PDF Environmental Quality Council Report HB2 FWP Hunting Access ...

Environmental Quality Council Report HB2 FWP Hunting Access Program FY16/17 Budget Restrictions

Alan Charles, FWP Landowner/Sportsman Relations Bureau Chief May 4, 2016

BACKGROUND: The 2015 Legislature placed the following restrictions for FY16&17 in House Bill 2 on the Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Hunting Access Program budget:

? Hunting Access Program Administration (Restricted/OTO): $1,019,172 (FY16) $1,019,172 (FY17)

? Hunting Access Program Landowner Contracts (Restricted): $5,775,364 (FY16) $5,775,364 (FY17)

? Hunting Access Program Landowner Contracts may be used either for hunter access program payments to landowners or field services provided to manage hunting on block management areas. The department will report on Hunting Access Program Landowner Contracts to the environmental quality council in terms of acres, costs, and services provided to manage hunting on block management areas 90 days after big game hunting season ends.

FWP RESPONSE: For the purposes of setting up program budgets, providing direction to program staff regarding how to charge program expenditures, and providing a basis for preparing the post-season program report for EQC, the following definitions were developed:

FWP defines "Hunting Access Program Administration" as: Operations costs and personal services costs for time spent by program staff to prepare and manage program budgets, prepare and process contracts and BMA maps, prepare, print and mail program materials, issue payments and cooperator licenses, prepare program reports, and attend program planning meetings."

FWP defines "Hunting Access Program Landowner Contract Payments" and "Field Services Provided to Manage Hunting on Block Management Areas" as:

Hunter Access Program Payments to Landowners ? direct payments to landowners;

Field Services Provided to Manage Hunting on Block Management Areas operations costs and personal services costs for time spent by program staff to set up and manage Block Management Areas, including activities such as meeting with landowners to evaluate properties and establish BMA rules, installing BMA sign-in boxes and boundary signs, providing BMA patrol presence, issuing BMA permission either on-site or from remote locations, distributing and collecting permission slips and dismantling BMAs after the hunting season ends.

2015 BLOCK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

TOTAL CONTRACTS:

1,280

TOTAL CONTRACT PAYMENTS: $4,446,103

TOTAL ENROLLED ACRES:

Region

Contracts

1

15

2

145

3

102

4

222

5

151

6

320

7

325

7,376,508 Payments

$24,869 $470,654 $639,389 $847,782 $469,187 $946,370 $1,067,853

Acres

765,348 583,787 531,746 1,230,171 624,950 1,264,944 2,375,562

SERVICES PROVIDED TO MANAGE HUNTING ON BMAS:

? 44 hunting access technicians (HATs) statewide ? hired as seasonal staff;

? HATs assigned to patrol areas ranging from 325 square miles to 9,476 spare miles;

? HATs provided direct services in assigned areas to number of BMAs ranging from 6 ? 86, with number of landowners in each BMA ranging from one to more than 30;

? HATs travelled combined total mileage for peak months of October & November ranging from 2300+ miles to more than 12,000 miles;

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The West Deer Lodge Hunting Access Technician is based in Garrison and patrols the Deer Lodge, Anaconda,

Garrison and Drummond area. In 2015 this position accounted for 2,847 hunter days, field checked 12

harvested big game animals and maintained routine contact with 4 cooperators, Montana Correctional

Enterprises Ranch personnel and multiple other landowners in the area. (General Rifle Season Position)

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This area patrolled by two people and includes the Upper and Lower Bitterroot valley. In 2015 this dis trict accounted for 3,224 hunter days, maintained routine contact with 14 cooperators and multiple other landowners in the area.

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1,342

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Friday night during the General Rifle Seas on.

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accounted for 4,442 hunter days, field checked 13 harvested big game animals and maintained routine contact with 26 cooperators and multiple other landowners, and also helps administer the public Drawing for

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This dis trict is patrolled by s everal HATs and program s taff as additional and s hared res pons ibilities . Patrol area includes Hall, Drummond, Garrison and Little Blackfoot areas. In 2015 this area accounted for 5,576 hunter days and field checked 59 harvested big game animals and maintained routine contact with 25 cooperators and multiple other landowners in the area.

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10 roster boxes. Responsible for 8 BMAs and 1 Access Corridor (11 unique landowners).

16 roster boxes. Responsible for 7 BMAs (13 unique landowners ).

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