Hawkeye
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SFW posted this statement on its website today: http://sfw.net/2016/03/02/2492/ I found the following statement to be of particular interest:
"One of the primary attractions to the WHCE is 200 special Utah hunting permits available to the public for a $5 application fee each. The $5 drawing alone raised more than $1 million for Utah conservation this year. One dollar and fifty-cents of each $5 application fee is retained for the Utah Division of Wildlife and its wildlife conservation programs, and $3.50 evenly split between SFW and MDF, all of which is used to bolster wildlife conservation throughout the state of Utah benefiting multiple species. This commitment to utilize 100% of the application fee revenue to support Utah Conservation Initiatives included in the contract that SFW recently signed with the State to distribute expo permits from 2017 to 2021. We will annually disclose how these funds are utilized to benefit Utah wildlife."
Do any of you folks have any insight into what SFW means when it says "100% of the application fee revenue to support Utah Conservation Initiatives"? It sounds like SFW and the DWR may have addressed this issue in their contract that was just recently signed. SFW also states that they will annually disclose how these funds are utilized to benefit wildlife.
So what do you guys think? Is it possible that the DWR and the groups have listened to the public and addressed this problem? Does anybody have any insight into what was agreed to by SFW and the DWR? I submitted a GRAMA request to the DWR requesting a copy of the latest contract but I am still waiting for a response. I would sure like to see this matter resolved. But as the old saying goes, the devil is in the details. Cross your fingers.
-Hawkeye-
"One of the primary attractions to the WHCE is 200 special Utah hunting permits available to the public for a $5 application fee each. The $5 drawing alone raised more than $1 million for Utah conservation this year. One dollar and fifty-cents of each $5 application fee is retained for the Utah Division of Wildlife and its wildlife conservation programs, and $3.50 evenly split between SFW and MDF, all of which is used to bolster wildlife conservation throughout the state of Utah benefiting multiple species. This commitment to utilize 100% of the application fee revenue to support Utah Conservation Initiatives included in the contract that SFW recently signed with the State to distribute expo permits from 2017 to 2021. We will annually disclose how these funds are utilized to benefit Utah wildlife."
Do any of you folks have any insight into what SFW means when it says "100% of the application fee revenue to support Utah Conservation Initiatives"? It sounds like SFW and the DWR may have addressed this issue in their contract that was just recently signed. SFW also states that they will annually disclose how these funds are utilized to benefit wildlife.
So what do you guys think? Is it possible that the DWR and the groups have listened to the public and addressed this problem? Does anybody have any insight into what was agreed to by SFW and the DWR? I submitted a GRAMA request to the DWR requesting a copy of the latest contract but I am still waiting for a response. I would sure like to see this matter resolved. But as the old saying goes, the devil is in the details. Cross your fingers.
-Hawkeye-