Chapter IV - Block Management Effectiveness 



The department indicated the Block Management Working Group 

 will discuss and make recommendations regarding this issue. 



Recommendation #7 



We recommend the department develop a compensation system 

 that rewards landowners for entering into an aggregate Block 

 Management Area. 



Documentation of 

 Enrollment and 

 Re-enrollment of 

 Landowners 



When the program enlarged in 1996, the first landowners enrolled 

 were the ones already in the program. New enrollees were at the 

 discretion of the wardens and biologists. We were told there were 

 some landowners who should not have been enrolled because the 

 area does not provide habitat or wildlife needed to meet program 

 enrollment criteria. In 1998 a department committee developed a 

 regional enrollment process and criteria. Each region was to: 



1. Develop an inter-divisional committee to make enrollment 

 decision recommendations. 



2. Select criteria of highest priority for that region. 



3. Evaluate existing landowners on a YES/NO basis to determine 

 whether or not they will be automatically re-enrolled. 



4. Rank numerically all new enrollment candidates and existing 

 landowners who receive a NO designation for automatic re- 

 enrollment. 



5. Decide regional enrollment using the "scores" to prioritize 

 candidates. 



6. Document all ranking. 



7. Document the rationale used to make enrollment decisions if 

 several candidates receive equivalent ranking scores. 



Enrollment criteria included items pertaining to wildlife 

 management, hunter opportunity, landowner relations, 

 administrative accountability, and participant education/stewardship. 

 The list for criteria follows the rules for participation. Regions were 



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