Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Revival of a Bad Idea.

The last time we had a lot of right wing firebrands in the Wyoming legislature, they tried to privatize wildlife.

Well, of course, they're back at it:

2025

STATE OF WYOMING

25LSO-0576

 

 

 

SENATE FILE NO. SF0118

 

 

Landowner hunting tags-amendments.

 

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Pearson, Boner, Ide, McKeown, Smith, D and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Brady, Heiner, Lien, McCann, Schmid, Webber and Wharff

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing landowners to sell their landowner hunting licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

 

Section 1.  W.S.  231302(h) is amended to read: 

 

231302.  Powers and duties.

 

(h)  For purposes of promoting the maintenance of wildlife habitat and attaining wildlife management objectives pursuant to W.S. 231103 and in addition to duties prescribed under paragraph (a)(xiv) of this section, the commission shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the issuance of elk, deer, antelope and turkey hunting licenses to Wyoming landowners without subjection to prescribed means of competitive public issuance.  Fees assessed for licenses authorized under this subsection shall be equal to fees prescribed under W.S. 232101(j) for each species for which the license is issued. A landowner who has obtained a hunting license under this subsection shall be authorized to sell the hunting license to another person in accordance with the following:

 

(i)  Licenses issued to anyone other than the landowner, including immediate family of the landowner, shall not be eligible for sale under this subsection;

 

(ii)  The purchaser shall be subject to all applicable statutes and regulations concerning hunting licenses pursuant to this subsection;

 

(iii)  The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations that govern the sale of hunting licenses and reissuance of the hunting license to another person once they have been issued by the department, pursuant to this subsection;

 

(iv)  Licenses that are sold to another person authorized by this subsection shall be exempt from a landowner coupon payment pursuant to W.S. 233105(b).

 

Section 2.  The game and fish department shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

 

Section 3.  

 

(a)  Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2025.

 

(b)  Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

 

(END)

 

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SF0118

 

FWIW, as a stockman, the mantra that was put out by the sponsor, Laura Pearson, that "ranchers are hurting right now" is  complete bullshit. Time are really good for ranchers right now.

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Sunday, August 19, 1923. Ada Delutuk Blackjack.

Ada Delutuk Blackjack was rescued from Wrangel Island.  A Native Alaskan, she had survived alone on the island since September 15, 1921.  The only native member of an expedition to the Arctic island, which sought to claim it for Canada, she had been hired as a cook and because she was good at sewing.  The other members of the expedition died on the remote island or disappeared seeking to walk the 90 miles to Siberia to obtain help.


She was not completely alone. The expedition's cat, Victoria, also survived.

She took the job to raise money for her son's treatment for tuberculosis, and in fact upon her retrun moved to Seattle so that he could be treated there. Divorced from her first husband prior to the expedition, she remarried and ultimately returned to Alaska and died in Palmer at age 85 in 1983.

The object of a Canadian claim to the island was quixotic at best, as it is well off of Siberian Russia.  The large island features flora and fauna, including large numbers of polar bears, but remains uninhabited by humans.  It is believed the world's last surviving mammoth populations lived on the island, dying out only perhaps as recently as 2,000 years ago.  Musk ox and reindeer have been introduced to the island for some weird reason, and wolves have reintroduced themselves.