The stamp costs have not increased to the rate of inflation or to address the losses in hunter numbers.
The stamps should be setup on a rate of inflation scale and increased off the rate at which they initially started at and raised every 3 years based off inflation.
Another by product could be additional wma or wpa's permits for heavily gunned and quality units, that could fund moist soil or heavily managed, quality properties, with quality opportunities.
If more guys could see what good hunting is, with access to hunt those, more would welcome higher stamp fees and implemented fees on high quality areas, with good opportunities to see quality hunting.
I would have no problem with the stamps going up substantially, as long as how that money was spent had more accountability and transparency, with results measured off of tangible goals.
There are lots of areas within an hour drive of the cities that could be heavily managed for quality hunting, but are left idle.
There's ways to go about increasing quality opportunities, but the dnr and usfws are terrified and to infected with an endemic hold onto the past mentalities that are unable to go against traditions.
With the loss of numbers of waterfowl hunters in Minnesota and increasing challenges, cost is going to increase and quality is going to decrease. We need a way different thought process than people like Dennis Anderson's idealism of being able to roll back the hands of time. That's impossible.
What is possible is to accept the changes and move on with a different thought process or mindset on how to manage what we've got. Amazingly there's still ducks and geese around, despite DA's bold, dumb ass, unwhityy, bull chit comment, that there wasn't going to be any ducks left in after 2020, when he's stuck his blind, ignorant, big headed ego in the Minnesota rivers chit hole's waters expecting it to return to some sort of former glory. It ain't coming back without money and a willingness to see reality for what it is vs a spoiled child who wants what they want with no willingness to open up their eyes or mind to other, different possibilities.
Stagnant, moist bull chit crusts over and is useless. But tilled into the soil, it nourishes the soil and nurtures seeds that grow into something. We need new ideas and seed those into fertile soil. Not the same old same old that doesn't work, with a heels dug into a dried, parched, hard headed, used up landscape of uselessness, by tired, ancient ideologues, blinded to any fresh or ripe for the pickings low hanging fruit.