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<blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 258512" data-attributes="member: 605">The point is these threads get blown up by the same recurring theme. Why can't non-profits buy land? The short answer is the voters rejected Measure 5. But then bravo says the reason the voters rejected it was because it was poorly written. A simple wave off. That is not what happened. The long answer is not one person in North Dakota wrote one word into Measure 5. It was written by the National Wildlife Federation who then passed it to their regional director from Montana, Dave Dittloff who then drove to Bismarck getting 25 sponsors and submitted it to the Secretary of State. However, it wasn't a grass roots movement and sportsmen didn't carry the petition. Ducks Unlimited got involved and hired a Missouri firm to pay circulators to gather signatures. The point bravo is we are at logger heads. Sportsmen are mad because certain landowners won't take no for an answer on the trespass signage issue and landowners are mad because certain sportsmen won't take no for an answer when it comes to inviting non-profits into our State who need the sportsmen's help acquiring more land.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fritz the Cat, post: 258512, member: 605"] The point is these threads get blown up by the same recurring theme. [B]Why can't non-profits buy land?[/B] The short answer is the voters rejected Measure 5. But then bravo says the reason the voters rejected it was because it was poorly written. A simple wave off. That is not what happened. The long answer is not one person in North Dakota wrote one word into Measure 5. It was written by the National Wildlife Federation who then passed it to their regional director from Montana, Dave Dittloff who then drove to Bismarck getting 25 sponsors and submitted it to the Secretary of State. However, it wasn't a grass roots movement and sportsmen didn't carry the petition. Ducks Unlimited got involved and hired a Missouri firm to pay circulators to gather signatures. The point bravo is we are at logger heads. Sportsmen are mad because certain landowners won't take no for an answer on the trespass signage issue and landowners are mad because certain sportsmen won't take no for an answer when it comes to inviting non-profits into our State who need the sportsmen's help acquiring more land. [/QUOTE]

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