Watching the commission meeting right now. A lot of comments regarding the season dates being too early.

A lot of people that don't like SELA being in the East Zone as well. They want the second saturday opener, not the east zone opener.

And by "a lot", I mean of those that commented. 360 total comments.

Had to leave that site. TheDuckSlayer is aweful

Rice farms are going in the east zone, SELA stays in Coastal Zone. Yakupzack only one opposed, on the grounds that he felt the commission should wait to make the decision in April, which would have left the current zones in place in 2016, making the decision for 2017-2020.

Is it over? I just logged into to listen and hear nothing but it say's its still ongoing.

Edit: Never mind, came back on.

Yeah, they had taken a short break. I went to lunch at that point, so I don't know what they decided on with that last item related to funding towards the breeding grounds.

I think Yak's thoughts were in the right place. He felt like there were very hasty decisions being made by everyone involved, and that hunter's opinions may have changed if the season were allowed to run its course and a decision made in April. It seems the only change of heart would have come from rice hunters, but based on what Larry said, it wasn't the rice hunters who were calling for the change in the zones. It was the rice farmers.

I think most people are going to get what the wanted. The only question is if the early season in the coastal becomes the norm rather than the exception. That was something else that Yak pressed--that the commission needs to make a concerted effort to set the season on the Second Saturday in November. Some years it would be earlier, some it would be later, but it would be consistent. Some may not like it one year, but it would come around the next year.

That is the first time I've actually heard Larry speak. I can't imagine waterfowl in Louisiana being in better hands than they are right now. Hearing him talk about how he does not work for the rice farmers, he works for hunters....I don't think you can ask anymore than that. He may not always make decisions that are popular with everyone, but he is trying to do what is best. I like that.

100% going to DU.

As someone who goes to many public meetings for work, these are pretty bad. This was the first one I've listened to.

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Haha, yeah, I felt like it was a bit disorganized compared to the CPRA meeting I went to a few weeks back.

It also didn't seem very professional to me that the guy kept referring to Bart as "Commissioner Yak". I understand he has an unusual last name, but this is a formal meeting. Use the guy's whole freakin name! Geez.

Wasn't there some discussion at the last one as to whether it should be split between DU and Delta? What was the swaying factor? Wish I would have stuck it out and listened to that part.

I'm not really educated about this but would like to find out what performance goals they are talking about in relation to receiving funding.

Made me feel good when Larry said that while I was listening

The September minutes outline the criteria (page 12).

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/d...ingminutes.pdf

Even more reason not to donate.

I donated an extra $50 with your name on it.


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Awesome. Maybe I'll win a gun!

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Nope. All you get is a fleece sweater vest.


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Ah. Oh well. Some idiot will buy it from me.

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Best bang for the buck. They get matching funds and have the capacity to actually do work on the ground with very little overhead costs.

If they spent the money here, people would get upset if it was spent in a portion of the state they dont hunt. Cant please everyone, send it up to where the majority of our ducks come from

Yeah I mean, since you likely bought a license this year, they already got some of your dollars.

Zackly

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Dude knows his stuff. Never seen him stumped on a question and is always available for questions on any outdoor website.

One thing that I think should change is the wording on the zones. Instead of coastal, east, west, just call them Zones 1, 2, 3. Looks silly when parts of western La is in the East zone and the SE Louisiana coast is not in coastal zone.

Semantics. Nobody cares about that stuff. lol

The numbers would confuse me more than anything. Stupid deer season with its 10 zones. Screw that. Give me a name that I can use. Numbers are so impersonal. I need a name when I get mad at someone for my season not being good!

I'm happy with it. Especially if east opens a week later than coastal.

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please tell me why the intercoastal waterway is not the north boundary of the coastal zone?

these zones are unreal...

what if i have a rice field south of 14 in throwell and one in welsh? they are in two different zones, shooting the same birds, but open on different dates...

makes perfect sense!

It's a damn shame they didn't give some of that money to a science based duck hunters organization like Delta Waterfowl. Why not let Delta and DU do some good with those funds?

Delta and DU are not competing organizations. DU is much larger than Delta and has the capacity to get on the ground work done. DU is able to quadruple the money with matching. Instead of $1 million going to breeding grounds, there is $4 million. Very low overhead for a non-profit also.

I never said they were competing. I'm active in the Delta Organization and have a DU membership.

DU will do a lot of good with that money. I just think Delta should be given the opportunity to demonstrate what they can do as well.

Not sure if it happened this year again, but I know DU and Delta both gave proposals to the commission a while back as to what they would do with the duck stamp money and DU blew them out the water with their proposal, which is why they got it. Don't think they are allowed to split the money.

My guess would be that because there is a decent amount of tidal marsh north of the intracoastal

The commission could have awarded some of the money to Delta. I know Delta did submit a proposal and it didn't get blown out of the water. Delta does significant work that helps ducks and duck hunters. Not saying DU doesn't, as I've said before they do a lot of good work as well.

Hahaha. Non profit.

No doubt they do good work, but DU is getting 4x matching funds. Hard to compete with that

What will be the proposed dates for geese since there is different zoning now?

I think the problem for Delta is that they don't have near the support that DU does down here. That might sound strange, but DU is probably more recognizable down here first of all. And DU at least does some work in Louisiana, something that I don't believe Delta does.

I support both, because I think both do good work. But I think Delta is going to get its support from people that believe the breeding grounds is where all the money should be going, and not everyone feels that way.

the amount of tidal marsh north of the intercoastal is a drop in the bucket compared to rice fields south of hwy 14.

Date's will not be proposed until January I believe.