(d) preventive measures currently available or which could be made 

 available, such as new kinds of fencing or repellants, herding, special hunt- 

 ing seasons, use of blood meal, night hunting or herding, scare techniques, 

 and others; 



(6) methods available to landowners of preventing and mitigating dam- 

 age to their land and information and assistance that may be provided in 

 implementing such methods; 



(7) the extent of damage that a landowner should be reasonably 

 required to bear, realizing that excessive and unusual damage will be 

 impossible to prevent in certain individual circumstances; 



(8) the feasibility of providing direct compensation to landowners and 

 circumstances when such compensation may be payable; 



(9) other, possibly alternative, compensation programs, such as pur- 

 chase of conservation or habitat easements from landowners or providing 

 tax or other incentives for maintaining wildlife habitat on private land; and 



(10) the costs involved in any coordinated damage control program and 

 how such costs should be allocated between landowners, sportsmen, and the 

 general public. 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the committee report the fmdings 

 of the study to the 50th Legislature and, if necessary, draft legislation to 

 implement its recommendations. 



Approved April 1, 1985. 



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