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Read the letters in the pics.
Larry and Amanda Anderson received the formal request from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife last month. The reason given by the state for requesting access to “survey the creek on your property” was to look for the “foothill yellow-legged frog.”
According to the letter, ODFW is concerned with declining numbers of the frog’s population.

In case you can't read the response:

Dear Mr. Niemela:
Thank you for your inquiry regarding accessing our property to survey for the yellow-legged frog. We may be able to help you out with this matter.
We have divided our 2.26 acres into 75 equal survey units with a draw tag for each unit. Application fees are only $8.00 per unit after you purchase the “Frog Survey License” ($120.00 resident / $180.00 Non-Resident). You will also need to obtain a “Frog Habitat” parking permit ($10.00 per vehicle). You will also need an “Invasive Species” stamp ($15.00 for the first vehicle and $5.00 for each add’l vehicle) You will also want to register at the Check Station to have your vehicle inspected for non-native plant life prior to entering our property. There is also a Day Use fee, $5.00 per vehicle.
If you are successful in the Draw you will be notified two weeks in advance so you can make necessary plans and purchase your “Creek Habitat” stamp. ($18.00 Resident / $140.00 Non-Resident). Survey units open between 8am and 3pm but you cannot commence survey until 9am and must cease all survey activity by 1pm.
Survey Gear can only include a net with a 2″ diameter made of 100% organic cotton netting with no longer than an 18″ handle, non-weighted and no deeper than 6′ from net frame to bottom of net. Handles can only be made of BPA-free plastics or wooden handles. After 1pm you can use a net with a 3″ diameter if you purchase the “Frog Net Endorsement” ($75.00 Resident / $250 Non-Resident). Any frogs captured that are released will need to be released with an approved release device back into the environment unharmed.
As of June 1, we are offering draw tags for our “Premium Survey” units and application is again only $8.00 per application. However, all fees can be waives if you can verify “Native Indian Tribal rights and status.
You will also need to provide evidence of successful completion of “Frog Surveys and You” comprehensive course on frog identification, safe handling practices, and self-defense strategies for frog attacks. This course is offered online through an accredited program for a nominal fee of $750.00.
Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you. Otherwise, we decline access to our property but appreciate your inquiry.
Sincerely,
Larry & Amanda Anderson

  You're not requiring an Environmental Assessment Report or liability bond?
 

LOL..awesome 

Survey units open between 8am and 3pm but you cannot commence survey until 9am and must cease all survey activity by 1pm.

i love it 

Awsome!

YES! That is awesome.

Love it that's everybody's uncle and mine too

It allows access in a prescribed, sensitive manner following established, non-descriminatory, non-preferential practices.

Just like we do to hunt and fish.

Saw that last month in a news feed.  They must have been chuckling the whole time they were writing it. 

I can't stop laughing!!!

Me and my lady literally have tears from luaghing! Il never forget that!  Good read!

 
  That was GREAT!  Reads like something right out of the DFG reg's book! love it!

I am usually the person that is asking permission to work.
It's very sad to see public servants just trying to do their jobs, getting a hard time and being laughed at...


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I am usually the person that is asking permission to work.
It's very sad to see public servants just trying to do their jobs, getting a hard time and being laughed at...


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I don't mean to disrespect what it is that you do but I do think you need to reflect more on the intent of the reply, which to me was a simply eloquent dose of medicine to the source of irritation.  Perhaps if there was more room for this type of dialogue, "the state" would better understand just how low a regard most of us hold for some of the moronic rules and regulations that we are not only forced to abide by, but simply struggle to even understand. 

It's easy to simply say "well, that's not my responsibility, I'm only counting frogs", but that's exactly how things get so screwed up to begin with... Nobody wants to take accountability much less action.  True with all organizations. 

Never ask a question you don't want to hear the answer to:  so when you ask permission to enter, be prepared for a full answer....




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