NDOW Director Sells Out Deer and Employees
The truth has now been exposed. For years, Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) has used many excuses for their mismanagement of our deer herds. In 1988, there were 250,000 deer in Nevada. Today, NDOW’s estimates are 107,000 and that number is in actuality probably a lot lower. The excuses that NDOW has used for the past thirteen years are drought, wildfire, bad winter, juniper pinion pine and cheat grass. Of course, NDOW never mentioned predators or other mismanagement for the decline.
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We told you so!
In the last HUNTER’S ALERT newsletter, we told you that the most recent appointment to the Wildlife Commission was certainly not the best person for this position. We gave you many reasons why and now here are a few more. Clint Bentley carried the charge on the wilderness issue in Clark County, even winning some bogus awards for this effort. HUNTER’S ALERT had a representative at one of the first wilderness meetings and from the beginning we could see that Clint Bentley was going to ...
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Another Survey
In October, 2003 NDOW is doing another survey. (NDOW doesn’t know what to do) Three years ago, in October, 2000, a survey requested by the Wildlife Commission was completed. This was a mule deer survey. Sportsmen had to pay approximately $25,000 for this survey.
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Huge Fee Increases for Sportsmen
You can thank the Division of Wildlife and the Wildlife commissioners for sponsoring a $7.5 million fee increase for NDOW in the next two year budget cycle. HUNTER’S ALERT and Nevada Hunters Association opposed these huge increases for many reasons.
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Wildlife commissioners let sportsmen down
The future of Nevada deer hunting is bleak. It has taken years of mismanagement by Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) to destroy our once famous deer herds. And it will take years for these herds to recover. The fault lies with the Wildlife Commission, former administrator Willie Molini and current director Terry Crawforth. Terry Crawforth has held this position for five years. Let’s review his list of non-accomplishments during his tenure.
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Thank you, Humboldt, Eureka and Lander Counties
For those of you who think all politicians are the same, this article should change your opinion. In the 2001 legislative session, HUNTER’S ALERT sponsored Assembly Bill 494. This bill would have given NDOW a boss, something they didn’t have under the jurisdiction of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. There were many other benefits for sportsmen in this bill as well. Any legislative wildlife bill that originates in the Assembly must go to the Natural Resources Comm...
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Who is responsible for the loss of our deer?
Last year’s deer harvest was the lowest in fifty years. Why did this happen? Or a better question yet would be, "Who let this happen?" For fourteen years, NDOW has had their usual five excuses: drought, wildfire, bad winter, juniper-pinion pine and cheat grass. But, alas, they have added some new ones---not their mismanagement or their refusal to do any predator control.
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EVALUATION of Nevada’s Ineffective Politically Appointed Wildlife Commission
Under NRS 501.167, the only requirements to qualify for appointment to serve on the Wildlife Commission is legal-residential status and sportsmen’s representative must have a hunting license without current wildlife violations or convictions. There are no wildlife requirements necessary, just sit there obediently listen and accept all of the well-prepared wildlife experts’ indoctrinated, biologically-biased wildlife management theories and prescribed recommendations…without ch...
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Predators / Nevada Sheep Industry/ Big Game Populations
In 1867, D.C. Wheeler trailed a band of domestic sheep from Oregon to western Nevada. Since that time, there has been some type of predator control conducted in and around sheep herds in Nevada. In 1927, there were reported to be 1,200,000 sheep and 400,000 beef cattle in the state. Each stockman or groups of stockmen fought their own predator problems. After World War One, the federal government took over the predator program. Under the Biological Survey, professional hunters were hired to purs...
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Another Bad Bill
NDOW sponsored Senate Bill 135 which now makes it a felony instead of a gross misdemeanor for killing a big game animal without a tag.
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NDOW Still Out of Control
Where’s the governor, the attorney general and the Wildlife Commission when NDOW tramples over people’s rights? The answer is, they are all out to lunch. They choose to turn their heads when NDOW violates the law. HUNTER’S ALERT told you how NDOW set up one of their own employees. They were illegally searching Bart Tanner’s home and while performing their illegal search, they were illegally wiretapping him. Of course, no one in NDOW was ever punished for their illegal act...
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