Michigan Licences Doubling in price across the board

[Niteowl]

Our License fees are more than doubling on Deer Tags from $30 for the combo to $75...Fishing are going from $15 for the standard license to $25,then you add your different species stamps for additional fees. The seniors are now only getting a 20% discount instead of a fixed price, our young and first time hunters are gonna pay also,almost the same as the senior hunters. The DNR says its because of at the current rate we are losing hunters and fisherman in the state,that by the year 2010 our resources will be $45,000,000 in the red. I just don't see where this is going to do any good,the seniors are on a fixed income,they cannot afford $60 for a license,specially with the way our deer numbers are down in the state,contrary to what the DNR and Insurance companies say. Your every day hunter will now take a chance on hunting without a license,and if he gets lucky enough to harvest one,he will rush out to buy a license. I will continue to buy mine,but I work full time and have very little chance of losing my income due to pull outs or cut backs....but what about all my neighbors and others that only work about 8 months out of the year because of layoffs,or the other 200 workers locally who lost their jobs because the company went to Canada? It seems to me that we voted on something a couple years ago about keeping "other" hands out of our natural resources fund. Thats why the fund now is depleted. I just think its a load of hog slop.....Thank You GOV. JENNIFER GRANHOLM!!!!