Sort of like DC the republicans compromise and the democrats don't. Likewise it's always the sportsmen compromising and the landowners looking for the next angle to squeeze another dollar from the public. Montana ranchers are the worst. Their political swamp sure needs draining.
looking through your mailing tube again, Bruce, and holding that tar soaked brush in your right hand as usual! Or are you left handed?
In my long experience at life nothing is EVER all or none or one sided! Those who believe so are simply holding up positive progress.
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It is great that companies like onxmaps are jumping onboard to this issue. There is no reason the public should be blocked out from accessing public lands. Even private land that is land locked has access granted to them through public land so why doesn’t it go both ways?
The more I scout WY he more frustrated I get when I see big blocks of good public land surrounded by ranches that outfit and there is no way for a common guy to get in there without a helicopter. Politicians on the state and national level are just as much to blame for not solving this issue. These big outfits line their pockets so why would they listen to a normal constituent?
As sportsmen we need to fight this public land access issue as it will soon become the last land a every day hunter can access. Once the number of hunters goes down so does the number of people who support the right for us to hunt. We need to protect our right to hunt and fight for access to OUR LANDS. We can not afford hunting to become a rich mans sport.
I absolutely agree migrator! How do we sportsmen band together to collectively lend our support for access to public lands. We sportsmen are great at blogging and complaining but how do we somehow band together with other groups who also want full access to public lands. Groups like hikers, campers, birders, etc! Instead of continually disparaging them. Standing up for our collective rights requires MONEY! And cooperation with other similar minded public land use groups.
MULTI USE is the key. I recently got chastised on a private Facebook blog by pointiNg this out to a Nevada Camper who tried to tell hunters, now that archery season was on, to STAY OUT! I politely pointed out that the land is public and multi use and ALL groups must band together despite some disagreements about use with what other groups might have, and there is strength in numbers. If not, in that part of Nevada even though they might force hunters out, which won’t happen, they might be trying to camp and hike beside oil wells or uranium mines and be locked out! We all better hang together or we’ll all hang separately! Believe it or not, I actually think I got the point across to these so called “ environmentalists!” We ALL should be environmentalists in one way or another! Most of those bloggers said they never thought of things that way and at least some seemed convinced.
And remember that when it seems so many of us complain, hunters are way in the MINORITY when it comes to wanting our slice of the public land pie! For starters, if we don’t all band together with other groups and quit bad mouthing each other, hunting will be strictly a pay to hunt thing and will never change. Hopefully not in my lifetime...hope I’m wrong!