Minnesota's Sportsmen's Legislative Issues
 Dedicated
Funding: Pass it - Add a Council!
When
sportsmen began the effort to dedicate
a portion of sales taxes to fish, game
and wildlife ,Senate and House versions
have always included a system of
oversight. This would increase the
level
of support for the measure by
sportsmen.
As
Star and Tribune Outdoors Columnist
Dennis Anderson wrote in August:
“Here's hoping such a council is
established in statute in the next
legislative session, so hunters and
anglers going to the polls in November
2008 to vote for dedicated funding can
do so assured they - and fish and
wildlife - don't get ripped off,”.
“Planning
begins for dedicated funding
oversight”, Outdoor
News by Joe Albert: “By
the time the Legislature reconvenes in
February, sportsmen and others hope to
have a - [governance model] -
to go along with bills awaiting
votes in the House and Senate,”.
In
an October in a Grand Forks Herald
editorial: “The sales-tax money
wouldn't go to Department of Natural
Resources enforcement, for example.
Instead, much of it would go to a
citizen-legislator commission for
distribution. The [commission] would
oversee the funding and use it to buy,
enhance and conserve fish and wildlife
habitat,”.
ACT
NOW
Dedicated
Funding: Sportsmen's Matching Grants!
Included in Senate Majority Leader
Larry Pogemiller’s SF 6 was a
sportsmen’s and conservation matching
grants program. Called the Conservation
Partners Program. This would provide
matching grants up to $20,000 for local
projects done largely by volunteers. Ask
legislators to include SF6 Conservation
Partners Program in dedicated funding.
ACT
NOW
 Stop
the effort: to BAN Minnesota Dove
Hunting.
During
the last week of the 2007 Minnesota
Legislative Session two bills were
introduced (one in the House and the
other in the Senate) to eliminate
Minnesota’s dove season. Twelve
legislators have now signed their names
onto these bills to deny Minnesota
hunters and their children the
opportunity to hunt the most popular
game bird in the United States.
ACT
NOW
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