Environmental Quality Council Report HB2 FWP Hunting ...
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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