INCREASE IN DUCK STAMP FEE

Personally at a crossroads with waterfowl right now for a couple different reasons - only hunted ducks once last year and not at all this year.  Still bought my stamp this year.  
 
If I was still into duck hunting as much as I was 5 or 6 years ago, I wouldn't bat an eye at $25 for this.  
 
If things continue on their current trajectory, $25 will probably be enough to keep me out of the game for a few years till things change up a bit.  
 
 

Had to put down my first lab, Hank, last summer (2013) at age 7.  Lyme disease he got at 4 destroyed his kidneys.  His natural ability and drive sure made it easy to make him a serviceable retriever for the type of water I normally hunted.  He was free.  
 
Bought another one a few months after he died, but in hindsight I shouldn't have done it so quickly.  I knew life was changing with our kids' activities and sports, and he came from a breeder who focuses on family pets and not from a hunting line.  He's got below average drive and and natural hunting instincts (he doesn't even chase rabbits or birds in the yard)  - somebody with more time and skill than I have could probably make him a serviceable retriever/hunter.  For now, he's a wonderful family pet - probably the friendliest, most loving dog I've ever been around - but I don't know that he'll ever be much of a hunter unless I would send him off to a trainer or give him up to somebody who knows training well.
 
At any rate, I feel ya.  It's just not the same without Hank.  The personal drive to do it just isn't there for me anymore.  Maybe in a few years it will be.
 
 

So it costs $25 to mail a duck?😉

I Would support the increase.
 
However, I believe that any user of federal waterfowl managed property should be required to purchase the stamp..... especially "birders".