Idaho wildlife management

["bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>]

Here's an early warning about Idaho legislation that will surface this 
year.  While I assume the choice will be difficult, this proposal is 
already earning my award for dumbest idea of the year.

Don Clower (who directed the campaign against the bear protection 
inititative in 1996) has borrowed an idea from Utah.  In Utah, at the 
November election, the voters passed Proposition 5, which was sponsored 
by various hunting groups to stop public input on wildlife regulation.  
Because of the passage of that proposition, any public initiative 
related to hunting or wildlife would have to pass by a 2/3 majority.  
That proposition effectively eliminates direct public involvement in the 
protection of the public's wildlife.

Clower wants to duplicate that proposition in Idaho.  He wants to change 
the Idaho Constitution to read that any initiative dealing with wildlife 
must pass by a 2/3 majority.  

This blatantly-undemocratic idea that the majority doesn't rule is 
especially disgusting when coupled with the Idaho Fish & Game 
Commission's proposal that every taxpayer (not just hunters and anglers) 
should help pay for wildlife management now.  So we will have to pay for 
the management of our wildlife, but we will be denied effective say in 
that management.
BL

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