I made the same request to Chatham County Chief Appraiser Gary Udinsky at the March 2 Board of Assessor's meeting, the day after the state auditors released their report.
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Preference will be given to letters less than 200 words. Unfortunately in today's society the public has very little hands-on experience with true wildlife and natural resources, and so it thinks going to a zoo or watching a crocodile hunter on television is tasting the wild. Because of that, wildlife and natural resource management remain two of the most difficult segments of government to handle. Most of what the public knows, or thinks it knows, stems from information fabricated by special interest groups to fulfill special agendas. While they lend a type of do-gooder mob appeal with their sensationalized whining, rarely do those special interest groups provide feasible solutions to the problems about which they are seemingly so concerned.