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<blockquote data-quote="Slappy" data-source="post: 443511" data-attributes="member: 7608">At first glance, I would tend to be in the camp opposed to public money being spent on private land without public access. That is a completely reasonable position for any fiscal conservative. However, numerous things unique to this state make that position problematic for wildlife and hunters. Nodak has a low percentage of public land, a high percentage of crop and pasture land which is cut or grazed annually, extremely limited wooded areas, brutal climate, and a high percentage of resident hunters along with many NR's.I would not agree with spending public or NDGF money stocking fish in a private lake with no public access. The difference there is fish can't walk to the public lake a quarter mile down the road.I would like to see more done with the school trust lands but by law those are not managed for wildlife and hunting. Unfortunately, changing trust land use is a political minefield.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slappy, post: 443511, member: 7608"] At first glance, I would tend to be in the camp opposed to public money being spent on private land without public access. That is a completely reasonable position for any fiscal conservative. However, numerous things unique to this state make that position problematic for wildlife and hunters. Nodak has a low percentage of public land, a high percentage of crop and pasture land which is cut or grazed annually, extremely limited wooded areas, brutal climate, and a high percentage of resident hunters along with many NR's. I would not agree with spending public or NDGF money stocking fish in a private lake with no public access. The difference there is fish can't walk to the public lake a quarter mile down the road. I would like to see more done with the school trust lands but by law those are not managed for wildlife and hunting. Unfortunately, changing trust land use is a political minefield. [/QUOTE]

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