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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 248975" data-attributes="member: 314">Sportsman should see this compromise for what it really is IMO and hopefully contact their reps and get this thing killed.  Do NOT be fooled.  This so called compromise essentially is no compromise at all.  It will not be mandatory so the usefulness of this database will be immediately limited and we will ignore the costs of putting it together and maintaining it and the questions about where the money will come from.  Here's how I see this going if it doesn't get killed in the house..........  Any landowner that doesn't want hunters or phone calls will be red right off the bat.  Any landowner that already has standing relationships with hunters and like the current arrangement will be red to protect those hunters.  (That's where I'll end up.  I have enough hunters on my place already that taking calls from others will just make me feel bad when I say no, so I'll be avoiding that all together.) Any landowner that really doesn't care if hunters go on their land, but want to know who is out there will start out as yellow.  Then during harvest or planting (think spring snow goose) when the phone starts to ring off the hook from hunters will soon change to red as many of the landowners just won't have the time to deal with hunters and won't want the hassles.  The landowners that put their land in green or leave it yellow, will see an uptick in use and abuse due to so much other land being closed (red) that I can't help but think that uptick in use will push at least some of them over to red after a few years.  So in essence what I see happening with this so called compromise is that it will end up being almost the same thing as just being a total no trespass state.  Which is exactly what the proponents of this bill wanted in the first place.  So where's this so called compromise again??  If you care about your hunting opportunities and want your children to enjoy what you have today, Please contact your reps and urge them to vote NO on this bill.</blockquote>

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