VA Stamp Money

[SAXIS ISLANDER]

before the first stamp was sold.

Here's how the stamp tax money is to be spent.

1. to pay for selling of the stamp.
2. 50% of the remainder for donation to a nonprofit org involved in marshland restoration.
3. remainder of funds for approved projects to the public sector.

Aggressive sales tactics by DU got them half the money before the first stamp was sold. This, along with bringing to the table pre-approved projects that they probably already had in the pipeline. Sounds like too sweet of a deal for me.

The remaining funds are still there earmarked for public use on approved projects.

Imagine what would happen if all the money, less the admin overhead, were put to use on property that the State already owned.

Makes me wonder how my Saltwater Fishing monies are being used......

[Karl]

I agree..The biggest problem is the golf cart hunters that get these grants and are blessed by the powers that be dont even hunt the impoundments but once or twice a year..So if they fire one up in your neck of the woods rest assured they are being conserved..Its conservation in the most back handed way possible.They beg the hunters for money and then cut you off with a refuge...Hunters spend more money on conservation than anyone however conservation in duck season is a 6 man limit..We cant all shoot Krieghoffs and wear leather gloves with our initials on em...

[Twin Rivers]

I don't think that Elsing Green has any true impoundments. They have two small impoundments, but I do not think that they are planted(habitat manipulation) at least they were not the last time I was in there. The ducks that Elsing green holds are the reason duck hunting on the Pamunkey can be so productive. Old town also holds lots of ducks and greatly contributes to the amount of ducks in the area. Who knows where the money is going in Kng William. I would hate to see it going to a private impoundments, but all the hunting there is private anyways and people are starting to build impoundments in King william and New Kent. A couple of them have been built, but have not worked out. Unfortunately, Eventually they will get it right and it will change hunting as I know it. Hunting over a pond built in a cornfield will not be the same as hunting on the river.
Impoundments are the name of the game now. Right or wrong they are legal and they work. I have friends that hunt on the lower James, Bayside of the Eastern Shore, and in North Carolina. They all say that impoundments ruined the duck hunting in the areas that they hunted.
I did not mean to turn this into tirade against impoundments. I love to hunt over them, and am in the process of building one myself. Ducks Unlimited should not be building impoundments in Virginia on any non public hunting areas. Our ducks come from the Canada and the Dakotas, that is where the money should be spent or on public hunting spots.