Organized effort to limit kills and drive-up license costs

[NYDAN]

I received this newspaper article from my brother who lives in Florida. This article ran in the 9/24/25 Fort Myers News-Press.

And we hunters wonder why it can be difficult to draw a tag and why they cost so much...





Why can't the idiots in this world allow the state and federal game managers to do their jobs?

 

[JD338]

We have the same BS in MI. On average, it takes 5-6 preference points to draw a bear tag.

JD338

 

[RememberBaker]

If they are successful and reduce the number of bears killed then I would expect the Florida Fish and Wildlife people will take that low success rate into account next year when they decide how many tags to make available.

 

[Firebird24]

Happens in every state-I’ve seen it for sandhill cranes and swans and cougars. The wildlife divisions have their hands full-managing humans, not so much animals

 

[RL338]

The last time we have a wolf season we have the same issue.

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Bears in WV have become an aggravation. There is so many that there is 2 per year limit but one has to come from certain countys. The season has been open during buck season. I used to buy a tag incase one walked by now I get one free with my senior citizen's license. Hasn't walked by me yet

 

[Todd NE WY]

The simple solution to that is to run the hunt like they do in most western states, the permits are unlimited but the season closes once the mortality quota is reached. This eliminates the ability of those groups to decrease the harvest.

 

[PJGunner]

Hell! California has done this for at least as long as I can remember. I did my first deer hunt on Labor Day weekend 1949. On that date and from way before probably my birth year (1938) that has been the rule. Shoot a spike or doe deer and you have committed a serious crime, I kid you not. They are sacred cows. Every year, at least that I remember as I left California in 1968, never to return, they've held a special drawing for doe and spike hunts. Seems like members of a certain nature lovers groups seem to apply and draw all the tags. AFAIK, no hunter has ever seen a tag. I had friends who put in and never drew a tag.
One year before I left that state, I was hunting in Lake County on private property owned by some friends. I got lucky and shot a deer the was a spike on one antler and a barely legal bump on the other. It was just enough to hang a ring on. Wouldn't you know it, along comes the Game Warden and the barely legal deer may be illegal. Seems like I'd shot an antlered doe. All female parts except for the "horns" on her head. The fact he could hang his "ring" on the one bump is all that saved me a ticket, heavy fine and the loss of my rifle. I remember talking with a few people in Fish & Game and the powers that be refuse to listen to the game biologists.
Now this is all based from when I lived there. Somehow, I seriously think anything has changed for the better. No mater. I was smart enough to leave early one. I always believed in, "Flunk now and avoid the rush,"
Paul B.