governments and residents who value wdldlife would benefit, as would agricultural producers for 

 whom a game damage problem was averted. Workloads related to planning might increase but 

 without additional staff time due to changed emphasis. 



Issue: Access /Effect on Licensing, Regulations, and Enforcement 



Overall Access— The. effects of an overall access policy on licensing and regulations imder this 7' 



alternative would not change appreciably from those of alternative 1. Enforcement efforts would 

 continue to concentrate on private land to improve sportsman/landovmer relationships. This 

 alternative's increased emphasis on resource protection might slightly increase enforcement 

 workloads. 



Block Management Po//cy~Levels of licensing under this alternative would not appreciably change 

 from alternative 1. If additional funding similar to HEP is developed for a nonhunting access 

 initiative, regulations might be implemented to protect those habitats. Enforcement workloads could 

 increase from alternative 1 to enforce any new regulations. 



Access Through Lease, Purchase, or Easement-This alternative's emphasis on resource protection 

 would have no measurable effect on licensing. Any increased complexity of regulations from 

 evaluating access on a case by case basis could increase enforcement workloads. 



Interaction with Other Agencies-FWP's response to other agencies' land management proposals 

 would have no measurable effect on licensing under this alternative but could affect regulations and 

 enforcement. For example, efforts to reduce elk vulnerability to hunting on national forests might be 

 accomplished through either restricting logging and associated road-building or restricting other users 

 of public land such as himters. Although travel restrictions on public land would remain the 

 responsibility of the public agency managing the land, any cooperative effort to enforce restrictions 

 on motorized recreation or motor-assisted himting would increase enforcement workloads from 

 alternative 1. 



Closure of Large Private Blocks-FWP's efforts to discourage closure of large blocks of private land 

 to hunting through game damage assistance, HM projects, and HEP would continue to minimally 

 affect licensing, regulations, and enforcement under this alternative. A strong focus on private land 

 issues and minimizing the potential for game damage by emphasizing annual harvests of big game 

 over large blocks of private land could minimize the need to increase regulations and enforcement 

 workload. However, a small increase in hunter access could correspondingly increase enforcement 

 workload. 



Access Fees~FWP would continue to apply game damage assistance and HEP to discourage private 

 landowners from charging access fees. These actions probably would minimally affect licensing, 

 regulations, and enforcement. Any new preference granted landowners for licenses might increase 

 enforcement workload from alternative 1. 



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