FEE INCREASE

Just saw a text from my neighbor stating hunting license fees going up next year.  Anyone confirm that or know by how much?

yeah, when I first heard this I found the same article on the proposed increase.  If they did approve it when was the meeting when they would have voted on it?

There is no recent movement in the legislature for a fee increase. 

"The proposal, which will require legislative approval, would boost an adult resident hunting license by $20 over five years. The current $19 fee would increase by $10 in the first year and then by $5 in the third and fifth years, pushing the total cost to $39.

Fees for most other resident and non-resident licenses also would increase over the same timetable. The price of an adult non-resident license would double to $200, but the cost of junior resident and non-resident licenses and senior resident licenses would not change".
 
Copied and pasted from H3Fisher's link above.

I'm good, got my lifetime license this year. Thank You Jesus.

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That should thin out the number of hunters a bit more. Should make the Audubon happy as lately the money seems to be going  to the programs they support. Could also give the PGC employees the 20 and out they were after. I'll bet it won't do much for the ring necks or other pro hunting projects.

Yep. I agree. Bloated pensions and benefits yet again rearing its ugly head within the public sector. All a fee increase will do is pay retirees and allow others to go out way before private sector employees can even dream of doing so. It will also cause some hunters to hang it up. 

Don't know what your total fees are in PA but for a comparison here is Ct==
As a Senior I get a free inland and marine fishing tag as well as firearm small game.  Savings of about  30 to 40 bucks.
After small game each hunt is  tag is ala-cart.
Soooo today I purchased Private land rifle, muzzle loader and archery Deer tags as well as a firearm Fall Turkey- total--$98.
Still to come will be State land Shotgun and Muzzle loader--passed on Spring Turkey-Would all be bout another $60 depending on exactly what I picked up..
   That's for a resident.
 Also each piece of Private Land hunted requires a landowner signed  permission slip on a State form- so pre season ya gotta drive all over the state getting stuff signed when the landowner is gonna be available.
 And ,of course, ya have to go to School for Firearm Hunting and Archery and have your State ID numbers available whenever buying a tag.
All those Deer tags get ya about 12 possible Deer harvests- and about 5 Turkey. If you would ever want to take that much game.
In one area I have this year the replacement tags for Deer are pretty much unlimited.
Am happy with one or two a year so all those possibilities are kinda irrelevant but its nice to be able to participate in all the seasons.
Kind of a take one decent one and wait for a monster the rest of the year attitude.

From the chart,  if a fee increase is approved, I'd guess we're about to see a substantial decrease with antlerless allocations.

I hear ya Mike and it's obvious that no genius produced the chart but, I can't see a politician writing such stupid crap..... most likely a biologist.
 
To me the recent changes in the doe hunting and a proposed cost increase for doe tags shows "there is light at the end of the tunnel".  I just hope we're close to the end of that tunnel and there is no whistle behind that light!

I agree that we can certainly expect to see a reduction in sales to a certain extent and that should have been considered.  For discussion purposes, if we do consider a 20% reduction across the board in number of permits/licenses sold, the expected resident license fee revenues for next year will still increase by approximately $6M or 24%.  
 
I understand that the point of their release was to provide general information about the increase, but they could have at least made somewhat reasonable assumptions before they published it.  Also, the comparisons that they attempted to draw with the cost of licenses in other states are bogus.  They made no effort to understand what it was they were actually comparing and failed to consider the different licensing sale structures of other states.    

the ultimate outdoorsman license,  does that include a fishing license?

wayne ...
 
what I said was about 90% say it is a deal .. I never said all states had it better ....
 
 

Bunch of 'effin whiners.  PGC is WAY past due for a license increase.  Maybe not as much as proposed here but, we have it good here compared to many other states.   
 
Hunting and fishing licenses, even with increases, are some of the best entertainment bangs for the buck out there.

My elected officials say they will not
support an increase either ....

http://www.theoutdoorshop.state.pa.us//FBG/game/GameDonations.asp?ShopperID=595A86F16C404F148F171661501B7B14
 
We all have options.   Those of us who don't support a fee increase are free to express those views.    As for any pgc brownnosers, well they have options as well.  Several monetary denominations to choose from to fit any budget.

See?  The current situation is fine as-is.
 
As for "time"   I don't care if its 2 years or 20 between fee increases.   Either they have the money from various sources to get the job done or they don't.  Currently they do.   Its just unfortunate they don't do so in a more responsible manner.   
 
Maybe if they had more money they could donate another quarter mil to hawk mountain, or give an exec director a nice retirement package? lol.  Btw, anyone hear anything more about that Carl Roe deal?   He was supposedly suing.   What ever came of this?   Did he ever get a settlement from pgc once Corbett was no longer around to police the issue?