Commission Meeting

[Coues79]

If you happen to have some time, here is the live feed to watch the commission meeting today. I checked in at about 10 AM and there were 19 of us hunters using this thread of technology to be part of the meeting. Seems rather bleak when we have 10's of thousands wanting to hunt every year. Anyways, here is the link.

 

http://www.azgfd.gov/inside_azgfd/CommissionCam.shtml

[CouesWhitetail]

Great, glad to see they are doing a live feed instead of the way they started doing it by making people go to a regional office to watch it.

 

Amanda

[Coues79]

Yes Amanda, I agree that its great. It shows that the AZGFD is willing to do their part to let the people and hunters know what is going on. I liked being able to watch and hear what was going on.

 

The draw director gave some pretty interesting information relating to the amounts of hits the website and phone system recieved the particular weekend the results came out. It was crazy. Something like 2.2 hits per second for a few hours, then shot up to 3+ per second later on.

 

He also mentioned this was the first time the draw processing and results have been handled internally. Could be a reason why they took so long to come up. I personally thought that once they came up, the time to find out was relatively short this time. The bandwidth was sufficient to handle the amount of traffic coming in and I had the results come up rather quickly.

 

Another note that I had always wondered about, I guess they have 24 landlines that handle the results once they come up on the phone system. With the amount of lines available, it is no wonder that so many folks had troubles for days on end obtaining results when the Mid-Winter draw results were posted.

[GameHauler]

I also agree that is a great Idea.

I was looking on the link and the home page

for a copy of the meeting so I could watch it

but could not find it.

Do they plan to make them available to watch

after the meeting?