We really need to think…

We really need to think first about increasing the population when that happens then think about increasing the opportunities to have hunters get a tag. Life happens and when someone applies for a tag they may have the intention of accepting a tag, people get sick, family members get sick, people lose jobs, people have work demands that change, people get invited to weddings, other members in the group get a tag so they don’t end up accepting a tag. If ten hunters are in a group and 5 putting for bull and 5 put in for a cow in reality they will probably only accept one bull and one cow tag. The proposed change is would force all members to accept a tag and pay a fortune or be punished. In reality we don’t want cows or calves harvested. Why not take people’s points away if they accept a cow/calf tag to discourage hunters from accepting cow/calf tags in the late allocation. Also if they accept a bull tag in the late allocation they lose some points for accepting a tag. We should be thinking long term increasing moose population not short term getting as many tags in hunters hands as possible. If a tag is not claimed is that a bad thing? I think it’s a good thing that means one less moose that is harvested. It’s easy to reduce a population very difficult to increase a population. How about if you don’t do your harvest report instead of a monetary penalty you lose your points.