Cuts to NYSDEC

[Curmudgeon]

Reading the New York Outdoor News, I learned that the state Comptroller is alarmed by continuing cuts to DEC - http://www.outdoornews.com/December-2014/Audit-DEC-needs-more-resources/

 

This is the Comptroller's page on the report - http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/dec14/121014b.htm

 

My impression is the agency is demoralized. It has suffered a huge loss of institutional knowledge in recent years due to retirements. Anyone concerned about the environment in NYS should be concerned.

[Doc]

Reading the New York Outdoor News, I learned that the state Comptroller is alarmed by continuing cuts to DEC - http://www.outdoornews.com/December-2014/Audit-DEC-needs-more-resources/

 

This is the Comptroller's page on the report - http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/dec14/121014b.htm

 

My impression is the agency is demoralized. It has suffered a huge loss of institutional knowledge in recent years due to retirements. Anyone concerned about the environment in NYS should be concerned.

It's one thing to be concerned, and quite another to be able to do anything about it. We still have the same guy allocating resources that we had before the election. We didn't do our job of booting the idiot out, so now along with many, many other legislative problems our options are eliminated as far as I can see.

[sits in trees]

The DEC is a Gov agency that I like and cuts to the dept won't be good for hunters and sportsman in NYS. Poaching and other illegal activities will be on the upswing without the threat of a strong DEC force patrolling our woods.

[bubba]

any cuts will be done with boots on the ground, certainly not in Albany