Habitat Hunting Access Summit

[guywhofishes]

2024 Habitat and Hunting Access Summit​

Join us for the North Dakota Habitat and Hunting Access Summit Tuesday, December 17 from 4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the Bismarck State College National Energy Center of Excellence (map).

Wildlife and fish require healthy habitats throughout their lifecycles in order to thrive.

Habitat loss across North Dakota is impacting both game and nongame populations.

These impacts trickle down, reducing the number of hunting licenses available and the quality of hunting and fishing experiences, threatening North Dakota's long standing traditions of hunting and fishing.

With 93% of North Dakota's land held in private ownership, access for hunting and fishing has also become a challenge.

The North Dakota Habitat Summit will address both these issues with presentations from state biologists and panel discussions that invite audience participation to look for productive ways forward.

Summit presentations will cover:

• the economic impacts of hunting and fishing in North Dakota,
• habitat changes,
• land access for hunting and fishing,
• the state of wildlife populations in North Dakota, and
• game management.

Attendees are encouraged to submit questions for the panel discussions prior to the summit (questions may be submitted when registering to attend the summit).

gf.nd.gov/habitat-hunting-access-summit

 

[bravo]

Awesome idea and could be the start of something productive.

Fingers crossed it doesn’t get taken over by the usual CWD shouting match.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

https://gf.nd.gov/advisory-board

Scroll down to District 7 Fall Advisory Meeting

Push play and skip to 14:00 minutes.

Director Jeb Williams and I know how to laugh about stuff.

Most meetings the NDGF like to say they do not deficit spend. I didn't get to ask if the federal government deficit spends.

 

[zoops]

Happened to click on your link this evening to the advisory meeting intending to watch a minute or two, ended up watching close to an hour when the discussion shifted to nonresident bird hunting numbers. I know it's a topic that has been hashed to death for years but I sure have heard a lot of talk about the state being flooded by nr this fall and hope this goes somewhere; it's time.

 

[Trip McNeely]

Happened to click on your link this evening to the advisory meeting intending to watch a minute or two, ended up watching close to an hour when the discussion shifted to nonresident bird hunting numbers. I know it's a topic that has been hashed to death for years but I sure have heard a lot of talk about the state being flooded by nr this fall and hope this goes somewhere; it's time.

Double the license cost. Its simple. You wouldn’t need a “cap” that Minnesota would sue over anyhow. Even if sales dropped by half the revenue stays the same. Other states are very “pro-resident” in regards to pricing. If I travel out of state to hunt I understand I’ll have to pay out the ass to do so….

 

[wslayer]

Why limited to 250 people for the meeting ?

 

[BrockW]

Double the license cost. Its simple. You wouldn’t need a “cap” that Minnesota would sue over anyhow. Even if sales dropped by half the revenue stays the same. Other states are very “pro-resident” in regards to pricing. If I travel out of state to hunt I understand I’ll have to pay out the ass to do so….

They could triple the cost and it likely wouldn’t do much. It would just mean the folks buying licenses would be showing up in nicer trucks and have more decoys.

We’ve seen this play out in other states. WY, MT, NV, AZ…no matter how much they charge for a NR license or tag, people will buy them and there are no leftovers. Now many of those same states are wanting to raise resident prices so they can cut or cap NRs. Some Montana residents are trying to do that exact thing. By making NR tags more expensive, you’re just making NR more valuable.

In my opinion, if you want to limit NR hunting of any kind….A cap is the only way. Even that won’t likely solve the problem in totality. Also have to figure out a way to spread out that pressure.

Something to consider, ND tourism and ND commerce dept are spending money advertising for NR to come to ND for our hunting and fishing. I’ve even seen some paid social media advertisements. Gov elect Kelly Armstrong was on the ND game and fish podcast advocating for the exact same thing. Trying to bring NR here for our hunting and fishing. He specifically called out the devils lake area.

 

[BrockW]

Why limited to 250 people for the meeting ?

I believe venue capacity limit.

 

[Kurtr]

Cap sure works good down here. Thanks Grandpa

 

[zoops]

Agree that a cap is the only thing that will make a difference (12,000 was mentioned by the one resident in the advisory meeting) as I don't think increasing the license cost a couple hundred bucks is going to deter hardly anyone. But as Brock illustrates with the tourism tweets, so much money is involved that it will be a longgggggggggggggggggg shot.
Hopefully I'm remembering the numbers correctly, I believe they said we are up to around 26000 NR waterfowlers and down to around 17000 Resident.

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

Our state government has been tripping over themselves to bring more people here for both tourism and to live since Ed Schafer. The more people here, the more of other peoples money they can spend. Like a bunch of heroine addicts, but with other peoples dollars.

 

[ndlongshot]

New group, North Dakota waterfowler and agriculture association looking to reduce NR numbers.

www.ndwaa.com

 

[Duckslayer100]

Go back to the way it was where early honker season counted against their two weeks. That would get a bunch to stay home or at least cut their trips short.

 

[Trip McNeely]

Ok then double the license cost and cap it at 14000k. Now everyone wins. Number is cut in almost half. Game and fish still gets revenue as before. Furthermore we need to divide the state into districts where pressure can be spread out relative to opportunities. 6 districts. NE, NC, NW, SE, SC, SW. the 14k Lisences can be divided out to those districts based on traditional waterfowl density and public lands. Also count any early season goose hunting towards that cap.

 

[zoops]

Ok then double the license cost and cap it at 14000k. Now everyone wins. Number is cut in almost half. Game and fish still gets revenue as before. Furthermore we need to divide the state into districts where pressure can be spread out relative to opportunities. 6 districts. NE, NC, NW, SE, SC, SW. the 14k Lisences can be divided out to those districts based on traditional waterfowl density and public lands. Also count any early season goose hunting towards that cap.

We can always dream Let the DL zone have a disproportionate number of licenses since their G/O's will put up a fit.