DNR proposes Minnesota license fee increases

[Bobby Bass]

Quick question

Is the lifetime license only offered to residents?

  Lee you must be a resident but after you have one and leave the state it is still valid. So when you come to MN this summer if ya just stayed and fished you could be here long enough to become a resident and then move back to WI in the fall ! Bet Borgie would think it is  a good idea.. Sure Hunterdown could let ya pitch a tent in the back forty.

[kenhuntin]

I have a different take on sticking it to non residents. It does not make sense. Non residents other than Lee typically fish less here. Most of you must have an old buddy you fished with or hunted with that moved out of state for one reason or another. They come back to visit for a week and you want to take him fishing. Well guess what they probably wont be buying no expensive license.
Charging a bigger fee to any individual in America because of race, color,creed or sexual orientation is unacceptable these days so why is it okay to discriminate by state of residence?
It sure is a good deterrent to tourism though.
 Welcome to Minnesotax

[Lee Borgersen]

Quick question

Is the lifetime license only offered to residents?

  Lee you must be a resident but after you have one and leave the state it is still valid. So when you come to MN this summer if ya just stayed and fished you could be here long enough to become a resident and then move back to WI in the fall ! Bet Borgie would think it is  a good idea.. Sure Hunterdown could let ya pitch a tent in the back forty.

Bobby.....Bobby.....Bobby, We don't live in Wisconsin! We live in IL. I'm a licensed nonresident Wisconsin fishing guide there. Years ago Borgie and I were considering the purchase of a summer retirement home on Moose Lake 20 mi from Ely. That was the best decision we never made. Thanks to the Friends Of The Boundary Waters (extreme environmentalist group) all the lake residents have to have a daily permit to be on the lake and that includes visiting fisherman. They went to court on it and the extremists won and the lake is not even in the BWCA.

[Mayfly]

Bobby.....Bobby.....Bobby, We don't live in Wisconsin! We live in IL. I'm a licensed nonresident Wisconsin fishing guide there. Years ago Borgie and I were considering the purchase of a summer retirement home on Moose Lake 20 mi from Ely. That was the best decision we never made. Thanks to the Friends Of The Boundary Waters (extreme environmentalist group) all the lake residents have to have a daily permit to be on the lake and that includes visiting fisherman. They went to court on it and the extremists won and the lake is not even in the BWCA.

Let me get this straight... if you live on the lake you need to get a daily permit to boat and or fish on the lake you live on?? What does this permit cost?

[deadeye]

Yes, you can buy NR lifetime lic.

Got to the DNR site for a better list of costs.

Nonresident lifetime licenses
Lifetime licenses are available to nonresidents for certain hunting and fishing activities. You may purchase a lifetime licenses for yourself or as a gift for someone else.

Fees
Age Group
 Fishing
 Small Game
 
age 3 and under
 $447
 $947
 
4 to age 15
 $600
 $1280
 
16 to age 50
 $773
 $1633
 
51 and over
 $513
 $1083
 

[Bobby Bass]

Deadeye is right I didn't read far enough, see Lee only 513.00 and sorry if I called you a cheese head.. 

[deadeye]

I think I bought so many lifetime licenses, they must think I plan to live forever.
I have a lifetime Sportsmans license and a lifetime Firearms Deer license.
I also bought lifetime sportsmans license for my son in law, Lifetime Fishing for my daughter and Lifetime sportsmans licenses for both my granddaughter and grandson.   
With all that money, the DNR should be set for quite a while.

[Lee Borgersen]

Deadeye is right I didn't read far enough, see Lee only 513.00 and sorry if I called you a cheese head..  

Years ago we here in Illinois were known as Fibs () by the cheese heads. Now a days we are known as Fibwobs. ( )

If you want to know what that means PM me.

[Lee Borgersen]

Bobby.....Bobby.....Bobby, We don't live in Wisconsin! We live in IL. I'm a licensed nonresident Wisconsin fishing guide there. Years ago Borgie and I were considering the purchase of a summer retirement home on Moose Lake 20 mi from Ely. That was the best decision we never made. Thanks to the Friends Of The Boundary Waters (extreme environmentalist group) all the lake residents have to have a daily permit to be on the lake and that includes visiting fisherman. They went to court on it and the extremists won and the lake is not even in the BWCA.

Let me get this straight... if you live on the lake you need to get a daily permit to boat and or fish on the lake you live on?? What does this permit cost?

Judge rules for Friends in Chain of Lakes case

In 1999, a judge ruled that lakes connected

by water passage should not be considered

as one continuous lake and

that ºproperty owners and their guests that

were considered as exempt from permits in

these areas for 20 years were no longer exempt.

These property owners and their

guests now had to compete for permits from

a system that was never meant to include a

level of use that included these property

owners and their guests.

process to determine what the proper permit

numbers would have been if those property

owners and resort guests would have

been included in the original studies on permit

use before the 1978 BWCAW Act.

The Forest Service has a cap on the

number of permits that can be issued for

motor use as specified by the 1978 BWCAW

Act.

After determining the estimated use, the

Forest Service announced it would increase

the number of permits available for those

areas.

In response, seven environmental

groups filed suit.

Plaintiffs included the Friends of the

Boundary Waters Wilderness, the Sierra

Club North Star Chapter, Superior Wilderness

Action Network, American Lands Alliance,

Minnesota Canoe Association,

American Canoe Association, and Minnesotans

for Responsible Recreation. The environmental

groups are represented by

Faegre & Benson LLP, a Minneapolis law

firm.


Conservationists with Common Sense

(CWCS) had joined with the U.S. Forest

Service in the case. CWCS is waiting to hear

if the U. S. Forest Service will appeal the

decision.

process to determine what the proper permit

numbers would have been if those property

owners and resort guests would have

been included in the original studies on permit

use before the 1978 BWCAW Act.

The Forest Service has a cap on the

number of permits that can be issued for

motor use as specified by the 1978 BWCAW

Act.

After determining the estimated use, the

Forest Service announced it would increase

the number of permits available for those

areas.

In response, seven environmental

groups filed suit.

Plaintiffs included the Friends of the

Boundary Waters Wilderness, the Sierra

Club North Star Chapter, Superior Wilderness

Action Network, American Lands Alliance,

Minnesota Canoe Association,

American Canoe Association, and Minnesotans

for Responsible Recreation. The environmental

groups are represented by

Faegre & Benson LLP, a Minneapolis law

firm.

Conservationists with Common Sense

(CWCS) had joined with the U.S. Forest

Service in the case. CWCS is waiting to hear

if the U. S. Forest Service will appeal the

decision.