Not Idaho, but Fish and Game Dept can be just as wrong as anyone else.
Arkansas F and G literally took the duck hunting capital of the world, bringing in huge revenue and an amazing experience…and destroyed it completely. They had money, habitat, and organisations to do it…they just didn’t care.
For years, they artificially flooded greentree reserviors too early, too long, and too deep….killing the oaks that made the acorns that brought the ducks. They failed to do basic habitat management like removing beavers that flooded timber…failed to plan, fund, or build water control structures…and ran it like a good Ole boys club where the head was owner of a major for profit hunting club.
Their edicts had little to do with making anything better, but were replete with nostalgia and speeches about how they were expert scientists that sought to preserve traditional hunting.
Most recently, they did a video basically saying the trees are dead, hunters are screwed, tough luck….but hey, they will ban non residents for half the season to appease the morons who don’t see what has happened.
Game and Fish can be just as wrong as any other gov agency.
