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Originally Posted by Duck Butter
Yeah my situation is a different situation I reckon. To answer your question I have never seen any road grading or road improvements happening during the hunting season. Seems they prep the roads before the season and then wiat til after (makes sense I guess). The technicians that normally do this are probably busy doing something else during the hunting season (or took off to hunt themselves  ) Feel like it would be pointless because it would get torn up again real soon anyways and folks hunting would probably not want people on big equipment fixing trails while they are out hunting? don't know
as far as budgets go I do know that for federal refuges, money is allocated by usage. More users of the refuge gives you a higher budget. Would think its similar with state WMAs |
I am a bowhunter so I usually see these places at the very beginning of the hunting seasons and there are very little improvements from 1 year to the next in most cases... They do sometimes smooth out the roads and trails but Grading costs almost nothing from the Acquisitions and Maintenance budget... the equipment is already there (unless it needs replacement or repairs) and the salary of the individual running it comes from another budget.
I suspect that you are correct on the division of money by usage... If that is the case then West Bay should have a pretty healthy budget and that is a place that I've spent quite a bit of time in... there is no maintenance going on there either... haha