Craig,
If we are honest, the ideologs don't know, or care about wildlife, to a large degree-this is an agenda driven "good first step" type of thing, driven by politics, or, more correctly, one side of the political spectrum.
Lacking any concrete evidence is no excuse to not wield power over those you consider inferior to yourself, and your mantra. If the costs go up, that drives the poorer folk out of the game, and makes the ultimate goal easier to grasp. Only the folk with skin in the game will care what happens to hunting and shooting.
My heart bleeds for those kids with a single mother, who have managed to get an old shotgun of some sort, and a pair of boots, and talk her into getting up early on a weekend, to drop them off at a WMA, to attempt a little hunting, on their own. How many regulations are too many for that kid? How much money for expendables, like ammunition, is too much? How much leftist drivel has that kid had to listen to, and, ignore, at his school, in order to catch the sunrise on that day afield?
Does anyone have any idea what those kids are up against?
Best,
Ted
