So the dnr is aware of all this inflation but wants to pass off another fee inflation on the"people" that are already dealing with tough times. Thanks guys!! 😮
The "Department" does not "own" the public lands in the state of Michigan as this state employee just stated. This is where the current department and NRC has gone wrong with their ideology of their role of management. The public lands are owned by the tax paying citizens of the state for public use. The role of the Department and NRC is to manage and PROTECT all natural resources on these lands in the best interest of the Resources and citizens. This is why they are funded by the citizens license fees and taxes. They are not the states "largest landowner" or free to manage as such.
DNR is supposed to manage the resource not worry about being a reveneu stream for the state coffers. Slective cutting not clear cutting. Solar is only 30% efficient using hydro and natural gas is more efficient and cleaner.
Instead of increasing liscense fees for hunting and fishing how about cutting back on giving away our tax payer money in Grants. Let's do an audit of the DNR and see where that goes. Is our money being spent responsibly now? Solar doesn't work in Michigan in December and January, especially in the snow belt. The People should decide not politicians or the DNR.
I understand what you say, but that game does not stay on your land. It leaves and comes and goes as it pleases if you are bordering state land, and it goes to state land. If you ride a bike or fish, any of the rivers or lakes and take any of the fish that the Dnr plant then you need to pay for licenses for all that stuff hunting a fishing licenses take care of state parks, fishing, ramps, and everything else not just the
Great point about solar panels in Michigan. Neighbor has them on his roof... they're getting ZERO power now because they're covered with snow and it's too dangerous and difficult to clean them.
@@lsetaxi They don't need to double our fee's for hunting and fishing if they are giving it away in Grants. Show me how the money is being spent currently and will go from there. Are the People receiving the Grants even paying any of these fees for hunting and fishing?
No, to solar panels, it's a loser. No to huge license increases. People just aren't buying them as is. I remember when I had a wife and two kids. License fees were brutal. Inflation is already killing me in a state where governor Twitmire cage free eggs have raised egg prices alone 300%. For the 3 days I go out, I'll just stop hunting. If the proposal is to tear down our forests and put up nasty ass alternative energy sources which don't work, are ugly and permanently make an area unusable for hunting etc, I'd say we're on the wrong track.
Right. My only disagreement is the "no _huge_ license increases". I say no increase at all. Their plan is, obviously, to propose a big increase so we don't kick as much when they raise it only about 50 to 75% of what they are saying now, as though they are doing us a favor and they'll expect us to be grateful. I don't see anything in this guy's talk that is an increased benefit to me. Why do I pay more for the same service? Time to write those letters to your legislators, folks.
20 bucks for a deer tag is still too much in my opinion and now they want to raise it up more? Go steal money from the cartels they'll never miss it not us Michiganders
Want to make sure I understand what mr dnr said.So they want to raise our license prices( which makes me want to buy less) and want us to take more does? Meanwhile the want to lease 640 acres to a solar company for $40 a acre? So what I heard mr dnr say is they want to stick it to the Michigan outdoorsman and women to give big solar companies a deal! Got it
Yeah, the whole license fees raising with inflation? Does it go down when inflation in is low? Funny thing is if things get cheaper the government never drops prices…
It's amazing to me that the DNR is clear cutting thousands of acres of state land and still wants to raise license fees especially for seniors. Seniors are having a hard enough time making ends meet. The DNR is going to make it to where hunting and fishing is a young person's sport.
Except recruitment of young people isn't anywhere near replacing older hunters who quit due to age or simply pass away. Now they're going to drive older hunters out faster. Did the price of deer go up under the Biden administration???
Yall should put the number of how to contact that guy so all the people that dont wanna loose our land can put in are opinions cause no one wants the solar field specially in a beautiful piece of land unlike what he described!!
13:51 "...recreation passports..." We are already paying way more for that that was ever proposed. 14:42 "The hyper inflation that we saw through covid..." You mean the hyper inflation that we saw through Democrats spending billions of dollars we don't have. 18:34 "...seniors have become a much larger portion of our license buyers..." So, you think it makes sense to alienate the largest and most loyal customer group you have? That's enough. I am not going to try to comment on every aspect of this guy's presentation. It is total and typical bureaucratic B.S. Tell me this: How much would the DNR save if there was no "Executive Policy Advisor"? What does this guy do for us?
Taylor is such a typical politician! Perhaps instead of raising fees, try being more frugal with expenses. Seniors would bear the brunt of the increases. Base goes from $5.00 to 13.25, Deer from $8.00 to$22.50, Turkey from $6.00 to $17.25 and fishing from $11.00 to $30.50. According to my math that is an increase from $30.00 to $83.50 for a senior for those four licenses. That means nearly tripling the cost for seniors. As he mentioned, the seniors make up a sizable group when it comes to hunting and fishing. If you drive the seniors out of hunting and fishing, you’ll be right back asking for more.
This guy need to go college and stay there he knows nothin bout land management we have the lowest out of state tags in the usa we need to help residents and tax out of staters and if they start make rules that help management and grow bigger bucks they will pay!! no to solar on state land we only have so much land to enjoy and cutting it down for a solar field that cant even power a town is ridiculous who ever thought of that should be fired!!
Instead of using state land for solar arrays why not put them on the land already owned and cleared by the power companies under existing powerlines. There have to be enough cleared acers under these lines to put as many solar panels as the state could want. These lands offer immediate access to the existing power grid.
He keep's saying the department owns the land. We own the land and place it in the departments trust to manage for us. Semantics, maybe but I believe its important for the "STATE" to be ever mindful of it. Thanks for addressing the solar farm issue!
My response to the increase in license fees will be to buy less tags and participate in fewer hunting opportunities. Instead of a combo tag, antlerless, elk application, bear application, spring and fall turkey and fishing, I'll buy a single deer and fishing license only. Where are all of the $$$ going from the clear-cutting logging operations in northern Michigan? Many of my old hunting areas are wide open "parking lots" with all of the tops left on the ground. Nothing is growing up and through the mess that's left behind. Nothing cleaned up and nothing replanted. The NRC and the DNR are doing a spectacular job!
Put the solar panels in the city on the building tops where they belong, not in our wild nature. Department of NATURAL Resources do your job, not the politicians. Conserve our nature, don't destroy it.
Looking at the deer license fees it looks like it costs $11 for a base license and $20 for one kill tag, $40 the deer combo. So, either $31 or $51 depending on the license you choose. Here in Kentucky I pay $27 for a "Annual hunting" license, then $35 for a statewide deer permit, which allows me 4 deer, only 1 can be a buck. I can purchase a "Sportsman License" which covers hunting/fishing license, deer permit, spring and fall turkey, waterfowl permit and trout permit for $95, which is what I normally do. If I just wanted to hunt deer, then I'm paying $62. I really don't think your fees for deer hunting are "excessive." I grew up in Michigan and still come back every year to bow hunt and gladly pay the $171 it costs me for a nonresident archery tag.
This is why I stop fishing and hunting because of the increase in fees to do so. If all the hunters and fisherman wood boycott the hunting and fishing sports for a couple of years you would put the department of natural resources out of business.
@nick1985fjb if you are fishing with children in the state of Michigan and you are an adult you have to have a fishing license even to help the children fish. It's the law! Check it out.
I was shocked this DNR rep compared public land lease for natural gas with that of solar. Natural gas provides a lot of relatively clean energy and the wells require very little land space. In contrast, solar panels take HUGE areas of land to implement, are not energy efficient, and are ugly. A BIG NO to solar on public land!
We should be working on no licenses required for private landowners. The DNR doesn't manage my deer or small game. I do and i pay taxes on it allowing deer small game etc refuge. If anything the state should pay me for the refuge of game animals. And requiring hunters to get a small game passport and all species fishing is another loser idea in a long line of loser ideas. My uncle only fishes for bluegills. He only hunts deer. What you've effectively done is to tie his hands and force him to purchase far more than he wants or needs. I realize the states got deep pockets. Our representatives are waaayyy over paid. So for them a few hundred dollars isnt much. But think of the majority of us. The Joe and Julie 6 pack hunters working at low wages trying to pull together $300 for licenses alone. Let alone the gas etc for a once a year hunting trip. Youre making it into a rich mans sport. Which i think inevitably is the idea.
Hey everyone if you enjoy the outdoors. How about we all work together and let our voice be heard. We go a year without getting our license. This will show the state don't "F" with our lifestyle and our wallets. Hell can't even afford a load of bread. Those licenses are how most of us Feed our families. And the passports are a joke! We are paying for something that's not even being kept up. Then things that have been there for years not needing a passport. Now you do. Money hungry STATE! How about start listening to the people that feed your families and not the government they don't pay you we do
With the license increase maybe do a discount license to people who are poverty level. We struggle to make ends meet as is because of policies made by people who are well off and think its a "sport" instead of a way to feed our families affordably. I can raise a turkey (guruntee of meat) for the same price if not cheaper than the proposed increase. Once the cost to hunt goes past price to raise your own there's no point to hunt. I And as for solar I'm sorry but the DNR is supposed to protect the people's land it's not theirs unless we've moved back to the middle ages and it's the "kings land" If put to solar it should be put to a vote by the people. And people should vote on who runs the DNR. And they should be audited every 4years with the info available to everyone. Just my opinion Thanks for covering this its very important to keep people informed
The MDNR has not learned from the the last election that WASTEFUL SPENDING is the problem for the horrific inflation. I hope they realize...the voters are ready again to VOTE OUT politicians & replace government employees who believe raising prices are the answer for everything. The MDNR has too many unnecessary & expensive projects. CUT the projects the people never get any say in or are allowed to ask about and leave the license fees alone.
Solar panels? Who is responsible for cleanup if a hailstorm or windstorm damages the panels which contain heavy metals? Very unsightly and incompatible with wildlife and the natural outdoors. Jimmy should have challenged this more.
I would have no problem with a fee increase, if our voices mattered when it comes to fishs and game policies in this state Get the extra revenue from the NRC ! There the only ones that have any say in anything
Can't believe what I just watched. A young guy say that the DNR relies on seniors for a big chunk of there revenue. Just more profe that they are out of touch with the younger generation and have know plan for the future.
NO to renewable energy. It’s a loser. When is the ROI for the tax payer?Where do solar panels go when they go bad? It’s not cost affective to reclaim any reusable material in them. A gas or oil well takes up an acre or two. Solar fields are hundreds of unusable acres for the hunter/tax payer. So there’s not really a comparison that he used. Great episode. Keep it up. And DNR, keep the prices down.
How about you just put in antler restrictions to make deer hunting hood in MI and then people will want to hunt again. Do not increase prices, change the regulations.
So in other words we want a raise and you as sportsman and women are going to give us one. And the solar thing we need to put it up to a vote not just let the MDNR use it as they want because obviously they think they can. The state is at 15% solar/ wind energy and they want to be at 60% when their done. Of all the turbines and solar we have now theyll have to take out the majority of farmland or the majority of woods pick one so we can know if we are going to starve or not have oxygen.Taxes pay for those lands. Tax payers need to be reimbursed for them if they sell them. Not get a second charge from an energy company. We gotta be getting tired of paying taxes and our reps buying something for us and selling it so it can be used to give us another bill. Drug companies do it now its going to be the electricity companies. Great so when is tax payer going to win. I guess we're not.
Why don’t we start putting a watercraft sticker on all the kayaks that are being used everywhere… these people aren’t paying a single penny to use our waterways… even $15 for say 3 years… remember… it’s just a suggestion and my opinion… so don’t beat up on me too hard…🙂👍
Dont give them any ideas! They need to make better use of the funds they get. Do a better job of attratching new hunters, ways to keep hunters in the sport. Raising fees an imposing new ones hurts us "we the people".
Big issue with this kid and his belief that the DNR is a company that owns land. The DNR did not own land. We the people of the state, and this young college kid needs to learn that real soon. We, the people of the state, do not believe in the goals of this top advisor to have our electricity coming from solar or wind generators. Re-open the coal power plants or make them natural gas. My electric bill is easy to high and it's caused by these renewable methods.
I don't agree with the state bulldozing woods wetlands or not for solar panels. I as a farmer I cannot just go bulldoze my woods if there is any type of weeds the consevationist consider wetlands to expand my farm field
The dnr r so full of shit the deer hunting in the state ducks and I'm mot buying licenses this year I'm just going to stop hunting and fishing and if they want to have more money stop driving around in 150, 000 dollar trucks like they do and if they want hunters to come back bring back baiting and the solar panel farms r bullshit
So the dnr is aware of all this inflation but wants to pass off another fee inflation on the"people" that are already dealing with tough times.
Thanks guys!! 😮
Maybe the DNR can sell off some of their drones to help make ends meet.
Really nice watching the footage of all the solar panels covered in snow not producing any electricity 😂
The "Department" does not "own" the public lands in the state of Michigan as this state employee just stated. This is where the current department and NRC has gone wrong with their ideology of their role of management. The public lands are owned by the tax paying citizens of the state for public use. The role of the Department and NRC is to manage and PROTECT all natural resources on these lands in the best interest of the Resources and citizens. This is why they are funded by the citizens license fees and taxes. They are not the states "largest landowner" or free to manage as such.
I agree, they need to get away from the legacy thinking that " the department owns the lands" .
I came to say the same thing. Time to defund the dnr and all the power abusers. This is “Our” land.
That's what my comment says also.
10 to 15 dollar increase will definitely stop me from hunting anymore. The 3-4 days I am able to hunt a year, it's not worth it to me the older I get.
Ill go elsewhere, i got land in indiana.
DNR is supposed to manage the resource not worry about being a reveneu stream for the state coffers. Slective cutting not clear cutting. Solar is only 30% efficient using hydro and natural gas is more efficient and cleaner.
Instead of increasing liscense fees for hunting and fishing how about cutting back on giving away our tax payer money in Grants. Let's do an audit of the DNR and see where that goes. Is our money being spent responsibly now?
Solar doesn't work in Michigan in December and January, especially in the snow belt. The People should decide not politicians or the DNR.
I understand what you say, but that game does not stay on your land. It leaves and comes and goes as it pleases if you are bordering state land, and it goes to state land. If you ride a bike or fish, any of the rivers or lakes and take any of the fish that the Dnr plant then you need to pay for licenses for all that stuff hunting a fishing licenses take care of state parks, fishing, ramps, and everything else not just the
Let's do an audit of the natural resources commission.. along with the DNR they both need to be revamped
Whens the last time the miDNR has been audited?
Great point about solar panels in Michigan. Neighbor has them on his roof... they're getting ZERO power now because they're covered with snow and it's too dangerous and difficult to clean them.
@@lsetaxi They don't need to double our fee's for hunting and fishing if they are giving it away in Grants. Show me how the money is being spent currently and will go from there. Are the People receiving the Grants even paying any of these fees for hunting and fishing?
Really enjoyed the coyote hunt and excellent camera work. Very informative episode.
Thanks for all the hard work.
No fee increases until teh DNR publishes the salaries of their personnel. More workers are needed not high priced administrators
I got a recommendation for the DNR... They can go ingest a satchel of Richards!!! A big ol bag
No solar on state land put panels on business rooftops and in parking lots to cover spots
Fees rise with inflation? Does they decrease with inflation also? “Trying to keep things open to the public”? The “public owns it”…. Period
Good show tonight. Keep your eyes open for the public comment portion of their process, and contact your state legislators in Lansing.
No, to solar panels, it's a loser. No to huge license increases. People just aren't buying them as is. I remember when I had a wife and two kids. License fees were brutal. Inflation is already killing me in a state where governor Twitmire cage free eggs have raised egg prices alone 300%. For the 3 days I go out, I'll just stop hunting. If the proposal is to tear down our forests and put up nasty ass alternative energy sources which don't work, are ugly and permanently make an area unusable for hunting etc, I'd say we're on the wrong track.
Right. My only disagreement is the "no _huge_ license increases". I say no increase at all. Their plan is, obviously, to propose a big increase so we don't kick as much when they raise it only about 50 to 75% of what they are saying now, as though they are doing us a favor and they'll expect us to be grateful. I don't see anything in this guy's talk that is an increased benefit to me. Why do I pay more for the same service? Time to write those letters to your legislators, folks.
20 bucks for a deer tag is still too much in my opinion and now they want to raise it up more?
Go steal money from the cartels they'll never miss it not us Michiganders
Gov twitmire😂
I agree.
Caged or cage free eggs should be a choice the consumer makes not the goverment.
Want to make sure I understand what mr dnr said.So they want to raise our license prices( which makes me want to buy less) and want us to take more does? Meanwhile the want to lease 640 acres to a solar company for $40 a acre? So what I heard mr dnr say is they want to stick it to the Michigan outdoorsman and women to give big solar companies a deal! Got it
Yeah, the whole license fees raising with inflation? Does it go down when inflation in is low? Funny thing is if things get cheaper the government never drops prices…
You can thank our globalist Governor Wretched Whitmer for this energy crap. The state department’s are her means to achieve her goal.
Well said guys!
It's amazing to me that the DNR is clear cutting thousands of acres of state land and still wants to raise license fees especially for seniors. Seniors are having a hard enough time making ends meet. The DNR is going to make it to where hunting and fishing is a young person's sport.
Except recruitment of young people isn't anywhere near replacing older hunters who quit due to age or simply pass away. Now they're going to drive older hunters out faster. Did the price of deer go up under the Biden administration???
Yall should put the number of how to contact that guy so all the people that dont wanna loose our land can put in are opinions cause no one wants the solar field specially in a beautiful piece of land unlike what he described!!
13:51 "...recreation passports..." We are already paying way more for that that was ever proposed.
14:42 "The hyper inflation that we saw through covid..." You mean the hyper inflation that we saw through Democrats spending billions of dollars we don't have.
18:34 "...seniors have become a much larger portion of our license buyers..." So, you think it makes sense to alienate the largest and most loyal customer group you have?
That's enough. I am not going to try to comment on every aspect of this guy's presentation. It is total and typical bureaucratic B.S. Tell me this: How much would the DNR save if there was no "Executive Policy Advisor"? What does this guy do for us?
Taylor is such a typical politician! Perhaps instead of raising fees, try being more frugal with expenses.
Seniors would bear the brunt of the increases. Base goes from $5.00 to 13.25, Deer from $8.00 to$22.50, Turkey from $6.00 to $17.25 and fishing from $11.00 to $30.50.
According to my math that is an increase from $30.00 to $83.50 for a senior for those four licenses. That means nearly tripling the cost for seniors. As he mentioned, the seniors make up a sizable group when it comes to hunting and fishing. If you drive the seniors out of hunting and fishing, you’ll be right back asking for more.
This guy need to go college and stay there he knows nothin bout land management we have the lowest out of state tags in the usa we need to help residents and tax out of staters and if they start make rules that help management and grow bigger bucks they will pay!! no to solar on state land we only have so much land to enjoy and cutting it down for a solar field that cant even power a town is ridiculous who ever thought of that should be fired!!
Just curious, does it make sense to put solar panels in a state that sees the sun 5 months out of the year?
Instead of using state land for solar arrays why not put them on the land already owned and cleared by the power companies under existing powerlines. There have to be enough cleared acers under these lines to put as many solar panels as the state could want. These lands offer immediate access to the existing power grid.
Great show tonight, coyote hunt👍👏
Call your reps repeatedly
He keep's saying the department owns the land. We own the land and place it in the departments trust to manage for us. Semantics, maybe but I believe its important for the "STATE" to be ever mindful of it. Thanks for addressing the solar farm issue!
My response to the increase in license fees will be to buy less tags and participate in fewer hunting opportunities. Instead of a combo tag, antlerless, elk application, bear application, spring and fall turkey and fishing, I'll buy a single deer and fishing license only. Where are all of the $$$ going from the clear-cutting logging operations in northern Michigan? Many of my old hunting areas are wide open "parking lots" with all of the tops left on the ground. Nothing is growing up and through the mess that's left behind. Nothing cleaned up and nothing replanted. The NRC and the DNR are doing a spectacular job!
People will just not go hunting or fishing. Or just not buy licenses. Purposed increase is way out of hand.
Put the solar panels in the city on the building tops where they belong, not in our wild nature. Department of NATURAL Resources do your job, not the politicians. Conserve our nature, don't destroy it.
Agreed. The cities have already destroyed the land so might as well put the eyesore of solar panels there.
Well we’re losing more hunters I already know that
Great interview Jimmy.
Looking at the deer license fees it looks like it costs $11 for a base license and $20 for one kill tag, $40 the deer combo. So, either $31 or $51 depending on the license you choose. Here in Kentucky I pay $27 for a "Annual hunting" license, then $35 for a statewide deer permit, which allows me 4 deer, only 1 can be a buck. I can purchase a "Sportsman License" which covers hunting/fishing license, deer permit, spring and fall turkey, waterfowl permit and trout permit for $95, which is what I normally do. If I just wanted to hunt deer, then I'm paying $62. I really don't think your fees for deer hunting are "excessive." I grew up in Michigan and still come back every year to bow hunt and gladly pay the $171 it costs me for a nonresident archery tag.
No on solar. 2. I agree with limited license fee. Just because seniors are a good majority of purchasing of licenses why jam them with increases?
You don’t have enough money for day to day operations but are buying up more land really how are we supposed to support that
Deception... we have to cut back but the state an feds NEVER do.
This is why I stop fishing and hunting because of the increase in fees to do so. If all the hunters and fisherman wood boycott the hunting and fishing sports for a couple of years you would put the department of natural resources out of business.
Ill stop buying licenses aswell. Just let the kids fish an fill the freezer!
@nick1985fjb if you are fishing with children in the state of Michigan and you are an adult you have to have a fishing license even to help the children fish. It's the law! Check it out.
@nick1985fjb and you don't have to be fishing.
@@gregoryfuzi4745 nope ill be boat captain, lol.
I’ll still deer hunt but I wont buy a license. 🖕🏼
Tying license fees to CPI? If they do, I'm out. Both as a Hunter Ed instructor and as a hunter.
I was shocked this DNR rep compared public land lease for natural gas with that of solar. Natural gas provides a lot of relatively clean energy and the wells require very little land space. In contrast, solar panels take HUGE areas of land to implement, are not energy efficient, and are ugly. A BIG NO to solar on public land!
We should be working on no licenses required for private landowners. The DNR doesn't manage my deer or small game. I do and i pay taxes on it allowing deer small game etc refuge. If anything the state should pay me for the refuge of game animals. And requiring hunters to get a small game passport and all species fishing is another loser idea in a long line of loser ideas. My uncle only fishes for bluegills. He only hunts deer. What you've effectively done is to tie his hands and force him to purchase far more than he wants or needs. I realize the states got deep pockets. Our representatives are waaayyy over paid. So for them a few hundred dollars isnt much. But think of the majority of us. The Joe and Julie 6 pack hunters working at low wages trying to pull together $300 for licenses alone. Let alone the gas etc for a once a year hunting trip. Youre making it into a rich mans sport. Which i think inevitably is the idea.
Agreed! Especially since my property taxes keep rising with this over priced market!
Hey everyone if you enjoy the outdoors. How about we all work together and let our voice be heard. We go a year without getting our license. This will show the state don't "F" with our lifestyle and our wallets. Hell can't even afford a load of bread. Those licenses are how most of us Feed our families. And the passports are a joke! We are paying for something that's not even being kept up. Then things that have been there for years not needing a passport. Now you do. Money hungry STATE!
How about start listening to the people that feed your families and not the government they don't pay you we do
Just inscribed from this joke of a show.
With the license increase maybe do a discount license to people who are poverty level. We struggle to make ends meet as is because of policies made by people who are well off and think its a "sport" instead of a way to feed our families affordably. I can raise a turkey (guruntee of meat) for the same price if not cheaper than the proposed increase. Once the cost to hunt goes past price to raise your own there's no point to hunt. I
And as for solar I'm sorry but the DNR is supposed to protect the people's land it's not theirs unless we've moved back to the middle ages and it's the "kings land" If put to solar it should be put to a vote by the people. And people should vote on who runs the DNR. And they should be audited every 4years with the info available to everyone.
Just my opinion
Thanks for covering this its very important to keep people informed
If you want more people to take more deer why would you raise the price on it when you already do not have enough people hunting?
Can't wait to bag me one of them there " solar panels"!! lol😅😅😅
Yes there are planned projects in roscommon County and the UP
The MDNR has not learned from the the last election that WASTEFUL SPENDING is the problem for the horrific inflation. I hope they realize...the voters are ready again to VOTE OUT politicians & replace government employees who believe raising prices are the answer for everything. The MDNR has too many unnecessary & expensive projects. CUT the projects the people never get any say in or are allowed to ask about and leave the license fees alone.
solar farms in one of the cloudiest states in the country, genius
The DNR gets 5 hundred thousand for tax dollars for the tAx payer be for any license fees
Solar panels? Who is responsible for cleanup if a hailstorm or windstorm damages the panels which contain heavy metals? Very unsightly and incompatible with wildlife and the natural outdoors. Jimmy should have challenged this more.
I would have no problem with a fee increase, if our voices mattered when it comes to fishs and game policies in this state
Get the extra revenue from the NRC ! There the only ones that have any say in anything
More coyote hunting how-to's, please.
Can't believe what I just watched. A young guy say that the DNR relies on seniors for a big chunk of there revenue. Just more profe that they are out of touch with the younger generation and have know plan for the future.
NO to renewable energy. It’s a loser. When is the ROI for the tax payer?Where do solar panels go when they go bad? It’s not cost affective to reclaim any reusable material in them. A gas or oil well takes up an acre or two. Solar fields are hundreds of unusable acres for the hunter/tax payer. So there’s not really a comparison that he used. Great episode. Keep it up. And DNR, keep the prices down.
They are mostly underground as well, very little is above ground. That's the worst comparison the dnr could of used.
How about you just put in antler restrictions to make deer hunting hood in MI and then people will want to hunt again. Do not increase prices, change the regulations.
So in other words we want a raise and you as sportsman and women are going to give us one. And the solar thing we need to put it up to a vote not just let the MDNR use it as they want because obviously they think they can. The state is at 15% solar/ wind energy and they want to be at 60% when their done. Of all the turbines and solar we have now theyll have to take out the majority of farmland or the majority of woods pick one so we can know if we are going to starve or not have oxygen.Taxes pay for those lands. Tax payers need to be reimbursed for them if they sell them. Not get a second charge from an energy company. We gotta be getting tired of paying taxes and our reps buying something for us and selling it so it can be used to give us another bill. Drug companies do it now its going to be the electricity companies. Great so when is tax payer going to win. I guess we're not.
Why don’t we start putting a watercraft sticker on all the kayaks that are being used everywhere… these people aren’t paying a single penny to use our waterways… even $15 for say 3 years… remember… it’s just a suggestion and my opinion… so don’t beat up on me too hard…🙂👍
Dont give them any ideas! They need to make better use of the funds they get. Do a better job of attratching new hunters, ways to keep hunters in the sport. Raising fees an imposing new ones hurts us "we the people".
No need for a increase at all dnr just want bigger paychecks lets be real here
Big issue with this kid and his belief that the DNR is a company that owns land.
The DNR did not own land. We the people of the state, and this young college kid needs to learn that real soon.
We, the people of the state, do not believe in the goals of this top advisor to have our electricity coming from solar or wind generators.
Re-open the coal power plants or make them natural gas. My electric bill is easy to high and it's caused by these renewable methods.
The biggest lie is were doing it for the public!
Good job to Nate and Mike
I don't agree with the state bulldozing woods wetlands or not for solar panels. I as a farmer I cannot just go bulldoze my woods if there is any type of weeds the consevationist consider wetlands to expand my farm field
Just don't buy one
Mummbler
Call your reps repeatedly!!!!
The dnr r so full of shit the deer hunting in the state ducks and I'm mot buying licenses this year I'm just going to stop hunting and fishing and if they want to have more money stop driving around in 150, 000 dollar trucks like they do and if they want hunters to come back bring back baiting and the solar panel farms r bullshit