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Originally Posted by Nickt87
Since when do we care so much about the people that care so little???? Screw the idiots that were too lazy to vote
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Amen! It's the information from those that participate that will inform our decisions.
We don't care about those who don't participate. You are missing the points, which are how few do participate and how many resources are wasted trying to get a statistically-valid random sample because so few participate.
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Originally Posted by Nickt87
My biggest concern about this whole circuis is the idea that we're out there asking a bunch of everyday idiots when they want their seasons and how many birds they want to shoot? What happened to scientific research, analysis, and decisions.
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Those are hunters that buy hunting licenses, just like you. Their opinion counts, the same as yours. The science and research are the same as always, and when something is biologically settled, like NOT hunting into February, then we are NOT interested in hunter-opinion. But often that science and research leads us to biologically-equivalent choices such as:
Do you prefer a 30-day season with a 3-bird bag limit for scaup, or a 60-day season with a 1-bird bag?
This year we will likely have a choice between 107/1 or 88/2 or 74/3 for specklebelly geese.
Zones and splits, season dates, WMA hunting options, regulating spinning-wing decoys, closing shooting hours at noon, are all decisions that are NOT strictly biological and can be reasonably informed by collecting hunter-opinion data. Hunting regulations seem to have a much larger affect on hunters than they do on the population dynamics of ducks.