Rich Kovars
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You are also looking at a state with less than a million and a half residents and 10,000 square miles of area.
In Arkansas, the AGFC supposedly turns a profit. Arkansas has very progressive game management philosophies; it is known for big fish and lots of ducks and quality deer and turkey hunting. For a state with terrible overall budget management and generally non-progressive fiscal policies, the AGFC does an absolutely excellent job. I believe they have a system there where the AGFC gets the money from license infractions.
Zach
It looks to me like fine revenue stays in each county and goes to education programs.
As for licensing. I disagree there.
It may be nothing more than a peice of paper but to me it denotes some responsibility and assumed understanding of the regs, etc.With regards to Bird watchers.
Yep, they are a large “user” group of the natural resources as are many other groups. They will argue that because they don’t harvest anything they shouldnt pay.I disagree.
They put strains on parks and resources. Paths are maintained, patrolled, run into truble and call 911 just like any other user group.
Here in Ontario we have an “outdoors” card that expires every 3 years and subsequent to that we pay for our hunting/angling liscences that are affixed to the card. I wouldnt mind at all if more user groups had to purchase the cards (if not liscences). At the end of the day people are using the resources, straining staff and budgets. Funds derived from fines etc would probably alleviate alot of the funding shortfalls for NR.That is an interesting system.
Being from a state where there is no sales tax, it wouldn’t work here in New Hampshire. As it is, Fish and Game fights tooth and nail to get any monies from the general fund.
I don’t think the problem of enforcement is motivation either. I think it is a matter of shear numbers. Fish and Game in most states has been cut to the minimum. Most days they need to go in five directions at once.
You also have to be careful of definitions. In New Hampshire, fines are considered license revenue.
That may sound kinda mystical but I’ve actually conducted a lot of research into this. In the sports medicine field they call it “deliberate practice,” which basically means intentionally analyzing physical movement and making various tweaks, and trying to mentally learn from the physical feedback you’re being given by each tweak.
I’m listening to the book Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin and The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
For the shotgunners on the board I just finished a couple by Michael McIntosh:
Shotguns & Shooting
Shotguns & Shooting ThreeMcIntosh has a nice easy style.
I got a whole stack of old Gray’s back issues recently (mostly from the 70s including the preliminary issue) and have been cruising through them. There is some really good stuff.
Quote by Frank Woolner in an article about grouse hunting from the preliminary issue in 1975:
It has been said that a grouse hunter reads good books,
fishes with a dry fly, is kind to his children, and never
beats his wife with anything but an imported Hardy rod.Reminds of this post from one of the Mountain Khakis ambassadors:
Droves of tourists are flocking to the Eastern Sierra as an economical alternative to far off destinations. With southern California tourists come Southern California issues. Self-reliance is not a virtue shared by all. The hustle and bustle of urban life seems to create human beings incapable or unwilling to deal with crisis in any fashion that doesn’t involve a Mocha Chino and pharmaceutical escape.
There are also some really good articles available on his website:
I don’t have much experience on PCs editing video either, but I hear that Premier Elements isn’t bad.
They buried this in the speech a bit, but there’s now an emulator for the iPhone OS that you can run on a regular Mac.
Zach
That has been in the SDK since 1.0.
That was not a trained eagle was it? You might lose your photographer of the post award if it was ;D
I bet the carp was!
Over time, I think the eReader technology like the Amazon Kindle and its ilk will improve to the point that we have paper-like full-color displays that don’t look so “computer-y.” Eyestrain is a major factor in why people don’t like to read online all day, and that is related to the pixel count more than anything else.
ZachActually, I think flicker rate has far more effect on strain than pixel density.
