Ours is a disapointment , lazy employees that dont care - Hire on and do as little as possible. Our fish and wildlife areas are mere shadows of what they were 20-30 years ago. Ever increasing license fees and less and less opportunities and game.

Wi Outdoors, see how some of the people on here try to turn it on you as if it's your fault, or as if you don't have a right to complain, when people who were hired to do a job are incompetent? Pathetic.

I wear big boy pants. I don't get upset at any criticism.

The NRB is probably where I should be putting blame too.....deer hunting framework is poor. They had too many deer tags made available for many years now. Slaughtered population in many places. Baiting ban is b.s. mismanaged cwd (wasted lots of money for nothing.) Wolves are a problem. Spring meetings dont change some of those issues and are slow to get change. Politicians in charge who know nothing about the outdoors.

Biggest issues here at Maine inland fisheries and wildlife are Lynx and no Sunday hunting.

Kdwp sux.

I’m good with ours. The only dealings I have with them is when I need an otter tagged.

I think they could do better with the deer management.

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I do, At times I work with younger kids (20's and early '30's) that have gone to college and graduated with a degree in some sort of natural resource management and they can't get jobs in the field. My Niece has a PhD in aquatic entomology and has tried for several years and nothing. There are way more people looking for jobs in the natural resource fields than there are jobs. Myself I started college with the aim of getting a degree as a wildlife biologist. After I figured out that the odds of getting a job was very slim to none I dropped out and went into a different field that had lots of openings.

I know a guy who applied for a internship in WI to study wolves. Mind you an internship, very poor pay and bottom of the rung type of job. He said that there were people with PhD's applying for the same position, with just a BS degree he had no chance.

Lots of people out there to pick from, I suspect that there is a bias that the ones who do the hiring look for others with the same mindset. Another words if the boss is a member of the Sierra club, Audubon Society and PETA someone who is a member of the NRA, Trout Unlimited and Pheasants Forever will be passed over early in the selection.

I gotta disagree with you on that one. While having a gun hunt during the rut might not affect non bow hunters or individuals who hunt on private land, fellas like me who bow hunt on public land would immediately have our stands ruined by (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)'s out doing drives for does.

Liberals who appoint Liberals who hire Liberals

Fishing Mn 101. 10,000 lakes, and yet they micro manage SO MANY!
how bout this...., state daily limit is (whatever), let people fish!!!
If one lake starts feeling pressure, people will move on to another lake, repeat.

This stupid crap about colloring,tagging bears in Mn is down right sickening. Bears follow food. Simple. If food is scarce, they travel to find it.

Heart rate monitors. Lol. Seem like they " find" something new bout every year so they can " study" it. $$$
Wolves. Oh boy.. time for the upper ups in the Mn DNR to tell the feds to (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) off.!

Lynx. Oh for joy. A few have made thier way into our state. Let's now add more regulations to help them thrive here while pushing people out of trapping because of said over bearing regulations.
CWD surveillance zones. No feeding, salt/ mineral blocks,ect, while I watch almost daily deer licking each other.

Here's an idea Mn DNR, how's about doing something IMPORTANT like studying why pollinators are in such rapid decline?
Perhaps ENFORCE The buffer zone law Dayton

put in place?

DNR coffers would fill up right quick

Yeah, actually I think ours are heading in the right direction. Been seeing a lot of improvements on our WMA’s. Our seasons are pretty good. Our turkeys are in decline, but I think they’re heading the right direction with that as well. And for the most part our LEO’s are really honest and thorough in their work. Some are even fun to mess with, lol.

Many in the DNR are anti consumptive and don't think anyone should make money off any flora or fauna. In many states if trapping was outlawed the powers that be would be good with that.

I’m a college professor training young wildlife professionals

That's fine,but there's A world of difference between the mindset of yesterday and today in wildlife management in most states.I'm 62,and I was fortunate enough to see the old guard and unfortunate enough to see the transition to today's mentality.When I started hunting and trapping in the early '70's I had complete faith in our DNR and now I have none.A good many of their decisions are now based on social science and not wildlife management science.

Maryland DNR / NRP has a ways to go for improvement in personnel knowledge, training, efficiency, enforcement application and stop hiring from the "concrete jungle".

I guess I don't see myself as a (this word is unacceptable on trapper man) but I like doing drives and making meat
how about this , if your county issues 3+ doe tags , bow hunting is earn a buck leave the seasons as they are.

Pretty hard to deny this right here........same bs in forestry management as well ....

I have a degree in Natural Resources with emphasis in forestry. My sophomore year, I worked for the USFS out of Salem for the summer. My Junior year, I was recruited for an internship out of the same office. The carrot was there would be two of us in the internship and one of us would be offered a forestry position after graduation for the Mark Twain district. This was 90-91 timeframe.

The other candidate was from the Virgin Islands. Great guy and we knew each other from class. He was very smart and we matched up close as far as GPA. Only problem was the internship was to survey and establish new plots for short leaf pine in the Sinken Experimental Forest. Rudy hated snakes. After the third encounter with copperhead in the first couple weeks, Rudy quit showing up for work. I finished the summer work with the help of an 80+ year old gentleman who did part time work.

Long story made short, I was brought in to help groom Rudy for the job. Everyone had amnesia about the promise made. I learned a valuable lesson and went to work in the private industry where there were no quotas. Best thing that ever happened.

That same mentality and hiring practices are what is wrong with the government. It is not the most qualified, it is the one that checks the most boxes.