Link to G&F tag increase proposal

[bowhuntinmaniac]

Below is a link to a section on the Game and Fish Web site that

includes

information on the bill (including a copy of the bill and answers to

some frequently asked questions about it). This will hopefully answer

some of the questions that your members and others in the hunting and

angling community might have.

 

In particular, we want to get the message out that this is a proposal

to

increase the statutory cap within which fees could be raised, not a

proposal to increase fees immediately. Historically, the Game and Fish

Commission has usually raised fees incrementally within the cap over a

number of years. Actual proposed fee increases would need to be

approved

by the commission through the formal rulemaking process and would

involve public input.

 

The link to the information is:

 

www.azgfd.gov/feecap

[WAcoueshunter]

Seems fair to me - any business has got to raise its prices now and then, and if the State requires that a long-term range be adopted, with annual price increases made within the range, then so be it.

 

One question though - is the 10X increase in the cap for nonresident deer and elk tags because the State is thinking of going to a tiered system for trophy deer and elk tags in response to the USO suit? Since I don't apply for mule deer or elk tags, I presume such a system wouldn't affect me. But raising coues tags to $1200 along with Kaibab and Strip tags would be a bad thing for those nonresidents of us who aren't made of money and like to hunt with our resident buddies.

[az4life]

I don't have a problem with out of staters coming in to hunt with friends and family. the problem is the jerks like USO who are out of state guides that think the state of AZ is their own private hunting ground. They want PREFERENCE over residents and that bugs me.

 

If the AZGF needs to have a long term range of prices to work within so be it. Politics politics politics. That is what will lead to the end of the hunting we used to have!