Chapter III - Block Management Then and Now 



4. 



Compensation to landowners - includes department oversight 

 and supervision of hunting on a BMA including development 

 and implementation of a hunter reservation system 

 administered by FWP when practical, supplying permission 

 books or other materials which document hunter use, signs or 

 hunting-season related supplies, and monetary compensation 

 with payments for impacts set as outlined by the Incentives 

 Committee. (The dollar amounts paid are at the discretion of 

 the department and are not included in the rules.) 



When outfitting and commercial hunting activity are allowed 

 on BMAs. 



Block Management Now 



Regions were requested to write a Block Management Program 

 Implementation Plan in March 1996. The plans outlined how the 

 regions would expand the program in terms of staffing and enrolling 

 landowners. Five regions indicated they would target landowners 

 already enrolled in the existing program. One region changed 

 priorities from private companies to smaller ranches and farms that 

 control key access points. The highest priority for new enrollments 

 was generally landowners who were open to public hunting and/or 

 requested assistance through block management. (One region could 

 not locate an Implementation Plan.) 



After rules were finalized in April 1996, regional staff (biologists, 

 wardens, and Block Management Coordinators) enrolled landowners 

 into the program. Other than enrolling existing landowners in the 

 program, there was essentially no criteria to determine which new 

 landowners to enroll. Staff had about three months to enroll 

 landowners. 



Number of Cooperators 

 Enrolled in the Program 



Eight hundred eighty-two (882) landowners enrolled in the program 

 for the 1996 hunting season, up from 471 landowners in 1995. 

 There were 917 landowners enrolled in 1998, 40 of whom were new 

 to the program. Table 6 shows the number of landowners enrolled 

 by region for the 1995 through 1998 hunting seasons. 



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