Excellent topic. Where is our money? Where does it go? Where is the transparency?
just a few of many hunter concerns. Out of respect for everything the BCWF has done I will keep this as clean as possible. Where is hunter representation? BCWF is losing members and clubs at an alarming rate, perhaps time to reconsider BCWF policies and position.....get back in the fight for what’s right.
Did you have time to look through this: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads...Update-WEB.pdf
gives you an idea of what they've done so far and what they are going to do.
Thank you. I missed it. Interesting to see if and how it follows through
The new wildlife agency and the $100 million cash infection was a Lib promise, died in the election?
Never say whoa in the middle of a mud hole
meant to say 'infusion'
freudian slip
Never say whoa in the middle of a mud hole
"Infusion"!!!????
Man, you sure you don't live in the West End in downtown Vancouver!
As dapesche highlighted, the idea of applying all license and tag fees to wildlife is being discussed, and it was one of the items on the table at the recent Improving Wildlife Management and Habitat Conservation workshop in Richmond. Attendees were non-FN stakeholders from industry through to ENGOs as well as government.
It's still in "goal" stage, and it's not clear how it would be handled. Freshwater fishery is a proposed model.
One thing to keep in mind: it's all well and good to demand license and tag revenue go back to the wild landscape, and it's great to claim "Hey, we're the ones paying and it's our money", but be careful - we don't want to be limited to that amount, because we need way, way more, and we need more people than hunters paying.
Anyway, it's still on the drawing board. It's a huge job to move it off the drawing board and get it into the rulebook.
Rob Chipman
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders" - Ed Abbey
"Grown men do not need leaders" - also Ed Abbey
This.
Without going into a huge amount of detail I have some experience in Municipal government and you have to be really careful about user fees or what are called "specific purpose taxes" (I think I remember the terminology right). California is a good example of where there have been ballot initiatives to tax "X" to fund "Y" and the numbers never balances out - you always have either too much revenue or too little (usually the latter).
I've been on this forum for a bit, and know there are some that don't support or are frustrated with the BCWF, but it is issues like this where organizations like the BCWF can say "fees go to X and AT A MINIMUM this amount of money is spent on X".
In other words, an advocacy organization like the BCWF might say something like "Hunting License Fees should go to conservation, but not just Hunter enjoy the wildlife we are conserving (hikers, birders, tourism companies, etc. do too) so License Fees should be applied to Conservation IN ADDITION to $X from general revenues". If you just have a petition, without the advocacy organization, you can get screwed in the end. (true, you might still get screwed - BCWF is advocacy, it is not government, they can advocate for things but that doesn't mean the government will enact them - but you'll get better results than with NO advocacy).