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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 246715" data-attributes="member: 605">You guys crack me up. (Laughing out loud) I thought Mikkel Pates did a very good write up in that article. The difference is I was not selling, profiting from or commercializing the publics wildlife. My clients were old and never came back here from other States to compete for opportunity with ND residents to shoot any specie. So how does the Game and Fish sell opportunity to sportsmen? I like the free market. Just a heads up to Nick that he should be mindful not to cross that "commercialization of wildlife thingy." You don't want those sons-a-bitches on your ass. Speaking of one:Letter to the editor: No trespass bill is short sighted  By Dick Monson  from Valley City  on Feb 1, 2019  at 6:42 a.m.   AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to Facebook 21Share to Twitter Share to Reddit Share to Email Share to Copy Link In every session of the North Dakota Legislature it seems a no trespass bill comes forward from a small group of people. Thankfully it has always been soundly defeated in the past as a bill that is a perennial bad idea in a new coat of paint. Our current recreational access law allows sportsmen to hunt private land that is not posted. It has stood the test of time and bipartisan legislative compromise for most of 90 years. The new bill, SB-2315, would require permission on all private land which is 93 percent of North Dakota, even from landowners who have never posted. As a farmer I believe this new trespass bill would be a public relations disaster for the North Dakota ag community. Think about it. Farmers have depended on public financial support to stay in business. Our rural electric grid was funded in part by tax dollars from the public and low-interest public loans. Throw in our good publicly funded road system too that moves the grain and beef. Same public funding for the rural water systems we needed and the new high speed fiber optic lines that have made our farms more productive and more valuable. Try that on your own dime. I am grateful for that public support. Right now farmers are waiting on $12 billion of public aid through USDA to make up for the trade war commodity price loss. In addition, over the years the public, through USDA, has kicked in to help farmers for disaster payments, direct crop payments, revenue assurance payments, prevented planting, drought payments, crop insurance subsidies, forage assistance, etc. Billions of taxpayer dollars from the public have flowed into the North Dakota ag community over time. So how will the ag community show gratitude now? With a no trespass bill? A new statewide no trespass/no hunting law seems to me a short-sighted and mean-spirited way to thank the hundreds of thousands of North Dakota citizens who hunt and fish in our state and have supported us in agriculture. Those sportsmen will go someplace else and take their good will and dollars with them if this bill passes. The public citizen's good will is too valuable to squander with a radical no trespass bill. If the North Dakota tourism industry and main street businesses are on their toes, they aren't  going to like the drop in revenue either when sportsmen are told to go elsewhere. Good one Dick. </blockquote>

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