I haven't seen anyone on this forum who is a PF Hater. The negativity generally comes from your posts against people, whether they are PF members or not, who have different views of what PF should be doing in Kansas. I definitely don't want PF buying more land for public access. I have said for years on this forum, long before you became a member, that Kansas should re-evaluate or discontinue the WIHA program. It was never created for the upland hunter anyway, instead, the WIHA program began the same year that KS allowed NR deer hunting for the first time. Kansas WIHA is a very misused program and has nothing to do with habitat improvement. You are the one that mentioned in a previous post the PF was doing great things in Kansas creating more public access which is the last thing I would want. Kansas is much different than Iowa, Minnesota, or any of the northern states. When I go up and hunt Iowa, I very seldom see cattle and very seldom see barb wire. In Kansas, we are up to our eyeballs in cattle, barb wire, and hay bales. Every state is different in habitat, landownership, and regulations so PF's approach needs to be different in each state. In Kansas, pheasants fail to rebound due to habitat which is destroyed with emergency grazing and haying. So that is where PF should focus their efforts. Working with landowners, KS is 98% privately owned, to set something back, not for public access, but for a sanctuary for birds. Scheduling a Pheasant Fest 300-400 miles away from pheasant country won't accomplish anything. Kansas doesn't have many upland hunters anymore, so the focus should be on landowners, out in the counties they live in.
That’s a kick in the nuts, draw some scales on that birds chest it could be an inbred blue quail!
They aren't going to offer a plate for every game species. What do you expect, a plate for turkeys, ducks, geese, antelope, rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, etc? Besides, the deer is for Wildlife, the fish is for Fishing, the chickadee is for Non Game Wildlife, and the camping is for State Parks. It's unfortunate that they have a deer to represent all hunters, but deer hunting is their revenue. NR deer hunting rakes in a fortune from tag sales but the real money comes in NR's and Outfitters buying land. Hunting ground is going for $4000 an acre and up. Regardless of which plate you choose the money goes to conservation, supposedly. These plates are different from the PF and DU plates. I don't even see the PF plates as an option for 2026.
I understand that, just showing where their headspace lies
There isn't much revenue from upland hunters compared to deer and waterfowl hunting. It's dying. But at least we have a new house bill for stocking pheasants, which is a joke.
