ghggroundforce wrote: Why is it that many of the same guys that think that YWD is ruining our duck hunting are also all for a teal season and say it won't have much of an effect on the numbers of other ducks such as wood ducks available during the regular season. I hardly think that one day of a YWD is going to have anywhere near the effect on pushing birds out of an area as a teal season for a couple weeks would.
ghggroundforce wrote: With that being said I would say over the last 10 years of hunting MN openers less than half of my bag has been teal. So I feel that I would miss out on a lot of opportunity to hunt the wood ducks and mallards that make a large portion of the bag.
ghggroundforce wrote: I know that the majority here are going to completely disagree with most of what I said, but I also want you guys to see that not everybody wants a teal season, and some want to continue YWD.
I take it you're against open water goose hunting that takes place for a couple weeks to over a month before regular duck opener?
What I really want is for your opinion, my opinion, the commissioner's opinion, every other hunter's opinion, non-hunter opinions, or anti-hunter's opinions to not have any bearing into how hunting seasons and regulations are determined.
What I really want is a uniform systematic set of processes that result in consistent decisions that are justified from a science based approach in order to eliminate bias. It's the only way to ensure these decisions are made in the best interest of the wildlife they're supposedly protecting instead of becoming political or self-serving like they often are.
We all need to move past wanting what our personal opinion would dictate. It's great that you have fond memories of YWD, a lot of people do. Why should some positive opinions for YWD justify having it if it's not creating hunters? Or make it exempt from scientific studies to find out it's impact? Why should your opinion as the result of your positive experience be used as a reason to not hold a teal season, where I'm sure many positive experiences would also be made forming opinions to support it?
If we keep encouraging our opinions to matter in how these decisions are reached then we can't complain when other's opinions matter more than ours. The DNR is an agency in the executive branch of our government in charge of managing the natural resources in the best interest of the state's citizens. Citizens, not hunters. In court all citizens have to be treated equally, whether or not they bought a hunting license. Eventually they're going to figure that out. Eventually they and their opinions are going to vastly outnumber us and ours.
It might seem fine to have the popular opinion of duck hunters or the personal opinion of a commissioner stop a teal season now (only because you share the same opinion) but are you going to be fine when it's the popular opinion of the anti-hunting citizen majority to stop all hunting seasons? What about when some extreme liberal gets elected governor and appoints some PETA **** as commissioner....we do live in MN afterall....do you want her being able to use her personal opinion to decide if a season should be opened?
I don't.
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