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<blockquote data-quote="scn" data-source="post: 5038217" data-attributes="member: 1859"><p>The answer to your question goes back decades to the TN Game and Fish Commission and later TWRA. Concerned sportsmen largely affiliated with the TN Conservation League (now TN Wildlife Federation) had seen how leaving laws and seasons to politicians was detrimental to modern wildlife management. They lobbied for a system where the Commission set the seasons and bag limits. And, at the same time, they set it up that the Agency would be self funded through license fees and applicable federal aid monies.</p><p></p><p>And, as a whole, it has been wildly successful. If you have lived through the decades of having almost no deer and turkey in this state to where we are now, you would greatly understand the benefit of this system.</p><p></p><p>From my observations on what happens in other states where politics take the forefront on most major decisions for those wildlife agencies, I have ZERO doubt that the TCL was on the money.</p><p></p><p>Is the current system perfect? No. But, I can about guarantee that you won't like the result of it being changed back to where politicians control the purse strings and make all of the decisions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scn, post: 5038217, member: 1859"] The answer to your question goes back decades to the TN Game and Fish Commission and later TWRA. Concerned sportsmen largely affiliated with the TN Conservation League (now TN Wildlife Federation) had seen how leaving laws and seasons to politicians was detrimental to modern wildlife management. They lobbied for a system where the Commission set the seasons and bag limits. And, at the same time, they set it up that the Agency would be self funded through license fees and applicable federal aid monies. And, as a whole, it has been wildly successful. If you have lived through the decades of having almost no deer and turkey in this state to where we are now, you would greatly understand the benefit of this system. From my observations on what happens in other states where politics take the forefront on most major decisions for those wildlife agencies, I have ZERO doubt that the TCL was on the money. Is the current system perfect? No. But, I can about guarantee that you won't like the result of it being changed back to where politicians control the purse strings and make all of the decisions. [/QUOTE]
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