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<blockquote data-quote="Dean Parisian" data-source="post: 5572362" data-attributes="member: 1011"><p><strong>January 2023</strong></p><p><strong>TO: Region 7 Commissioner William Lane and other FWP Commission members</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>From: Dean Parisian, Montana Non-Resident land-owner, tax payer, 50-year Montana hunter and trapper</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I listened intently last evening, Jan. 4, 2021 to the online meeting at the Region 7 HQ in Miles City conducted by FWP personnel. It was a good meeting, all in attendance were respectful and courteous. Mr. Lane, in 1969 I started work on the Garber Ranch outside of your hometown of Ismay and worked there for four summers. My father was in Law Enforcement with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and retired out of Crow Agency in 1985. We have never met but I know you know well the Garber Land & Livestock property which has been a very good ranch in the Block Management Program. Back then, coyotes were under assault from strychnine "getters", there were few eagles, elk were just getting a good start in the Powder River country, we saw a bighorn ewe once in the Powder River breaks and mule deer and antelope were far plentiful. Fast forward to the good old days of 2022!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Here are my comments:</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>As appointed public officials we all agree that your duty and responsibility is to the resource first and then be accountable to the Montana hunting community for your actions and votes. As a non-resident, we all know that non-Residents pay the freight at FWP ,yet they have zero representation in Montana outside of MOGA. Outside of big-game outfitters there aren't that many things hated in Montana as much as wealthy non-resident landowners. Non-resident landowners control a large amount of land and those lands sustain a tremendous amount of wildlife in the State of Montana, I'm one of those guys. We fawn approximately 80 to 100 whitetails, feed 150 deer year around and provide winter cover for at times, 300 deer on my two mile stretch of the Yellowstone River. Listening to the discussion last evening was eye-opening. The FWP, Big landowners, MOGA, the MT Statutes, the Commission, everyone seems to have an agenda that for some reason, well obvious reasons left here unsaid, don't work entirely together. I heard enough last night to weigh in. The social aspects, the science, the politics, hard to swallow. Who is looking out for the resource? When I went to work on Wall Street in 1982 I learned to follow the money. Some things never change.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dean Parisian, post: 5572362, member: 1011"] [B]January 2023 TO: Region 7 Commissioner William Lane and other FWP Commission members From: Dean Parisian, Montana Non-Resident land-owner, tax payer, 50-year Montana hunter and trapper I listened intently last evening, Jan. 4, 2021 to the online meeting at the Region 7 HQ in Miles City conducted by FWP personnel. It was a good meeting, all in attendance were respectful and courteous. Mr. Lane, in 1969 I started work on the Garber Ranch outside of your hometown of Ismay and worked there for four summers. My father was in Law Enforcement with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and retired out of Crow Agency in 1985. We have never met but I know you know well the Garber Land & Livestock property which has been a very good ranch in the Block Management Program. Back then, coyotes were under assault from strychnine "getters", there were few eagles, elk were just getting a good start in the Powder River country, we saw a bighorn ewe once in the Powder River breaks and mule deer and antelope were far plentiful. Fast forward to the good old days of 2022! Here are my comments: As appointed public officials we all agree that your duty and responsibility is to the resource first and then be accountable to the Montana hunting community for your actions and votes. As a non-resident, we all know that non-Residents pay the freight at FWP ,yet they have zero representation in Montana outside of MOGA. Outside of big-game outfitters there aren't that many things hated in Montana as much as wealthy non-resident landowners. Non-resident landowners control a large amount of land and those lands sustain a tremendous amount of wildlife in the State of Montana, I'm one of those guys. We fawn approximately 80 to 100 whitetails, feed 150 deer year around and provide winter cover for at times, 300 deer on my two mile stretch of the Yellowstone River. Listening to the discussion last evening was eye-opening. The FWP, Big landowners, MOGA, the MT Statutes, the Commission, everyone seems to have an agenda that for some reason, well obvious reasons left here unsaid, don't work entirely together. I heard enough last night to weigh in. The social aspects, the science, the politics, hard to swallow. Who is looking out for the resource? When I went to work on Wall Street in 1982 I learned to follow the money. Some things never change.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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