we don't support, then we can talk about increasing our taxes. Seems intuitively simple to me.

We'll see what the deficit does in the next 4 years to gauge "success".

If I were a betting man...and used 16-20 as an indicator, I have a pretty good idea where to place my chips.

Just sayin'.

 

[WyoCoalMiner]

We'll see what the deficit does in the next 4 years to gauge "success".

If I were a betting man....

Yes we will. I am not without my doubts as well, just more optimistic than ever before.

 

[BuzzH]

Yes we will. I am not without my doubts as well, just more optimistic than ever before.

Do you think wanting to do away with the debt ceiling is a good sign or a bad sign for getting spending under control?

I personally don't think that's a good sign for those beating the drum to control spending. That's almost like tossing in the towel, IMO.

 

[Treeshark]

The WYGF has spent over 50 million in license dollars to manage federally controlled grizzly bears. When are we going to be reimbursed for that?

$50 mil?

That would be a nice little start towards a down payment to pay back all of the Federal wildlife grant money Wyoming has received