Politics: Game commissions are no longer just there to protect game; they exist to make money for employees through schemes which make the most cash. Think of it this way; When you buy a hunting license with an upland game stamp; your payments to the Game Commission is over. BUT if you put in for a deer permit, turkey permit, elk, sheep, etc., you pay again and again and again.
So, with protected raptors, insecticides that kill all the bugs, farming practices fence row to fence row (or, more likely in farming country, NO fences, there just isn't room for birds any more. It isn't profitable for most states. (South Dakota is the shining example on the hill of what CAN be done.)
Like millions of old-timers, I grew up thinking pheasants would be forever.....now.....
Sam Ogle, Lincoln NE
