Taking Away Public Ownership of Fish And Wildlife? | Fresh Tracks Weekly (Ep. 70)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- This week we’re talking about how there’s a potential threat to the public’s ownership of fish and wildlife as the Georgia Legislature passed a bill that stripped language from a law that had to do with the public trust doctrine.
A few news stories that we also cover include;
The Alaska Governor recently announced new appointments to the Board of Fisheries and Board of Game which included Fresh Tracks regular, Jim Baichtal!
A study in Michigan has been trying to figure out if they can vaccinate wild deer for bovine tuberculosis via an edible bait.
In Grand Teton National Park it was reported that the removal of mountain goats has continued with 15 were killed within the park in 2023 and they estimate around 10-20 goats remain in the Teton Range.
A Dairy worker in Texas recently contracted the bird flu making him the 2nd person in the United States to be reported.
In Wyoming a man has been accused of running down a wolf with a snowmobile, catching it while still alive, taping its mouth shut and then bringing it home with him and then bringing it to a bar, before finally killing it.
The first large-scale wildlife overpass in Idaho was finished last year and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership put out an article detailing the project and initial success.
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Been dealing with landowners trying to claim land that’s public my entire life. I also believe if you are receiving taxpayer money to sustain your operations the land should be open to the public. Gets old watching them get millions in handouts while driving new 100k pickups every year.
Sorry for what might be a dumb question. Can you be specific in terms of the millions you are saying the private landowners receive? Some context and depth of the alleged handouts would be helpful to understand. Thank you
@@rob4263 One example here in Utah is that "farmers" can get compensated by the state for "livestock feed" that gets "destroyed" by elk. So naturally what that means is... the large high-fence petting zoos that masquerade as livestock ranches literally get paid to feed their own elk that they then turn around and charge 50k a head to shoot. I'm sure there's a menagerie of schemes, some good in original intent, like land conservation.
@@jcarry5214 wow that sucks
@@rob4263grazing fees, property taxes, land owner taga to name a few.
The real issue in GA is their interpretation of navigable. Essentially, if you can’t take a barge down it it isn’t navigable. I used to fish some in North GA, but refuse to buy a license due to this very issue. Many rivers that would be viewed as navigable by federal standards are not in GA. If you own land on both sides of a river in north GA, you can treat it as your own personal aquarium. Refuse access, refuse fishing rights, stock non-native fish, and feed fish in your river.
In Manitoba it is crown (public) land for 100 feet perpendicular to and bordering the flow from the high water mark of a navigable water on both banks. Essentially if the flow is named as a river it is considered to be navigable and if a flow has been historically floated it is considered to be a navigable. The river bed is crown land as well.
Any comments or news on the legislation bills from Minnesota taking upper red lake away from public access?
From Georgia here. Y’all should add a link to the legislation in GA in your video description.
In NY and CO the landowner owns the stream bed. The courts even backed a king george land grant in the douglaston salmon run case in Pulaski NY.
Keep putting videos up like this. Randys received a bastion of bullshit for "ruining" hunting. Especially in montana. Nothing could be further from the truth.
These videos and the education that comes from it matter to the future of hunting.
In Ohio you are allowed to be in a boat while on private land but you are not allowed to walk on the ground below the water. For someone like me who wades small rivers and creeks I am not allowed to fish on private land without permission.
Yeah it's like that too in Michigan- sucks coming from bluelining for trout in central PA
Interesting stuff! 😊
In Utah they already pretty much have taken away the public input for fish and game management. The wildlife board oversees rulemaking in the state, and those on the board are appointed by the Govnr and in a significant majority of the positions, they are or have been actively involved in one or two major "sportsman's" groups... of which I am certain Randy already knows quite a bit about and has a strong opinion on. In state and federal wildlife agencies, positions have been filled in biology and management positions by preservationists intent on eliminating hunting, often siding with ESA or even actively fighting ESA from returning management to states.
I'd like to know more about that. What I see the most about Utah in my time here is the backbreaking speed land moves into private hands just for development. One year it's state land where you're pheasant hunting, the next they moved the city limits by a half mile out into the GSL and you can't be there anymore. I'm sure it was the same when they were bending over for the wildlife ranches and syndicates of private owners that landlock certain units. One of my favorite examples is this 20 acre area behind my house. It was a marshy pasture when I moved into our rental. A surveyor told our next door neighbor that there's no way they'd ever be able to build in that kind of wetland. Absolutely unbuildable. 2 years later there were 12 homes in there, and more are planned. Weird how money makes wetlands disappear, along with almost all of the 50 or so deer that wintered in there, and all the quail. I know very little about the organizations here that actually impact policymaking, but it's clear they make it very unclear. But clearly somebody is getting what they want. Unless I'm mistaken the elk season shakeup starting last year amounted to yet another giveaway to the owners of private lands where elk are hanging out in those idiotic late seasons they invented. That plus just mincing everything up to create more tag revenue.
@@jcarry5214 The state land you are referring to is usually State School Trust lands, set aside for the state to sell or rent to fund schools and to build as cities expand. They periodically auction those off through a "public" auction. Yes, there are a lot of big prospective land buyers in the wings looking for the chance to buy these state school trust lands, whether they are in a marsh, bog or on some remote mountain side in the middle of a wilderness area, they find ways to get their hands on it for development. The Utah CWMU landowner permit system is a joke. They allow the managers to hunt from Sept 1 through Nov 10 for deer with firearms, and they can set the dates you can hunt if you are the "public draw" recipient, and they typically limit those to 3 days on the property, and in restricted areas so that you're not likely to accidentally shoot one of the big deer/elk that they might sell to a high paying client.
@@LancePostma-ry9mc no this is separate from the school trusts. Talking in Davis county specifically, the lake bed. That makes at least some sense. But yeah, we both get the point. It’s weird to have so much of something that benefits so many people but just a little greed and a little mismanagement takes stuff away from net public good at a disproportionate rate.
Did you get a chance to look at the following article from Colorado: Colorado Parks and Wildlife announces the appointment of new Outdoor Equity Grant Board members. Very interesting!
It’s a BS board. Literally no one is stopping people from going outside.
Anytime the word "Equity" is used, you can your bottom dollar your about to get screwed by far left politics.
I live in N.E. Michigan which is a TB area. What the DNR is reporting that they are doing to address the TB issue is B.S. What they ARE doing is pretty much wiping out the deer herd. They are hiring sharp shooters with silenced rifles and high powered air rifles with thermal night scopes to kill as many deer as they can. They collect the deer and dump them. I used to see 20 to 30 deer a day a few years ago, last year I hunted from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31 pretty much every day and saw 3 deer the whole time and none during the firearm season. And from what I hear, they are going to expand these efforts across the state. I do not trust anything the DNR says or does.