Happy Earth day to everyone (better late than never)! Get out of your homes, take your
binoculars,
digital camera binoculars,
telescopes,
spotting scopes, or whatever you have, and enjoy the beauty of this world!
It seems that celebrating nature is Michigan's official public policy. Recently somebody in the Legislature introduced a bill to raise fees for hunting and fishing licenses. It turns out that The Department of Natural Resources needs the money, so hunters and anglers have become the only people willing to supply it. A decade ago, the DNR needed the money, so the taxpayers provided a quarter of the money for them. At this time, general fund spending on the DNR is down to about 8%.
Elected representatives failing to meet their own obligations are asking hunters and anglers to take up the slack, not to violate the letter of the law.