Comments on: What’s worse? Hogs or hunters? http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2011/11/29/whats-worse-hogs-or-hunters/ The Oklahoman's Ed Godfrey is your guide to the great outdoors Wed, 15 May 2013 19:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Sam Waite http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2011/11/29/whats-worse-hogs-or-hunters/comment-page-1/#comment-16159 Sam Waite Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:05:23 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/?p=3803#comment-16159 The primary reason that many landowners do not want to sign-up is the same reason that many hunters do not. The completely insecure and simple manner in how the Dept of Ag has done this. The list of hunters is in a downloadable by anyone PDF file. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and some even their home email addresses. Everything necessary for a robber or Identity Thief. The Dept of Ag has made everyone on that list a target for burglars or robbers looking for guns and hunting equipment. The landowners do not want to ID themselves in this manner.

For the amateurs at the Dept of Ag. What no log-ins or any traceable security for accessing the lists? No database to add some value to the list of names; like who is a trapper and who is a gun hunter vice who only uses a bow?

For our Dept of Wildlife – Where are they? Asleep. No links or any information about this at their website at all.

Landowners should not register their properties but the database of hunters and trappers should be a secure database to protect them. The owners can obtain a secured login account to search the database. After that it is a transaction between the owner and the hunter/trapper.

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