A synopsis for you texas folks. I hope your state never ends like this.
The state of Fl buys millions and millions of acres of swamp land, old ranches and state "deemed" needed land. All in the name of "water management and easement areas. They buy Billions and Billions of dollars worth of land with tax payer money. Bought from the pockets of every tax dollar in Fl.
Then it cannot be touched by anybody. The open a few limited areas for hiking and horseback riding.
Then in the goodness of there heart....the "allow" hunters to hunt hogs on 1/2000 of the land they own, that we paid for and charge us $50 for 3 days access out of the whole year. That you have to draw over the computer on a first come first serve basis.Because the hogs become "too much to handle".
BTW this is the only hunting allowed on Millions of acres because the hogs are a nuisance. And the permits sold out in less than 6 minutes.
Sounds like a great deal for Fl hunters HUH?
Well said cajunl... the way I see it is they are using the land as their own private pulp wood plantation... they don't give a chit about protecting anything... clear cut it all, kill all the hardwood, and plant money pine.... only let hunters in when the deer/hogs begin to damage saplings... all about the money....
I've got water management land butting up to every single place I hunt... NOTHING is done with it other than being managed for pine.
I've tried going the legal route and formally requesting "trapping rights" to those properties for over 10 years and it is a farce... I have been lied to over and over and over again... I last was told by the director of resources that the USDA had rights on the properties I was interested in... SO... I went straight to the USDA office in Gainesville that I personally do work for... THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY RECORD OF USDA TRAPPERS ANYWHERE IN THEIR RECORDS.
...using our hard earned tax dollars to yank our own land out from beneath our feet... make a chit pile of money off of it... just to raise our taxes again because they blew it all and say they need more...
F#@K THEM. F#@K the bureaucrat manipulation by a few corporate A-HOLES looking to pad the wallet of those that paid the way for them to be in office.
I HATE our current government to say the least... and I'll be DAMNED if I'm gonna give them $$$$ to hunt what rightfully belongs to the people.
