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Fish andGame are at odds over landowners selling tags
A generation-old debate overhowto reward landowners for
givingwildlife ahomehas turnedinto a fightover thenature of hunting
and the independence of the IdahoFish andGameCom-mission.The
commissionwants theLegislature to let it raisemoremoney tomanage
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hunting tags the state gives them.ReporterRockyBarker explores this
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For 76 years the IdahoFish andGameCommission has sought to
re-duce the role of politics inwildlifemanagement.But this year,
the six-memberpan-
el finds itself atoddswith landown-ers,whohave gone to the
IdahoLeg-islature seeking the ability to sell thedeer and elk tags
they get in appreci-ation for the role their landplays
inmaintaining Idahowildlife.HouseMajorityLeaderMikeMoyle
saidthatwithout this andotherprovi-sions, theDepartmentofFish
andGames request to increase huntingand fishing fees isdead for
this year.Idahohunting and fishing groups
oppose allowing landowners to selltags for thousandsof
dollars,whichthey say is essentially letting
individ-ualsprofitprivately fromwhat isconsidered apublic
resource.These
sporting groups are preparing for an-othermarchon theCapitol,
like thehundredsof hunters and anglerswho rallied inFebruary
toprotestproposals to transferof federal landto the state.The
six-member commission, es-
tablishedbyvoter initiative in 1938, isconsideringwithdrawing
its innova-tive feeproposaluntil next year if itcant get a
cleanbill thatdoesnthave the landowner tag sale andoth-erprovisions
attached..Tome this is just another exam-
ple of legislative overreach, saidMarkDoerr, ofKimberly, a Fish
andGame commissioner for theMagicValley regionwho is also the
ownerofPrecisionAviation inTwinFalls.
Idaho lawmakers, frustratedwith Fish andGames inaction
onbenefits for landowners, may hijack the agencys fee bill
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Abattle overwhoownsbig game, right tohunt
Eurabia fears riseafter terror strikes
BYFRANKJORDANSTHEASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN The headlines wouldsuggest Europe is under siege:
Thou-sands of Germans march against thecontinents Islamization.
Frenchreaders flock to read a novel about aMuslim president who
imposes Sharialaw on their country. Commentatorswarn darkly about
an encroaching ageof Eurabia in the wake of the Paristerror
attacks.
But is Europe actually heading to-ward Islamization?Research
shows that Europes Is-
lamicpopulation has indeed increasedsharplyover the last 20
years, and con-tinues to grow. But there is little if
anypossibility of Europe becoming pre-dominantly Muslim in this
century.And there are few signs that Islamicculture is spreading
beyond theboundariesofMuslim communitieslet alone becoming dominant
in Eu-rope.The Pew Forumpublished research
in 2011 predicting that EuropesMuslim populationwill almost
doubleto nearly 57million by 2030, from just
under 30 million in 1990. That mayseem like a lot, but it still
means thatEuropes Muslim population wouldonly increase from 4.1
percent to 7.8percent, according to the Pew paper.Moreover,
thePewreport says that theperiod of greatest growth in
Islamicpopulations is alreadypast.
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ROCKYBARKER/ [email protected] spentacareerat
the IdahoDepartmentofFishandGame seeking to improve
relationsbetween sportsmenand landowners,buthesaysmanyof todays
large landownerswant to sell thepublicswildlife toboost
theiroperationsadevelopment thathe sayswouldchange
thenatureofhunting forever.Here, he
inspectsagatemarkedwithano-trespassing sign southofBoise.
But thenumbers fall far shortofMuslimsdominating Europeanytime
soon.
Muslimwomenwalk ina street inDuisburg,Germany,a sign thatEu-
ropes Islamicpopulationhas indeedrisenover the last
twodecades,and
continues togrow.TheAssociated Press file
$1millionAnnualrevenue thecommis-sionhopestoraiseby
increas-ingmany licenses$1 to$6peryear,startingin2016.
22percentIncrease incostssince thelast increase in2005.
558Departmentemployees.
$95millionDepartmentsannualbudget.
40percentShareofbudget fromlicensefees.Theother60percentcomes
fromexcise
taxesonhuntingandfishinggear,con-tractswithbusinessesandthefederal
government.
330,000Approximatenumberofpeo-plewhobuy Idahohuntingandfishing
licensesannually.
FISHANDGAMEBYTHENUMBERS
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Sometimes,a bar fightis just abar
fightBYSAMUELRICHARDRUBINRecently, our office defended
one of twomen chargedwith afederal hate crime arising in aBoise
strip club. Itwas the first
federal prosecutionunder thisparticularstatute in Idaho.Bothof
the accusedwerefoundnot guilty ap-parently by a jurywho sawthis to
be
nothingbut a barroombrawl.This isonly the latest example
in anunending streamof cases inwhichpolice andprosecutorsstretch
the application of criminallaws as far as creativeminds canimagine,
pursuing federal anglesin attempts towin the harshestpossible
punishment.Unfortunately, even theocca-
sional judicial setbackdoesnotseem todeter thenextprosecutorfrom
casting adivining rod intothebottomless seaof federal crim-inal
provisions theynowhaveclose to 5,000 available to themto
inventnewtheoriesof prosecu-tion.This problemmanifests itself
inmany contexts, sometimes bor-dering on the surreal.Considerthe
case against JohnYates, acommercial fishermanwho be-came the target
of one of themostmisplaced applications ofwhite-collar criminal
law.The federal statutes inquestion
weredesigned tocombat thewhite-collarcriminalWallStreetandoil
executiveswhoattempt todestroypotentially incriminatingpaper
trailsandotherevidence.ThinkEnronorWorldCom.Instead,Mr.Yates
foundhim-
self in deepwater after anofficerwith theFlorida Fish
andWildlifeConservationCommissionboard-ed his boat in 2007.They
looked athis catchof about 3,000 fish, de-termined that 72 red
grouperweretoo small, and issuedYates a statecivil citation.The
smallestofthese offending fishwas 18.75inches, missing themarkby
1.25inches.However,whenYates re-turned toport andofficials
in-spected his catch again, some-thingwas fishy they foundonly69
(insteadof 72)undersized fish.Three years later,Yateswaschargedwith
violating the Sar-banes-OxleyAct bydestroyingtheundersized fish to
impede,obstruct, and influence the inves-tigation andproper
administra-tion of the catching of undersizedred grouper.Hewas
convictedand sentenced to 30days in prisonfollowedby three yearsof
super-vised release.A federal appealscourt upheld his conviction
andthe SupremeCourt agreed to re-viewhis case.Harvesting undersized
fish is
not a crime.Rather, it is a civilviolation punishable by a
fineand possible suspension of afishing license.However,Mr.Yates
had apparently ordered hiscrew to toss the undersized fishand
replace themwith legal ones.As such hewas chargedwith a
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HOWWEGOTHEREFish and Game has not
had an increase in huntingand fishing fees for morethan a
decade. It says itneeds to look at a fee in-crease and other new
rev-enues to be able to keep upwith needs for managingIdaho
wildlife for huntersand anglers as well as bird-watchers, hikers
and otherswho appreciate Idahos out-doors and animals but whodont
buy licenses or tags.Fish and Game proposes
to increase the price of a li-cense between $1 and $6 peryear,
starting in 2016. But itwould encourage casualhunters and anglers
to buylicenses every year bypromising toholdoff any in-crease for
license holderswho buy licenses annually.The commission hopes
theproposal can boost licensesales by 10percent by
givingintermittent license buyersthe incentive to buy everyyear.But
theHouse Resources
and Conservation Commit-tee nearly killed the bill ear-lier this
year, agreeing toprint i.e., introduce it only after Moyle
supportedit. Now hes working withother lawmakers in theHouse and
the Senate on anew bill.That billwould notjust allow ranchers to
sellthe tags they get in recogni-tion of the wildlife that re-sides
part of the year ontheir land, but also requirethe commission to
sell tagsto the highest bidder forsome big game, as it nowdoes for
bighorn sheep.It also would change the
big-game tag lottery systemto give hunters who apply,but dont
win a tag, bonuspoints that increase theirodds of getting a tag
infuture lotteries.But the pay-to-play provi-
sions concernwildlife advo-cates who want to protectthe
open-to-everyone tradi-tion of hunting and fishing.
The risk is sportsmenwill lose their voice inwildlife
management, saidWill Naillon, a Fish andGame commissioner
fromChalliswho isaminingenvi-
ronmental specialist.
APPRECIATINGLANDOWNERSAt issue is the section of
Idaho code that establishedthe commission in 1938.Hunting,
fishing and trap-ping rules were placedunder the
commissionersauthority because it is in-convenient and
impracticalfor the Legislature of thestate of Idaho to
administersuchpolicy.But Republican Sen. Bert
Brackett, a rancher fromRogerson, points to the lastline of the
code section:The commission is not au-thorized to change
suchpol-icy but only to administerit.That, he said, means the
Legislature should makepolicy on issues such as thesale of
landowner tags,whichhe supports.Fish and Games 27-year-
old Landowner Apprecia-tion Program allocates aportion of
controlled-hunttags to a lottery exclusivelyfor landowners.The
pro-gram rewards them for pro-viding habitat for deer,
elkandpronghorn.The special hunts inunits
where no general hunting ispermitted are prized bysportsmen and
landowners.To enter the lottery, a
landowner must have atleast 640 acres in that
area;landownerswith 5,000 acresor more can get anadditional entry
in the lot-tery.All eligible landownerscanget leftover tags for
theirarea on a first-come, first-served basis after the lotteryis
over.Landownerswhodraw an
appreciation tagcangive thetag to another person, butthey cannot
sell the tags.In 2014, the commission
considered a proposal toeliminate the lotteryand justgive tags
to eligiblelandowners based on howmuch habitat they provide.That
proposal also wouldhave given landowners theright to sell the
tags.In some areas, such as the
Bennett Hills southeast ofMountain Home, a lack ofpublic access
has resulted inlarge trophy mule deer,which could bringthousands of
dollars for thetags on the open market.Landowners would have
toprovide access to hunterswith tags in those areas.
Forty percent of the tagsin Unit 45, which includesthe Bennett
Hills, alreadygoes to landowners.The Fish andGameCom-
mission got resistance frommany hunters who
opposedanysalesofwildlifeandhalt-ed consideration of the planin
2014until the commissioncould find consensus on theissue,Naillon
said.Whether its the depart-
ment or the landownerspocketing the money, thesellingof
tagsatmarket rateschanges the nature ofAmer-icanhunting from a
sport forall to a sport catering to asmall group that can affordto
pay more, said Pat Cud-more, the now-retired Fishand Game employee
whostarted landownerprograms.
Were making it a richmans sport, saidCudmore,nowpresidentof
theNampachapter of Quail Forever, aconservation group.But Brackett
said selling
wildlife is alreadyhappeningwith landown-ers selling trespass
rights tohunt on their land for thou-sands of dollars and
thengiving the appreciation tagsaway free.Selling the tags,
Brackett
said, is a much moreorderly process than sellingaccess,he
said.
RANCHERSDIFFERWildlife belongs to all the
people of Idaho, and allhunters should get an equalchance for
Idahos prizedbig-game animals, saidMichael Gibson,
executivedirector of the IdahoWildlife Federation. But asimportant
as protectingequal access to tags, he said,iskeeping
thedecision-mak-ing power with the commis-sion and the experts in
itsdepartment, not with thepoliticians in the Legisla-ture.
We support the fee-in-crease bill, but we support aclean bill
without riders onit,Gibson said.Republican Sen. Steve
Bair, a farmer from Black-foot, is frustrated that
thecommissiondidntacton tagsales in 2014. Several sum-mers ago, he
said, a herd ofmore than 60 elk came frompublic land into his
hayfieldand ate so much hay hecouldnt harvest a secondcrop. He
estimated the lossat $13,000.
To me, its fair for
landowners to be compen-sated for feeding the
stateswildlife,Bair said.Republican Rep. Merrill
Beyeler, a rancher fromLeadore, said he has alwaysgiven hunters
who ask per-mission to hunt his land.Hedoesnt want or need to
selltagsor access, he said.
Someday, Imay need thesupport of sportsmen tocontinue to use
publiclands,Beyeler said.So far,Moyle hasnt intro-
duced the new bill with thetag-sale provisions.
ButCommissionerDoerr said ifa bill with tag sales andbonus-points
does emerge,thecommissionmayconsid-er waiting until next year togo
for the fee increase.Thatwould force them to opposethe current bill
calling forthe increase.At least one sportsmens
group, Twin Falls Sports-men for Fish andWildlife, isadvocating
a delay for an-other year to get consensusonall of the issues,
saidPres-ident ScottAllan.Formany rural Idaho leg-
islators, landowner tags arean especially tough issue.For 25
years, sportsmen
and landowners have beenunable to find commonground.The
IdahoFarmBu-reau presses the landownerside, while
sportsmensgroupsarevocalagainst sell-ingwildlife.
Its a difficult issue forme, said Republican Sen.Dean Cameron of
Rupert,who describes himself as
asportsman.Ihavelandownerconstituents, and I have a
lotofsportsmeninmydistrict.
Rocky Barker: 377-6484
LICENSINGCONTINUED FROMD1
Statesman fileHunters joinedother sportsmen inFebruaryataCapitol
rallyagainstproposals to transfer federal lands in Idaho to the
state. Ifabill is introduced to let landowners sell tags they
receive ina special recognitionprogram, thehuntinggroups say
theyllmarchon theCapitolagain.
Rockyhunts forelkanddeeronpri-vate land
inBoiseCoun-ty.Hegrewuponafarmwherehechasedoff
trespassinghunterswhodidntgetpermis-sion.Hes
theStates-mansenvironment/ener-gy
reporterandco-au-thor,withKenRetallic, ofTheWingshootersGuide to
Idaho.
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