Need a little more thought before you fire this off.
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Originally Posted by chuck
1. Increase draw application fees with a suggestion of $10. This will insure those that feel the need to apply for themselves, their dog, their wife, and their aunt Gertrude just because they can to cover all bases and see what they can draw for will at least think about it first. And maybe they will decide what species they really want to hunt. It will also encourage a bit of research into the tag being applied for..
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This is a serious letter. You saying people apply under their dog's name? What difference does it make if relatives of the person apply? The fellow can't use his aunt gertrudes draw or license. How does this offer anyone any advantage? This line of thinking makes no sense.
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Originally Posted by chuck
2. Increase tag fees for special licence "trophy" animals with a suggestion to start at $150. This will also ensure a second thought on what they want to hunt as well. It will also have me personally staggering draws to stay married and solvent. ..
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Glad you are willing to take yourself out of the line-up to allow those hunters with more cash in their jeans than you to continue to apply for all the draws they want. Make it $1000 per license and get the wait times down even more.
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3. Either a mandatory purchase of the tag successfully drawn for within a certain time frame or a mandatory requirement to leave a CC # at the time of application and the automatic purchase upon successful application..
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Actually think this idea is fine. You get drawn, you get charged.
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Originally Posted by chuck
4. The mandatory reporting of harvest or non harvest and use of your tag. You will have to report within 30 days of the close of your season or will automatically forfeit your ability to apply for any draw or purchase of any tag the following year. If you forget, to bad, and you likely won't do it twice.
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Not sure what this does. If you didn't bother to hunt, you would just say you were unsuccesful. No one wuld be the wiser. The only person this penalizes is the forgetful guy who might be totally honest and have hunted hard. It serves no purpose.
Strikes me that the real issue is your contention that people apply for, and are granted draws, without really being serious about hunting them, with the end result that a lot of draws are left on the table unused. First of all, I'm not sure you have evidence that this is a really wide-spread problem. I wouldn't change a system because "my buddy said he heard that somebody..."
Secondly, if this is a real issue, I would assume that ESRD takes this into account whenn they set draw numbers. A WMU harvest number might assume a 20% non-license purchase rate. IF you built a system to ensure that every draw was followed up with a purchase and hunted, the likely result would be that they would simply lower the draw numbers to compensate.