If half your money is coming from license sales for an agency budget at the state level,

and then on top of it, that number directly says how much federal funds you get.

That widget of a number of license buyers you have and videos changing really affects how much money can be put on the ground for conservation to happen.

So that's a big picture. So when we say license sales are changing and why this is a big issue it's because we have this

cycle and the source all going on that if there's less people participating using

equipment that's less conservation on the ground because there's less money coming in.

I think a lot of times the

traditional perspective has been along lines of well you know we won't we

won't have them do field dressing yet or we let's hold off on the butchering

because that's that's the gross part.

When in reality I think a lot of people that's that's the connection, the understanding.

Just have somebody over for dinner and feed them some of the wild game and then have that conversation and if you only want to cover out enough time for that, do that.

Tom McGuain said a long time ago that being able to take a day's ration of fish and game

off of the land that you live on has as much to do with societal sanity as a day's

wage for a day's labor.

One thing could be taken away from this podcast

and you get nothing else.

You just go like, how is conservation funded? I think I'll Google that up.

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