DouglasR
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is anyone else living with you influenceders guilt?
I just don’t want to be part of the problem.
I just don’t want to be part of the problem.
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What wins for hunting and wildlife have we seen?None of the other players are going away if and when Randy decides to hang up the show. Are your efforts going to be sufficient to ensure that wins for wildlife are going to continue? Are all the critics of social media influencers going advance hunters interests more effectively?
Go back and read my previous posts.What wins for hunting and wildlife have we seen?
That settles it! If you emailed Matt R. that succinct review he could just close shop and quit selling t-shirts…He is promoting a simplistic (and unattainable) solution to solve complex issues. If he could attain his desired goals it wouldn’t achieve the hoped for results.
It is my impression that he is attempting to promote his personal aesthetic as the metric by which all “appropriate” hunting should be measured.
Social media is a communication tool. What the tool is used for and how it is used is what determines whether the benefits outweigh the negative impacts of the tool.
There is no doubt that there are some negative impacts to hunting because of social media’s influence. However, at the end of the day it is the responsibility of managing agencies and us as hunters holding them accountable to ensure that proper management policies are in place to protect our resources.
What wins for hunting and wildlife have we seen?
Good example I figured there had to be at least one.I asked you about the Kentucky elk restoration.
This makes it even more infuriating that a lot of these influencer types are willing to spill the beans for nothing more than an ego boost. At least money I can understand, we all need money.I would bet $20 that when Randy read this comment he snorted with laughter because he has essentially run his entire production platform without profit.
100% and this is why I’m having an identity crisis as a hunter/outdoorsman.Technology is what's to blame not the users of the technology. People like randy have been around for a long time. Heck Jackie Bushman started buckmasters in the 1980s.
This crazy trailhead activity increase aligns pretty neatly with the invention of OnX in 2009. I don't think this is the sole cause of the overcrowding but it's a worthy entity to start your blaming with.
The timid hunter that would never go into the backcountry or venture from his/her go to spots because of the fear of the unknown no longer has those fears with their trusty smart phone and GPS in their pockets because of tools like OnX and GoHunt.
I know he was working on getting an account set up. [email protected] if you would like to talk with him.okay i'm nearly an hour and a half into this podcast.
i'm on record on this forum as not entirely disagreeing with matt. big problems with the monetization of hunting, no doubt. big big problems. big problems with public land hunters losing places to hunt.
i hope matt grabs an account and chimes in here. reason being is what i just can't agree with is that is a bigger problem than the raw loss of wildlife on this continent, the raw loss of habitat, the prevalence of disease, etc.
game agencies can easily control the crowding if we continue to pressure them to do so. and that crowd control is the trend because otc opportunities are ever so slowly turning into a thing of the past. plus, how does the crowding issue get reconciled with the fact that many non otc units in many states over years have remained static on or have generally decreased numbers of tags over the decades? so is crowding actually the issue? the real issue there is odds of getting a tag.
That's a simple fix & I'm all for it...but they ain't gonna do it and everyone here knows it.I believe the western states receive the bulk of their F&G funding through NR license sales, will have to find a way to fill that funding hole if that's true.