“To protect Idaho's hunting and fishing heritage. To fight against all legal and legislative attempts by the animal rights and anti-gun organizations who are attempting to take away our rights and freedoms under the constitution of the United States Of America. To hold all Government and State Agencies who are stewards of our Wildlife accountable and ensure that science is used as the primary role for our Wildlife management."

In Outdoorsman Bulletin No, 38, I described how Attorney Sam Routson and I met with Lonn Kuck in Boise IDFG Headquarters on Nov. 29, 1993.  Kuck admitted massive deer losses from the 1992-93 winter, and then admitted the elk losses after we showed him ample proof.Kuck looked at 160 elk “ivories” I dumped on his desk that had been removed from 80 elk by one Garden Valley resident who confirmed the elk had died from advanced malnutrition, and he admitted that was evidence that the elk were not fed emergency rations properly.  But then he indicated we were fighting a losing battle and predicted that public hunting as we had known it would be gone in another decade.Instead of reducing seasons in 1993 and ending the harvest of female mule deer and elk until the herds recovered, biologists added several thousand more antlerless permits.  In the Dec, 1993 Commission meeting, former IDFG Director Joe Greenley told Kuck he had destroyed Idaho’s mule deer, and angry hunters testified about tens of thousands of mule deer and thousands of elk that had died needlessly.But instead of at least listening to the angry hunters, Commissioner Dick Meiers jumped up and arrogantly told the hunters they should be thanking the Commission for providing them the extra hunting opportunity!  A little more than a year later when the Legislature expressed its anger upon learning that Director Conley and his biologists were responsible for allowing wolves to be introduced into Idaho, Commissioner Meiers wrote a letter to the Statesman claiming he did not support the wolf introduction.

Partial photo of elk racks from 100 bulls that died from starvation in Garden Valley during 1992-93 winter.
	This is how they took care of our elk herds in the old days!