Therefore, we must educate and certify them to prevent slob like hunting. The result is that we still certify hunters but we have never restored the opportunity to hunt. We never countered the perception that all hunters are slobs. And that goes for all wildlife statewide. If the Department would have emphasized the impotence of managing wolf populations by regulated public landing and shooting of wolves, Proposition 3 would not have passed.
Native lands are the major areas closed to hunting by non-land owners.
Native lands are closed for political reasons not because of slob-hunters. A master hunter program is not a solution to political problems. The first shot wounding rate is not even relevant. I shot a moose with a terminal lung shot. I had to shoot it in the head to keep it from reaching the river before it died.