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Thursday. November 20.1975
University Daily Kansan
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Hunting season . . .
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are hunting without a license, hunting in closed season and using illegal hunting
Fines vary with the county. Revenue goes to the county schoo. *und, not to the commission.* The commission is financed entirely through the sale of hunting and fishing licenses and a federal excise tax on national wildlife. This tax annually yields more than $4 million to be used for wildlife restoration projects.
A record 16.4 million Americans spent $143 million on state hate statements last year, according to Wildlife Service. A total of $92.5 million of the Fish and Wildlife Service's fiscal 1976 budget of $244 million comes from sports场的售票 sale of federal waterfowl (duck) stamps.
IN ADDITION, GOVERNMENT surveys indicate hunters and fishermen annually put about $7 billion into the economy to support them. Agriculture estimates that nine out of 10 Americans participate in outdoor recreations that are paid for by hunters and fishermen.
As more hunters vie for diminishing land area, overcrowded conditions become more
Bob Robel, professor of environmental biology at K-State, said that the main goal of the course was to improve agricultural activity amining for increased production, but that there was a solution.
"We need more of a financial com-
mbitment by the actual hunter to the landowner, like paying to hunt, therefore giving the farmer the initiative to retain land for hunting." Robert said.
ROBEL IS INVOLLED IN applied fish and game research at K-State that deals with both game and nongame birds. He is studying habitat evaluation and habitat management and could be thought hunting had a legitimate place among recreation, like baseball.
"It's not unnatural to have hunting," he said. "Hunters play the same role as the elephant."
Many farmers and ranchers themselves hunt, as does Clifford Houghton, Kansas Farm Bureau state committeeman from Tipton. Houghton, a rancher, said he thought the farmer and the hunter failed to look at the problem the same way.
"Fence-to-fence farming is pretty hard on the habitat, but the farmer's got to cash in on everything he can, so you can't blame him either." he said.
Houghton said he thought that in many cases, wildlife didn't mean that much to the farmer. Bushel production is often more important, he said.
HOUIGHT HEADS A GROUP of landowners will make to more private land open to public use for deer hunting. They may also sell their land prior to regular deer season, in which only landowners would pursue deer. Following this, landowner participants would make their land available to regular hunters on a season-by-season basis. The season. Houghton said the group was
presently trying to convince the Game Commission of the value of its proposal
Mary Wiersma, research assistant for public affairs from the Kansas Farm Bureau in Manhattan, also defends the benefits of the intensification of agriculture.
The same government calling for all-out production is the same government making攻势.
Wierma pointed out that often the farmers who took pride in their hedgears and ground cover for game protection were the ones whose land was most abused by hunters.
"At what point do we stop producing food and fiber to maintain a game population for society's demand for recreational purposes?" she asked.
ALTOUGH THE NUMBER of hunters is growing, the percentage of game taken by hunters is increasing, and estimates that in the 1974-75 season, 1,772,000 quail, 1,688,000 daboos, 584,000 pheasant, 355,000 cottontail rabbits, 346,000 squirrels and 24,900 prairie chickens were there.
This season limits were lowered on peasant from four to three birds and on quail from eight to six. The commission also has decided to save a $2 increase in the fee for peasant licensing, starting in 1978, and to require licenses from who are now exempt.
These actions are being taken to combat a financial pinch. The commission already is on notice from the state budget office that it must cut back its requests.
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