Mdc "open House Forums" On Didymo To Be Held

[exiledguide]

Well, if you don't have a problem driving to those areas to fish, I don't know why you would have a problem driving to those areas to learn how to protect them.

What is it for you, about 40 miles????

Good point. I'm not talking about myself alone what about the people from KC or STL? Kind of hard to get to a meeting at St James or Cassvile at 6:00pm when you have to work and if people didn't come from these areas you wouldn't have the motels and campgrounds around them.

[Danoinark]

Good point. I'm not talking about myself alone what about the people from KC or STL? Kind of hard to get to a meeting at St James or Cassvile at 6:00pm when you have to work and if people didn't come from these areas you wouldn't have the motels and campgrounds around them.

I would bet they intend to have more meetings and also believe there would be a period of public comment like other issues before any regulations were put in place.

[troutfiend1985]

Well, if you don't have a problem driving to those areas to fish, I don't know why you would have a problem driving to those areas to learn how to protect them.

What is it for you, about 40 miles????

180 give or take. I would show up to one but there just isn't anyway that I'm driving all that way for a meeting, right now I can't even get out to fish. If one was in KC, then yes I would be there.

[duckydoty]

180 give or take. I would show up to one but there just isn't anyway that I'm driving all that way for a meeting, right now I can't even get out to fish. If one was in KC, then yes I would be there.

You just posted a report on fishing Crane Friday. Another 40 minutes of driving and you could be at the Dewey Short Visitors Center. Make a day of it fishing Crane and then hit the meeting. The MDC is looking for everyones input on how to stop the "rock snot." This is everyones chance to be heard on wether this or that is not fair. Heck, let me know if your coming this way. I'll grill up some duck poppers for lunch!

[Chief Grey Bear]

Good point. I'm not talking about myself alone what about the people from KC or STL? Kind of hard to get to a meeting at St James or Cassvile at 6:00pm when you have to work and if people didn't come from these areas you wouldn't have the motels and campgrounds around them.

I understand the validity of your point too. I guess the next question would be, where do the majority of wade fisherman live and/or tend to congragate??? I can't say with any assurance but, I would venture to say that the MDC believes that it may be at these points. And this is just as good a starting place as any.

[Outside Bend]

Folks who can't make the meetings can still contact members of the Conservation Commission, as well as the Conservation Federation, and voice their opinions.

[troutfiend1985]

You just posted a report on fishing Crane Friday. Another 40 minutes of driving and you could be at the Dewey Short Visitors Center. Make a day of it fishing Crane and then hit the meeting. The MDC is looking for everyones input on how to stop the "rock snot." This is everyones chance to be heard on wether this or that is not fair. Heck, let me know if your coming this way. I'll grill up some duck poppers for lunch!

I guess I should elaborate. I am a law student, for the next 2.5 months I will not have time to make a 7 hour drive there and back for the purposes of recreation, let alone a meeting. This time it fell in my lap, I have no papers to write, no tests to study for and only about 75 pages of reading to do tonight. One days schedule of freedom does not equate to being free for the next several months for the criminally insane law student Because of my current scheduling, if I did have that free time for one day, wild horses aren't going to drag me away from trout fishing as these are rare days indeed for me right now. I'm not saying that the meeting is not important, it is, but my limited schedule and personal interests dictate. What I am saying is that if the MDC would have its KC chapter host one of these meetings, I would be there in a heart beat. I can find 3-4 hours of spare time, but just not a whole day, especially when I would be having finals and interviews looming over my schedule at these proposed times.

I would love to be down there, and definitely have some opinions, but I would also think that the MDC could really reach out to the masses by having meetings at heavily populated areas. I think that they might reach some people who occasionally go down to these parks who are unaware of this rock snot and the possible environmental consequences of this crud. But the MDC is going to have to make some meetings in the populated areas. Looking ahead, my schedule just isn’t going to allow me heading down there for a meeting, or fishing until at least June.

[Phil Lilley]

I bet we can make one of the meetings and record it- post it here.

[troutfiend1985]

I bet we can make one of the meetings and record it- post it here.

Now that would be awesome. That would allow people like me to know what is being said and the thoughts of the MDC. I would really appreciate that, it would mean a lot to me because even though I don't get down to Taney, Crane, Bennett or Roaring very often, I still have a very high interest in these streams and to the health of the fishery.

[Danoinark]

Now that would be awesome. That would allow people like me to know what is being said and the thoughts of the MDC. I would really appreciate that, it would mean a lot to me because even though I don't get down to Taney, Crane, Bennett or Roaring very often, I still have a very high interest in these streams and to the health of the fishery.

I doubt MDC is locked in to just these sites. I would suggest that you contact someone with the KC Flyfishers and see if they would be willing to host MDC at a future meeting.