Originally Posted By: Carcassman
The fish and wildlife resources you (we) want to harvest depend on that habitat. It would be nice that folks (all of us) who **cked it up pay to fix it up. But, they're not interested which leaves the responsibility to those who want to use the resources.

We could, of course, go entirely to artificial production/game farms where you would pay for what you harvest but at least you you would be assured that what you paid in went directly to what you took out.


I took the class and still have Aldo Leopold's book.

That said, to the extent that many (most?) of our popular saltwater fisheries are on artificially produced stocks yet limited by ESA listed species the habitat aspects which affect ESA recoveries should be a State responsibility to be paid for out of the State's General Fund (for example, replacement of culvert which hinder salmonoid passage).
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