Improving the PLOTS program

How much would you be willing to spend on a PLOTS stamp?

  • $10-20

    Votes: 28 35.9%
  • $20-50

    Votes: 30 38.5%
  • $50-100

    Votes: 16 20.5%
  • $100 or more

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • Total voters
    78

Bowhunter_24

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I wouldn't pay a dime for a plots stamp. plots is private land OPEN to sportsmen. Not private land open to most sportsmen as long as they pay.

go lease some land if you want to pay.
 


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I wouldn't pay a dime for a plots stamp. plots is private land OPEN to sportsmen. Not private land open to most sportsmen as long as they pay.

go lease some land if you want to pay.

I really don't know much about PLOTS and how it's funded to be honest. Could a so called "PLOTS Stamp" be used to pay the private land owner more, so there would be more incentive for PLOTS? Just curious as to what makes a land owner want to be a part of it.
 

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Why do you not have ( $ 0.00 ) as an option in your poll?
Because it's asking how much are you willing to spend. If your willing to spend 0 that tells me you are not willing to spend. ;)

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I wouldn't pay a dime for a plots stamp. plots is private land OPEN to sportsmen. Not private land open to most sportsmen as long as they pay.

go lease some land if you want to pay.
Well technically you are still paying thru license fees now so.....

I'm saying they could still offer some areas that wouldn't require the stamp. That's for people such as yourself. The stamp would just be another way to generate more funds and possibly increase enrollment so there would be more opportunities.
 

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I think this is a great idea in theory, but like others mentioned there is a lack of good quality lands available to be enrolled in the program. One solution I could see to this would be for the G&F to take some of the PLOTS money (or PLOTS stamp money) and use it to pay for the annual lease on state school lands and then develop those lands into excellent wildlife habitat. I know those lands are already open to hunting, but most of them are currently worthless for hunting purposes. Lots of them have great potential if managed for wildlife.
 


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How do you know that I am willing to spend $ 0 if it is not an option in your poll. If you leave out the $ 0 option how accurate is your poll? I assume that there are a few people on here that would have checked the $ 0 option but without the choice they are not able to vote. The way it looks now there is at least two people that would have voted for the $ 0 option.


Because it's asking how much are you willing to spend. If your willing to spend 0 that tells me you are not willing to spend. ;)

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Well technically you are still paying thru license fees now so.....

I'm saying they could still offer some areas that wouldn't require the stamp. That's for people such as yourself. The stamp would just be another way to generate more funds and possibly increase enrollment so there would be more opportunities.
 
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I think there needs to be some distinction between Productive and Non-Productive PLOTS land before Im willing to spend some extra money.

Ive driven past countless tracts of PLOTS land which has been left unplanted, tilled and/or hayed grasslands - with the exception to a few canola fields, most left in the above conditions is worthless for any type of hunting..
 

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How do you know that I am willing to spend $ 0 if it is not an option in your poll. If you leave out the $ 0 option how accurate is your poll? I assume that there are a few people on here that would have checked the $ 0 option but without the choice they are not able to vote.
Sorry but I don't really care how many aren't willing to spend anything on it. I'm sure there are many thousands that don't even hunt that would fall into that category. This isn't about those people. It was to see how much people would be willing to spend to support that type of program not how many wouldn't be interested in it at all.
 

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I wouldn't pay a dime for a plots stamp. plots is private land OPEN to sportsmen. Not private land open to most sportsmen as long as they pay.

go lease some land if you want to pay.

yea ill just get right on that. leasing land for 50 to 100 bucks a year. Sign me up!
 


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Sorry but I don't really care how many aren't willing to spend anything on it. I'm sure there are many thousands that don't even hunt that would fall into that category. This isn't about those people. It was to see how much people would be willing to spend to support that type of program not how many wouldn't be interested in it at all.

Your Poll question is "How much would you be willing to spend on a PLOTS stamp?"

Who said just because people would not be willing to spend money on a plots stamp that they are not interested in the plots program.


Without the $ 0 option your poll is about as accurate as the popular vote in N. Korea

Kim Jong-un won in the last parliamentary election in 2014 - gaining 100% of the vote in his Mount Paektu constituency.
 

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So they want some thing for free wonder what bernie would vote......

to add i have no opinion as this is a ND subject and i have been told before to not comment on ND subjects because i suck and i am from Sodak. So save the bad rep and carry on with the proliferation of public acres in ND.
 


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I'd be willing to pay 20 for a stamp to go towards PLOTS. I also like the sign in system too. Might not be asnbig a deal finding places to hunt if all would show some common courtesy too- pick up trash, hulls, wads, etc... I think most here do. Most of the PLOTS I hunt are for waterfowl and some upland hunting, very seldom do I encounter other hunters so I am not sure what effect the stamp would have. I also find a fair amount of un posted land, I use resources to figure out the owner and nearly all are a trust and the few that show a local owner we make an attempt to contact just in case, more often than not it is "well is it posted? No. Then what are you waiting for/bothering me for."

Ohio used to have a hunting with permission only sign that marked property landowners were willing to open to hunting, pretty sure it fell by the wayside, but it was nice to have and it helped build trust and relationships. Getting permission in Ohio on private land now is harder than getting Kim Jung Un to not get all the votes in an election.

I feel pretty fortunate to live now in a state that has so many options for hunting and hopeful that we can keep jackasses with no respect for landowners and private property from ruining it.
 

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I am not asking for anything for free I just disagree with a special stamp. We already are paying for the plots with the purchase of our hunting license. Now if the question was are you willing to pay more for your hunting license with the additional amount going to the plots program then my poll choice would be different.


So they want some thing for free wonder what bernie would vote......

to add i have no opinion as this is a ND subject and i have been told before to not comment on ND subjects because i suck and i am from Sodak. So save the bad rep and carry on with the proliferation of public acres in ND.
 

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I wouldn't pay a dime for a plots stamp. plots is private land OPEN to sportsmen. Not private land open to most sportsmen as long as they pay.

go lease some land if you want to pay.
Do you think this private land is OPEN to sportsman for free? You are already paying for it through license fees. So it is already private land open to sportsman who are forced to pay through license fees. At least a stamp gives people the option of contributing more money to a valuable program because they realize nothing in life is "FREE"
 

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I suppose a guy could just donate to NDGF with stipulation money goes to PLOTs? Sure it would get used as requested...
 

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I am not asking for anything for free I just disagree with a special stamp. We already are paying for the plots with the purchase of our hunting license. Now if the question was are you willing to pay more for your hunting license with the additional amount going to the plots program then my poll choice would be different.


if a stamp cost 20 bucks or they increase license fees 20 bucks which one costs more?
 


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