A state Senate bill that would increase certain hunting license fees beginning in the 2009-10 season received public support Monday from Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director Carl Roe.
Senate Bill 1527 is sponsored by state Sen. Charles T. McIlhinney Jr. (R-Bucks), who is the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee chair.
"It has been 10 years since the General Assembly approved the last license fee increase in 1998," Roe stated in a news release. "During that time, the agency's cost of doing business -- from gasoline to utility bills, from lime, seed and fertilizer costs to personnel costs -- have increased significantly. All of these increasing costs are outside of our control, and leave us with the choice of cutting or eliminating programs and services.
"If approved, this license fee increase will enable the agency to restore pheasant production and stocking to 200,000 birds for small game hunting, move forward with planned habitat improvement projects stalled due to sky-rocketing fuel and fertilizer costs, and fill vacancies throughout the agency so that we can fulfill our wildlife protection, research and habitat improvement mission."
The proposed bill would reduce nonresident junior license fees while increasing nonresident adult license fees.
PGC are a bunch of crooks!
I aint payin' more for the game commission to more effectively screw us. They are doing that well enough without more money. I'll quit first. Seeing as our numbers are droppin' at over twice the national average, You think the idiots would take notice.