Phil Kelley wondered:
> >Why feel funny doing a wildlife recovery program from a tax on "guns and
> >ammunition".

And Don Baccus replied:
> While I hate to speak to others, it probably feels funny because the premise
> of the tax was to conserve game species.
[snip]

> Work on non-game species funded by P-R dollars is great, but we should all
> recognize it is funded that way because in many cases there are no
alternatives.
[snip]

> That's a very good reason to feel funny. Scott shouldn't feel funny
> because hunter
> dollars pays for his work. Scott should (and, I hypothesize, does) feel
> funny because
> the only dollars available for his work are *hunter dollars*.

And Don pretty much read my mind [ careful with that, Don ;) ].

Although I should point out, that should read (*were* hunter dollars). I was
rather an exception at the time (in Washington) to have been P-R funded for
nongame work.
--
Scott Richardson
northeast Seattle
salix at halcyon.com
richasar at dfw.wa.gov