Taking from outdoors funds not a good way to go

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Governor trying to balance budget from wrong pot

Friday, May 29, 2009

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By Guy Carl
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With the resounding defeat of five of the six propositions in this month’s special election — and a looming, massive $23 billion budget shortfall — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has once again proposed to subsidize the General Fund by transferring monies from the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.

This is the account where annual hunting and fishing license fees, all bear tag monies, a significant portion of deer tag revenues and other big game tag funds are annually deposited.

These funds are intended to be reserved specifically for wildlife management programs.

The latest proposal would take $30 million from this account, nearly one-third of the total annual budget of roughly $100 million.

Redirecting these funds substantially undermines the Department of Fish and Game’s ability to carry out its habitat protection and wildlife conservation mandates — including providing adequate enforcement in the field.

California’s game warden force is already grossly understaffed, with less than 300 on the payroll.

And nearly one-third of these are only in the field part-time due to other administrative responsibilities.

For the amount of square mileage these wardens have to patrol, that is a ridiculously small force. Taking further money from this already-inadequate budget is simply ludicrous.

The California Outdoor Heritage Alliance (COHA), which played a lead role in defeating two similar budget proposals earlier this year, will again be working at the State Capitol over the coming weeks to protect this critical funding stream from being ripped off for unrelated uses.

Anglers, hunters and other conservationists can join the fight by contacting their state representatives to ask that these proposals be soundly rejected.

Napa County is represented by Senator Pat Wiggins and Assemblymember Noreen Evans. Letters can be mailed to both representatives at 1040 Main Street, Suite 205, Napa, CA 94559.

Senator Wiggins can also be reached at 224-1990 or through her Web site, www.sen.ca.gov/wiggins.

Assemblymember Evans also has a Web site, www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/legmem.asp?district=7, or you may call her Napa office at 258-8007.

Guy Carl is a CPA and partner with BDCo Accountants and Advisors in St. Helena (www.bdcocpa.com).

Contact Guy at GC.outdoors@sbcglobal.net.

3 comment(s)

LittleJoe wrote on May 29, 2009 12:54 PM:

" Here is a complete listing of the parks to be closed. Please also remember that it is not only these parks that are closing, but almost all of the state employees that work at these parks will now be jobless.

1. Leo Carrillo State Park.
2. Los Angeles State Historic Park
3. Los Encinos State Historic Park
4. Malibu Creek State Park
5. Malibu Lagoon State Beach
6. Pio Pico State Historic Park
7. Point Mugu State Park
8. Rio de Los Angeles State Park
9. Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach
10. Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park
11. Topanga State Park.
12. Verdugo Mountains
13. Will Rogers State Historic Park
14. California State Capitol Museum
15. Governor's Mansion State Historic Park
16. Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park
17. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
18. State Indian Museum State Historic Park
19. Sutter's Fort State Historic Park
20. Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area
21. Calaveras Big Trees State Park
22. California Mining & Mineral Museum
23. Caswell Memorial State Park
24. Columbia State Historic Park
25. George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area "

LittleJoe wrote on May 29, 2009 12:54 PM:

" 26. Great Valley Grasslands State Park
27. Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
28. McConnell State Recreation Area
29. Carpinteria State Beach
30. Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
31. El Capitan State Beach
32. Emma Wood State Beach
33. Gaviota State Park
34. La Purisima Mission State Historic Park
35. McGrath State Beach
36. Point Sal State Beach
37. Refugio State Beach
38. San Buenaventura State Beach
39. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
40. Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
41. Indio Hills Palms
42. Palomar Mountain State Park
43. Picacho State Recreation Area
44. Salton Sea State Recreation Area
45. Annadel State Park
46. Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park
47. Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
48. Benicia State Recreation Area
49. Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
50. Candlestick Point State Recreation Area "

LittleJoe wrote on May 29, 2009 12:55 PM:

" 51. East Shore State Park State Shoreline
52. Jack London State Historic Park
53. John Marsh Home State Historic Park
54. Mount Diablo State Park
55. Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park
56. Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
57. Sonoma State Historic Park
58. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
59. Brannan Island State Recreation Area
60. Delta Meadows
61. Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
62. Franks Tract State Recreation Area
63. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
64. Stone Lake
65. California Citrus State Historic Park
66. Chino Hills State Park
67. Mount San Jacinto State Park
68. San Timoteo Canyon
69. Wildwood Canyon
70. Angel Island State Park
71. China Camp State Park
72. Mount Tamalpais State Park
73. Olompali State Historic Park
74. Samuel P. Taylor State Park
75. Tomales Bay State Park
76. Caspar Headlands State Beach
77. Caspar Headlands State Natural Reserve
78. Greenwood State Beach
79. Hendy Woods State Park
80. Jug Handle State Natural Reserve
81. MacKerricher State Park
82. Mailliard Redwoods State Natural Reserve
83. Manchester State Park
84. Mendocino Headlands State Park
85. Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve
86. Navarro River Redwoods State Park
87. Point Cabrillo Light Station
88. Russian Gulch State Park
89. Schooner Gulch State Beach
90. Van Damme State Park
91. Westport-Union Landing State Beach
92. Andrew Molera State Park
93. Carmel River State Beach
94. Fort Ord Dunes State Park
95. Fremont Peak State Park
96. Garrapata State Park
97. Hatton Canyon
98. Henry W. Coe State Park
99. John Little State Natural Reserve
100. Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park "

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