WestAda SchoolDistricts second at-tempt in sevenmonths topass a bond suc-ceededTuesday,with 71.6percentof thevote.School officials said thebond isneeded to

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A generation-old debate overhowto reward landowners for givingwildlife ahomehas turnedinto a fightover thenature of hunting and the independence of the IdahoFish andGameCom-mission.The commissionwants theLegislature to let it raisemoremoney tomanage Idahowildlife; landownerswant to be able to sell the special hunting tags the state gives them.ReporterRockyBarker explores this clashoverone of Idahosmost cherished traditions.

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For 76 years the IdahoFish andGameCommission has sought to re-duce the role of politics inwildlifemanagement.But this year, the six-memberpan-

el finds itself atoddswith landown-ers,whohave gone to the IdahoLeg-islature seeking the ability to sell thedeer and elk tags they get in appreci-ation for the role their landplays inmaintaining Idahowildlife.HouseMajorityLeaderMikeMoyle saidthatwithout this andotherprovi-sions, theDepartmentofFish andGames request to increase huntingand fishing fees isdead for this year.Idahohunting and fishing groups

oppose allowing landowners to selltags for thousandsof dollars,whichthey say is essentially letting individ-ualsprofitprivately fromwhat isconsidered apublic resource.These

sporting groups are preparing for an-othermarchon theCapitol, like thehundredsof hunters and anglerswho rallied inFebruary toprotestproposals to transferof federal landto the state.The six-member commission, es-

tablishedbyvoter initiative in 1938, isconsideringwithdrawing its innova-tive feeproposaluntil next year if itcant get a cleanbill thatdoesnthave the landowner tag sale andoth-erprovisions attached..Tome this is just another exam-

ple of legislative overreach, saidMarkDoerr, ofKimberly, a Fish andGame commissioner for theMagicValley regionwho is also the ownerofPrecisionAviation inTwinFalls.

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BERLIN The headlines wouldsuggest Europe is under siege: Thou-sands of Germans march against thecontinents Islamization. Frenchreaders flock to read a novel about aMuslim president who imposes Sharialaw on their country. Commentatorswarn darkly about an encroaching ageof Eurabia in the wake of the Paristerror attacks.

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in 2011 predicting that EuropesMuslim populationwill almost doubleto nearly 57million by 2030, from just

under 30 million in 1990. That mayseem like a lot, but it still means thatEuropes Muslim population wouldonly increase from 4.1 percent to 7.8percent, according to the Pew paper.Moreover, thePewreport says that theperiod of greatest growth in Islamicpopulations is alreadypast.

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ROCKYBARKER/ rbarker@idahostatesman.comPatCudmore spentacareerat the IdahoDepartmentofFishandGame seeking to improve relationsbetween sportsmenand landowners,buthesaysmanyof todays large landownerswant to sell thepublicswildlife toboost theiroperationsadevelopment thathe sayswouldchange thenatureofhunting forever.Here, he inspectsagatemarkedwithano-trespassing sign southofBoise.

But thenumbers fall far shortofMuslimsdominating Europeanytime soon.

Muslimwomenwalk ina street inDuisburg,Germany,a sign thatEu-

ropes Islamicpopulationhas indeedrisenover the last twodecades,and

continues togrow.TheAssociated Press file

$1millionAnnualrevenue thecommis-sionhopestoraiseby increas-ingmany licenses$1 to$6peryear,startingin2016.

22percentIncrease incostssince thelast increase in2005.

558Departmentemployees.

$95millionDepartmentsannualbudget.

40percentShareofbudget fromlicensefees.Theother60percentcomes fromexcise taxesonhuntingandfishinggear,con-tractswithbusinessesandthefederal government.

330,000Approximatenumberofpeo-plewhobuy Idahohuntingandfishing licensesannually.

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Sometimes,a bar fightis just abar fightBYSAMUELRICHARDRUBINRecently, our office defended

one of twomen chargedwith afederal hate crime arising in aBoise strip club. Itwas the first

federal prosecutionunder thisparticularstatute in Idaho.Bothof the accusedwerefoundnot guilty ap-parently by a jurywho sawthis to be

nothingbut a barroombrawl.This isonly the latest example

in anunending streamof cases inwhichpolice andprosecutorsstretch the application of criminallaws as far as creativeminds canimagine, pursuing federal anglesin attempts towin the harshestpossible punishment.Unfortunately, even theocca-

sional judicial setbackdoesnotseem todeter thenextprosecutorfrom casting adivining rod intothebottomless seaof federal crim-inal provisions theynowhaveclose to 5,000 available to themto inventnewtheoriesof prosecu-tion.This problemmanifests itself

inmany contexts, sometimes bor-dering on the surreal.Considerthe case against JohnYates, acommercial fishermanwho be-came the target of one of themostmisplaced applications ofwhite-collar criminal law.The federal statutes inquestion

weredesigned tocombat thewhite-collarcriminalWallStreetandoil executiveswhoattempt todestroypotentially incriminatingpaper trailsandotherevidence.ThinkEnronorWorldCom.Instead,Mr.Yates foundhim-

self in deepwater after anofficerwith theFlorida Fish andWildlifeConservationCommissionboard-ed his boat in 2007.They looked athis catchof about 3,000 fish, de-termined that 72 red grouperweretoo small, and issuedYates a statecivil citation.The smallestofthese offending fishwas 18.75inches, missing themarkby 1.25inches.However,whenYates re-turned toport andofficials in-spected his catch again, some-thingwas fishy they foundonly69 (insteadof 72)undersized fish.Three years later,Yateswaschargedwith violating the Sar-banes-OxleyAct bydestroyingtheundersized fish to impede,obstruct, and influence the inves-tigation andproper administra-tion of the catching of undersizedred grouper.Hewas convictedand sentenced to 30days in prisonfollowedby three yearsof super-vised release.A federal appealscourt upheld his conviction andthe SupremeCourt agreed to re-viewhis case.Harvesting undersized fish is

not a crime.Rather, it is a civilviolation punishable by a fineand possible suspension of afishing license.However,Mr.Yates had apparently ordered hiscrew to toss the undersized fishand replace themwith legal ones.As such hewas chargedwith a

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HOWWEGOTHEREFish and Game has not

had an increase in huntingand fishing fees for morethan a decade. It says itneeds to look at a fee in-crease and other new rev-enues to be able to keep upwith needs for managingIdaho wildlife for huntersand anglers as well as bird-watchers, hikers and otherswho appreciate Idahos out-doors and animals but whodont buy licenses or tags.Fish and Game proposes

to increase the price of a li-cense between $1 and $6 peryear, starting in 2016. But itwould encourage casualhunters and anglers to buylicenses every year bypromising toholdoff any in-crease for license holderswho buy licenses annually.The commission hopes theproposal can boost licensesales by 10percent by givingintermittent license buyersthe incentive to buy everyyear.But theHouse Resources

and Conservation Commit-tee nearly killed the bill ear-lier this year, agreeing toprint i.e., introduce it only after Moyle supportedit. Now hes working withother lawmakers in theHouse and the Senate on anew bill.That billwould notjust allow ranchers to sellthe tags they get in recogni-tion of the wildlife that re-sides part of the year ontheir land, but also requirethe commission to sell tagsto the highest bidder forsome big game, as it nowdoes for bighorn sheep.It also would change the

big-game tag lottery systemto give hunters who apply,but dont win a tag, bonuspoints that increase theirodds of getting a tag infuture lotteries.But the pay-to-play provi-

sions concernwildlife advo-cates who want to protectthe open-to-everyone tradi-tion of hunting and fishing.

The risk is sportsmenwill lose their voice inwildlife management, saidWill Naillon, a Fish andGame commissioner fromChalliswho isaminingenvi-

ronmental specialist.

APPRECIATINGLANDOWNERSAt issue is the section of

Idaho code that establishedthe commission in 1938.Hunting, fishing and trap-ping rules were placedunder the commissionersauthority because it is in-convenient and impracticalfor the Legislature of thestate of Idaho to administersuchpolicy.But Republican Sen. Bert

Brackett, a rancher fromRogerson, points to the lastline of the code section:The commission is not au-thorized to change suchpol-icy but only to administerit.That, he said, means the

Legislature should makepolicy on issues such as thesale of landowner tags,whichhe supports.Fish and Games 27-year-

old Landowner Apprecia-tion Program allocates aportion of controlled-hunttags to a lottery exclusivelyfor landowners.The pro-gram rewards them for pro-viding habitat for deer, elkandpronghorn.The special hunts inunits

where no general hunting ispermitted are prized bysportsmen and landowners.To enter the lottery, a

landowner must have atleast 640 acres in that area;landownerswith 5,000 acresor more can get anadditional entry in the lot-tery.All eligible landownerscanget leftover tags for theirarea on a first-come, first-served basis after the lotteryis over.Landownerswhodraw an

appreciation tagcangive thetag to another person, butthey cannot sell the tags.In 2014, the commission

considered a proposal toeliminate the lotteryand justgive tags to eligiblelandowners based on howmuch habitat they provide.That proposal also wouldhave given landowners theright to sell the tags.In some areas, such as the

Bennett Hills southeast ofMountain Home, a lack ofpublic access has resulted inlarge trophy mule deer,which could bringthousands of dollars for thetags on the open market.Landowners would have toprovide access to hunterswith tags in those areas.

Forty percent of the tagsin Unit 45, which includesthe Bennett Hills, alreadygoes to landowners.The Fish andGameCom-

mission got resistance frommany hunters who opposedanysalesofwildlifeandhalt-ed consideration of the planin 2014until the commissioncould find consensus on theissue,Naillon said.Whether its the depart-

ment or the landownerspocketing the money, thesellingof tagsatmarket rateschanges the nature ofAmer-icanhunting from a sport forall to a sport catering to asmall group that can affordto pay more, said Pat Cud-more, the now-retired Fishand Game employee whostarted landownerprograms.

Were making it a richmans sport, saidCudmore,nowpresidentof theNampachapter of Quail Forever, aconservation group.But Brackett said selling

wildlife is alreadyhappeningwith landown-ers selling trespass rights tohunt on their land for thou-sands of dollars and thengiving the appreciation tagsaway free.Selling the tags, Brackett

said, is a much moreorderly process than sellingaccess,he said.

RANCHERSDIFFERWildlife belongs to all the

people of Idaho, and allhunters should get an equalchance for Idahos prizedbig-game animals, saidMichael Gibson, executivedirector of the IdahoWildlife Federation. But asimportant as protectingequal access to tags, he said,iskeeping thedecision-mak-ing power with the commis-sion and the experts in itsdepartment, not with thepoliticians in the Legisla-ture.

We support the fee-in-crease bill, but we support aclean bill without riders onit,Gibson said.Republican Sen. Steve

Bair, a farmer from Black-foot, is frustrated that thecommissiondidntacton tagsales in 2014. Several sum-mers ago, he said, a herd ofmore than 60 elk came frompublic land into his hayfieldand ate so much hay hecouldnt harvest a secondcrop. He estimated the lossat $13,000.

To me, its fair for

landowners to be compen-sated for feeding the stateswildlife,Bair said.Republican Rep. Merrill

Beyeler, a rancher fromLeadore, said he has alwaysgiven hunters who ask per-mission to hunt his land.Hedoesnt want or need to selltagsor access, he said.

Someday, Imay need thesupport of sportsmen tocontinue to use publiclands,Beyeler said.So far,Moyle hasnt intro-

duced the new bill with thetag-sale provisions. ButCommissionerDoerr said ifa bill with tag sales andbonus-points does emerge,thecommissionmayconsid-er waiting until next year togo for the fee increase.Thatwould force them to opposethe current bill calling forthe increase.At least one sportsmens

group, Twin Falls Sports-men for Fish andWildlife, isadvocating a delay for an-other year to get consensusonall of the issues, saidPres-ident ScottAllan.Formany rural Idaho leg-

islators, landowner tags arean especially tough issue.For 25 years, sportsmen

and landowners have beenunable to find commonground.The IdahoFarmBu-reau presses the landownerside, while sportsmensgroupsarevocalagainst sell-ingwildlife.

Its a difficult issue forme, said Republican Sen.Dean Cameron of Rupert,who describes himself as asportsman.Ihavelandownerconstituents, and I have a lotofsportsmeninmydistrict.

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Statesman fileHunters joinedother sportsmen inFebruaryataCapitol rallyagainstproposals to transfer federal lands in Idaho to the state. Ifabill is introduced to let landowners sell tags they receive ina special recognitionprogram, thehuntinggroups say theyllmarchon theCapitolagain.

Rockyhunts forelkanddeeronpri-vate land inBoiseCoun-ty.Hegrewuponafarmwherehechasedoff trespassinghunterswhodidntgetpermis-sion.Hes theStates-mansenvironment/ener-gy reporterandco-au-thor,withKenRetallic, ofTheWingshootersGuide to Idaho.

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