So it's totally acceptable to squander our license dollars for everything except what they should be used for?

Ducks Unlimited has actually been involved in projects all over the state. Panhandle, North Texas, Gulf Coast, etc. I'm not going to name WMAs, or locations but if you do your research through their website you've got good opportunities everywhere. Maybe actually look up past projects before you assume they don't do enough.

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If it were me I'd move back to Iowa.

You need to go back and read what I said. I never said there were no projects in our area. I said the projects are concentrated on the coast. And if you view the continental map of conservation efforts North Texas isn't even in a region. I'm not knocking DU. I'm a member. I expect that much of the conservation funds are raised in the coastal area, Austin and San Antonio. I would be willing to bet many of those hunters are oriented to the coast so I don't fault DU for it's decisions. That's also the place that flyway conservation efforts should be concentrated. The gist of my argument was that what the government gives the government can take away. If political winds in Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska change there are going to be a lot of duck hunters wondering what happened. I don't want to rely on the state and while I would like DU to be involved, I don't think asking them to help us keep more ducks from continuing to the coast or staying longer in North Texas is a political possibility. There are peanut fields and winter wheat North West of Abilene. If those crops are viable in North Texas we should figure out a way to make it happen.

You hit the nail dead square.

No, but I don't know if our fees totally support TPWD. I have a state license for a profession that dues do totally support the licencing agency. We were able to keep the state from claiming any excess. We certainly have the numbers to do the same if we banded together. Is there an organization that represents all of us before the state legislature? We have DU, QU, CCCA, BASS, NWTF, etc but I can't think of any organization that represents all of us before the legislature.

there's more people and orgs other than TPWD behind it, but you'll come to realize that anything managed, ran, or receives assistance from TPWD tends to not make any sense

The State uses the intended funds for other purposes



http://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbth...s_S#Post6911490

I've been reading and looking at pictures of other states waterfowl public waters. They really do a good job of setup hunters for succcess. I understand Texas is a deer state but how many deer get taken by public land hunters a year in Texas? To me this is less about what species and more about how money is allocated because I hunt public and it's hard to scratch out a limit of dove on public when your hunting a 500 acre field of dirt. The state leases these lands and nothing is done to Attract the dove. I pay a lot of money every year to hunt and it doesn't seem to be put to good use. Not like other states and I'm a Texan that believes everything should be better here became of the amount of resources we have but I just don't see it.