Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
Thanks for the heads up, but what is it?

division of wildlife requires the purchase of a habitat stamp with the first 2 hunting licenses a year.

also new for 2011, they changed the cost from $5 per license (you buy 2 in a year if you get 2 licenses), to now $10 for 1 habitat stamp but you only have to buy one.

so for most people the $10 a year doesn't change since most of us buy more than 1 license. (think small game combo (fish/hunt) and a big game license.

now they are doubling their money on the people who just buy a single license like a small game of fishing or combo license.

the $200 lifetime stamp made sense for me because I am 25, so it would basically be 20 years of current costs to make my money back, something I will hopefully have no problem doing. but at $300 for a lifetime...that is bullshit. you have to hunt 31 years to save money (of course at current rates without hikes).

now I can see them raising the habitat stamp in 5 years to $15, then in 5 more years to $20. thus my savings will increase with this purchase.

DOW also gets the hikers and bicyclists in a lot of areas where they have to buy a habitat stamp as well. so at least some of the anti-hunters are getting money sucked from them for hunting purposes!