Comments on: Should the DNR raise hunting license fees? http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/ All Michigan, All the Time Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: home and garden http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-83871 home and garden Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:55:28 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-83871 I like very much. Share more. Thank you.

]]> By: Nick http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47590 Nick Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:42:30 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47590 Why would we even talk about raising prices again when we cant even afford to live. This is the perfect past time to be outdoors and to put food on the table. It is hard enough to purchase equipment to go hunting let alone to purchase the liscence also. This is an outrage to raise prices just because you love to hunt and be outdoors, yeah lets take it away by raising prices some more, do you forget we also feed the homeless with venison!! By the time you pay for the liscence,the equipment, and processing your paying more then meat at a store to buy beef which isnt even natural anymore. Do the world a favor and leave the sportsman alone!

]]> By: Joe Hodack http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47555 Joe Hodack Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:48:15 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47555 Joe Hodack
Michigan is in a tight fix now and this would only make it tighter for families that the wife hunts and now they have children hunting ..costly..you have lost a large number of hunters now and this will drop it even more..but the deer herd will increse even more and more road kills . look on the roads now with all game that peaple do not hunt like they used to …you raise the license and less paying hunters but more poaching. you sit back and look at all the license fees that are paid in.non refundables …where in hell does all this go?????? Remember …we the left hunters can not replace all you have chased away with the fees and you loose us that have hunted for 50 years and a lot of dnr personal will be faceing …no job..But I will hunt the rest of my life even if I choose to go to another state. thank you

]]> By: George http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47098 George Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:38:09 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47098 Recently an admission was made at an NRC meeting that the DNR had been spending D.R.I.P. funding inappropriately on Kirtland’s Warbler Habitat. D.R.I.P. is a 1.50 earmark off of each deer hunting license sold for “Deer Range Improvement Program”. Instead of purchasing lands to improve white tail habitat, or enhancing habitat, hunters have paid for Kirtland’s Warbler Habitat.

There is NO JUSTIFICATION TO RAISE HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSE FEES especially under the current administration that clearly lacks integrity.

DNR put Michigan at risk of losing 25 million dollars+ in Pittman Robertson Funding by diverting DRIP funds. They used the very same excuse to ban equestrians from state lands specifically Pigeon River State Forest. They were caught pants down lying, and even through legislative rules, they to this day circumvent the rules and continue on with their agenda’s.

MONEY WILL NOT TURN THINGS AROUND, it will only embolden them. DNR administration does as it pleases, damn the rules, and when caught says “SO WHAT”? The Attorney General WILL NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, and that guy want to be governor!

DNR is playing shell games with money and always crying broke to the sportsmen to justify the needs for more money. They have harvested billions from raw materials clear cutting, but THAT goes to a special account. Never mind they siphon off and put that money where they want to, face value they deny they have money.

Fires are like hitting the lottery for them. The grayling fires took out a lot of overgrown former warbler habitat, which will now re grow and be suitable for the warbler. As people sell they snatch up the forest. The day will come when that entire area will be closed to tresspass as a warbler preserve…I am sure the wolves will part of the program.

Money will not turn things around. Sportsmen getting off the couch, paying attention and getting involved will make the difference. Dismissal of the current DNR administration is a must. Replacement of them with hunters and anglers is our only hope. MSU is the root of all evil in the sense it’s MSU’s graduates that dont hunt or fish that are hired and make policy based upon education in the institution vs. in the out of doors.

Our Children are being educated/brainwashed to the new way of thinking in the woods, and hunting is not part of that plan. We in the midlife need to get off our collective fanny’s and get involved, or simply put, hunting will be a thing of the past, and once that’s gone, the forests will have established core areas surrounded by buffer zones, all designed for ZERO impact from man to evolve it to pre settlement era. THeir goal is wolves and grizzlies coast to coast, border to border.

The greenies have a plan and it’s coming together nicely, incrementally, step by step. THe more frustrated hunters get, and move on to these canned preserve hunts, the less in the woods, the less they care about hanging on to the heritage. Think about it.

]]> By: Jason JANIS http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47092 Jason JANIS Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:26:24 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-47092 A lot of people on this site really do not understand the whole big picture of having a plan to turn are state in to a quality white tale deer hunting state. Alot of things have to change to get things there, in my opinion raising the cost for hunting tags is a good start,Michigan has the lowest cost on tags in the country.even before the economey took a dump.Ask yourself would you like the chance to hunt more mature deer?I believe thats one of many reasons why they spend hours and days on stand.that why we need to start puting restriction on bucks taking legally.Alot of other states in the midwest have already been doing some of these examples for years and have had great results. If we in michigan want to have better chances to harvest more mature bucks. we have to change this as soon as possiable. Thanks die hard michigan hunter

]]> By: kerrianne http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-46758 kerrianne Wed, 26 May 2010 15:30:11 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-46758 I love animals I hope that know one shold go hunitang any more.

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]]> By: Bentover http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-45175 Bentover Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:04:26 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-45175 I think the powers that be have the general public figured out by now. If I tell you I’m going to double your license fees, you say that’s ridiculous and bitch and moan. Then I say ok I understand, we’ll just raise them a few dollars then. You say ok I can deal with that, that’s not to bad. Guess what moron, who do you think got what they wanted?

]]> By: Bill http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-43821 Bill Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:07:12 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-43821 I think the American animal is the only animal that can be skinned over and over again .
Enough already!

]]> By: robert http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-43820 robert Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:18:46 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-43820 Hunting should be free! Taxes should absolutely not be raised! Not a penny more!

]]> By: Jeanette H. http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-42731 Jeanette H. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:40:28 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-42731 Want to know what’s bull? My husband, son and I paid $4 each for the anterless deer application. We were approved and now have to pay $15 for that license. My husbands buddy just went up and bought one at the counter for $15. We paid $19 because of the $4 application fee. How is this fair? We applied early and so we get penalized? Unbelievable!!

]]> By: Adam http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-42581 Adam Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:17:46 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-42581 I think that this would be a terrible idea. I a have lived in Michigan all my life up until 1 Year a go. My job took me right over the boarder so i moved to help with the cost of gas. I relized that i would have to pay extra for a non resident license. but come on 300$ just to have a chance to kill to deer that outrages. If i have to pay that much i might as well go out to a ranch and have a 99% chance of killing a monster buck. Or just go buy a half a cow which tastes much better

]]> By: poppy http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-39496 poppy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:41:34 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-39496 what is the fine for hunting without a License with my father,he had his but me and my brother didnt buy one,so my dad got the ticket for us not haveing one. ?

]]> By: Wayne Hebert http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-39183 Wayne Hebert Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:49:50 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-39183 Yes raise them. When some one retires and moves away and hunted for 50 yrs in Mich. They sould not pay a full price non resident fee.I could not hunt this year with my sons for the first time since they were 14yrs.old. In most states fl.for one they do not charge for a senior over 65. Charge for adds in your rule books not just a selected few. Gun mfg,bow. ammo,pay to hunt places clothing mfg. on &on get with the times. DO SOMETHING see fl. rule book.

]]> By: mark germain http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-38637 mark germain Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:23:15 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-38637 35 years of living in michigan and hunting every year is something i’ll always remember’ having to move to ohio in 1990 and trying to continue to hunt in michigan’s up @ $100 to $132 i think this year 2008 is something that just might drive me to hunt in ohio stop the nonsense. 1 buck taken from 1990 on.

]]> By: George http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-36591 George Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:18:19 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-36591 There is a new link regarding my post above to view the first video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96l4mZsCKI0

Following that video, a meeting was held in Marquette in February. This link will take you to Delta County Conservation District website where a video is posted documenting that meeting. Click on the link and then click on the video on the upper right.

http://www.deltacd.org/get-involved.aspx

Additionally, there is a meeting scheduled this weekend in Gaylord, a “downstate” spinoff of the Marquette meeting. The effort is to build momentum culminating in a rally in Lansing near Memorial Day.

You can find that information at this link:

http://www.theoutspokensportsman.net/

There are many things going on with the DNR and the DEQ that are not making it to mainstream media, and certainly, southeast Michigan sportsman are in the dark about what is taking place. We are losing a lot just a little at a time. Get involved, or the outdoors as you know it will be gone. This is VERY serious.

]]> By: bronson yurgens http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-36589 bronson yurgens Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:05:16 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-36589 well i have to say i am not at all happy with this decison that might or might not be made dy the DNR Becuse 1.when you see the prices go up on somthing then with those chances you won’t want to buy that product, so if you think about it if the price goes up then people will start turning off to this subject.

]]> By: Spencer http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-35668 Spencer Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:33:02 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-35668 To the person who posted that they should have free reign to hunt without a license on private land… That is rediculous. You may own the land, you do not own the animals just because they walk onto your land. Give me a break, so you should be allowed to shoot every deer that steps foot on your property and if not, how would that be controlled if a license wasn’t required?

]]> By: George http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-28790 George Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:56:01 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-28790 I am in the middle of a self initiative on behalf of the Michigan Outdoor motorized and consumptives sports enthusiast. Simply put, I dont believe the MUCC, MSA, and other “associations” if you will, are taking this latest fiasco to task as they should be. Rather they are participating in the watering down of the real issues within Michigan’s DNR. That said, without a long history lesson, I urge you to visit the below website, which is snowmobile oriented. Scroll down the homepage a bit to the FRIDAY DECEMBER 21st UPDATE.

Just below that is a video you can watch w/a high speed connection directly from a “youtube” page. The video is from “Buck LeVasseur’s” outdoor show, December 17th, 2007, broadcast out of Marquette. it’s 10 minutes long.

If you have seen this or your members are familiar with it, I apologize for taking up your time. On the other hand if you havent, it’s a bigtime eye opener.

Our goal, at this point is to get EVERYONE on the same page and take the DNR to the woodshed so to speak. We dont feel this is a mere oversight, rather, a hiccup within the DNR that has left a crucial door open to their operations. All these years, one would like to believe an attitude like this is paranoia. Well, at this time, I would like to see the DNR PROVE that paranoia.

you can view the video here:
http://www.biskitscloset.com/home.htm

]]> By: Max http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-27410 Max Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:42:16 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-27410 Hello, my dad and I live just across the border in Ohio but have a friend in the Sturgis area who let us hunt his land this year. I’ve never gone deer hunting in Michigan, my dad did up until a few years ago. He suggested that we get a buck and doe tag between us and that it might cost 130 or 140 bucks total.

So the guy at the counter processes 1 tag and asks for $98 or $99. Okay no biggie, I pay it. He lays the tag out and I realize…THAT WAS THE DOE TAG! A hundred dollars for a doe? Buck tag of course was $138. The guy says: It’s a shame isn’t it? You’re doing them a service and they’re gouging you for it.

In the end we had a good hunt, deer were everywhere. We threw some money together to get another tag and came home with 2 bucks and a doe. I don’t plan to come back, though. I can get the same results in southern Ohio at a fraction of the price.

]]> By: Nick Utter http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-27290 Nick Utter Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:49:56 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-27290 Don’t you think that there is enough poaching and people shooting deer and not buying a tag and just cutting the deer up thier self going on already?? If they double the price of deer licences then people will not buy tags and still hunt.

Plus money is already a tight budget for the blue collar folks. I think that they are just greaty mother fuckers that want more money. (another quick way to earn an extra buck).

I don’t agree with doubleing the price of licences

]]> By: Skeptic Al http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25725 Skeptic Al Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:37:05 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25725 You own a “summer house in Michigan on a chain of lakes” and you are going to have problems paying a doubled license fee?

I’m sorry, but I find that utterly impossible to believe.

Michigan is going to lose its fish and water if the people who enjoy them don’t step up on their behalf. We’re in a battle with rising pressures on our water at the same time the cost of employing people to respond to these pressures is also going up.

Math is hard, but it gets easier if you open your eyes.

]]> By: Jim and Chris http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25701 Jim and Chris Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:32:40 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25701 We have a summer house in Michigan on a chain of lakes. We believe that a small increase would be ok, but if it becomes a ridiculous increase, we will have to seriously think about whether we want to keep the house in Michigan. Our kids love to come and fish , but they would not be able to afford very expensive licenses. We can’t afford to pay for everyone’s license that comes to enjoy the fishing and the surroundings. Over the years we have spent a lot of money in this community and feel that we have truly contributed to the good of this state. It hasn’t been a “one way street” that we have taken and given nothing back. Right now we are paying extra to control the weeds in the lake- which isn’t working so far. We can’t take on very many more expenses before we have to decide whether to just give up our “second” home. I do hope that wisdom is used in this decision – Michigan could lose more money than made on this one.

]]> By: Cmsy http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25442 Cmsy Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:56:49 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25442 CJ
Thank you CJ for at least being compassionate enough to say your sorry…..
You do not know what it is all about or you wouldn’t be laughing in other peoples faces implying us GM retirees are less than middle class anymore. You just like to see yourself talk, and not human enough to come forth and say that to a real man. Sorry to hear about you only getting 50% medical care, who’s fault is that you staying in the armed forces for that long. No brains to do manual labor????? lol
Kidding aside, a part-time job may suffice the other 50%. Would you like me to forward the protocol to enlighten you of what GM workforce, retirees had to lose due to the economy? Or would you rather keep thinking for the rest of your life the grief you are experiencing of what other people are paying for their health care and feeling slighted? Feel bad for people like you that cannot accept life for what it is worth and be happy your still alive and not in Iraq getting killed.

]]> By: CJ http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25329 CJ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:43:55 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-25329 Sorry to here you aren’t in the middle class anymore GM. Yeah, i know what it’s all about. I spent 20 years in the military and only get 50% medical and you’se guys bit@h because you don’t want to pay 25% of the medical cost share. Yeah, you’re not middle class alright. LOL

]]> By: Cmsy http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24801 Cmsy Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:22:27 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24801 No, I do not agree that the license fee be raised. There should be a reward posted for civilians reporting poachers, and the poachers need to pay for the reward…plus….a stiff fine. That will equal out the over payment of $15 on the license fees for 2007 and in the near future. Hunting is a sport, fishing etc. is a sport. It should not be classified as otherwise and if it turns out to be otherwise (poaching), you play you pay. It would all equal out for everybody.

]]> By: Cmsy http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24800 Cmsy Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:06:51 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24800 In response to the letter from CJ about the economy is getting worse even the license for hunting going up. You don’t know what you are talking about when you bring GM union workers into this letter of yours. I am a retired GM worker and had to relocate numerous time to keep my jobs that are going and gone to Mexico and overseas. Get your facts straight before you go sounding off of what you know nothing about. We are not called the middle class any longer, and do not drive the luxury cars like you state, if you want to pick on a business leave the car industry out of it because all the labor force will eventually get paid less than $20 hr/skilled not what you come close to implying, and being able to drive cadillacs. Michigan has gone to hell that I grant you because the government in Lansing, DC is greedy and want to fill their pockets more and more. Smear your government not the working innocent people. 50 % of the manufacturing workers have either took the buy-out or moved out of state after the industry down-sized. To me that is running away with the problem and not the solution. Upper management was to blame of how these car companies were run, and now there is 50% less than what we had in the work force making good damn money that was ruined by the so-called greedy upper managment.
Most do not even work for the automotive industry anymore which was a skill that no one off the street could even imagine
how complex the jobs were and how hard we all worked for our money. And I mean 10-12 hrs 6 days a week in order to be able to make ends meet. After uncle sam and all the taxes we pay in Michigan get paid there is little left for the luxuries, especially if you have a family.
Come on you automomotive workers, GM workers/retiress enlighten CJ it was not all a bed of roses to work for the automotive company no matter if it was GM, Fords, Chryslers.
If the work did not leave you crippled or some other ailment due to the hard work we entailed it brought on stress enough to not want to live any more. And that is sad, because I was there and done that. Any person that worked for so-called sweat shops (factories) no matter automotive or otherwise was and is living a grueling sad aftermath. We were not over paid for jobs we had to do to make a living, we had to do the overtime in order to get that good money, when it was available. Upper management had favorites that did the OT and all they did was stand around and do nothing and get huge pay checks, that is what went wrong with the industry. You do not know the inside story or the knowledge to smear the GM workers. At least we had a job and only the skill that we learned for that good money and some did not have the education to do anything else but the factory work. We were not classified as the low life that can’t/won’t work for a living, we are union and proud of it.
But did not deserve to have the jobs taken from underneath them by foreign countries. If you know so much tell us what went wrong in Michigan of why so many jobs have gone overseas. Look at our government that will tell you. It’s not hard to figure out the big picture.

]]> By: CJ http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24558 CJ Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:42:30 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24558 I agree Doug L.

I know a lot of people who have up and left because of the poor state Michigan is in. I’m in the U.P. because it was better, but thats changing too…

]]> By: doug lockwood http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24470 doug lockwood Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:39:38 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/should-the-dnr-raise-hunting-license-fees/#comment-24470 License fees are high enough already, this will only increase poaching. Other states are less expensive for tags and have longer seasons in some cases. Michigan is so depressed now and this is not the answer. There are less hunters now and this will only speed the process of more people not hunting. The northern communities will suffer even more, with less hunters going north to hunt. The price of gas is enough to keep hunters home, let alone raising the cost of licenses. Layoff some of the do-nothing beurocrats in Lansing and use their pay to subsidise the DNR! We pay enough taxes now. I just purchased land in another state for hunting and the fees will be less as a non-resident than in Michigan if the fee increases take effect. Looks like I’ll become a resident there also and pay even less!!!!

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