legislative Urgency for Iowa Sportsmen 2015 Dear Honorable Representative & Senators of Iowa & All Sportsmen of Iowa. I write tonight to inform you that some may be looking to open the code that protects your Habitat Stamp Funds. Present code protects your revenues from being used on a broader array of things that may simply have absolutely Nothing to do with Improving Habitat, Enhancing Habitat or restoring habitat for the benefit of wildlife and You the Iowa Sportsmen of CCB area-s. Oh yes CCB-s could be looking at opening the code to change language that gives them a little broader use of Your Habitat Stamp Funds. If you object as I hope you would, please contact these Senate & House Natural Resource Committee members. Advise them of the above and ask that they Not Allow Your Habitat Stamp funds to be used for anything but Habitat that you as a Sportsmen directly benefit from on CCB areas. Any such action to open and change the code that would permit the use of our funds to be used on things we as sportsmen do not directly benefit from is unacceptable. Ask them to look into the matter and find out who exactly is looking at potentially opening and suggesting we change the code, that could leave you with less money for Habitat and Recreational hunting opportunities. I have a legislative draft that would create a New Program under the Habitat Stamp-s / Program. It is the Iowa Aquatic Management Area Program where revenues would be strictly applied to Restoration, Enhancement and Acquisition of Habitat areas along our Rivers, Streams, Creeks and Lakes. I have been working on this for over a year and initially titled it the Restore Iowa Rivers, Streams, Creeks Lakes Act. Revenues would be used as match sources for federal and state grants or of the like that would compound our revenues so that more can be done to enhance, restore and protect vital habitat and opportunity along those listed areas for Iowa Sportsmen. Fish & Wild Game would greatly benefit from this New Program and so would Iowa Sportsmen directly. As I was researching this for the past year, I also come to learn of our Threat to Our Recreational Sportsmen Habitat Revenues / program. I hope that everyone contacts all of those on both lists and request that they Block any action that might change the present code to broaden the use of our limited revenues on CCB areas, that may have absolutely nothing to do with an ounce of wildlife habitat that you the sportsmen directly benefit from. The further strengthen Iowa Sportsmen s Recreational areas habitat needs, I also would suggest that any acres presently being leased for agricultural purposes, said revenues associated with that lease go directly back into the recreational sportsmen facility to Enhance, Restore Habitat to greatly improve the status of habitat and public opportunity. Last and certainly not least. Iowa Sportsmens Habitat Stamp Revenues should Not be utilized to pay property taxes on state lands that all Of Iowa utilize and benefit from. Said taxes to be paid on our lands and waters should be deferred to the state Executive authority. As an example I give all Legislature this info. Iowa presently has roughly about 26000 Iowa waterfowlers. Waterfowlers pay a state Migratory fee. It generates about 260k dollars a year to invest in Iowa wetlands and waterfowl habitat. These properties with in counties and counties directly benefit from those state lands by expenditures generated by Iowa waterfowlers in those counties. What is the economic impact associated with the Iowa waterfowl season specifically? A 2006 survey stepped down to Iowa waterfowl hunters indicated that annual trip expenditures were $7.9 million and total output as a result of waterfowl hunting was $11.425 million.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:48:41 +0000
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