Its not about asking for money or getting them to pay up.

It is about them being official or not being official. Matt Brock and Nighthunter and the others are nice guys. But them posting as "official" DCNR reps during their off-hours does not mean anything more than me telling you the price of a bushel corn (which I know nothing about), but I can sound "official" about it.

The DCNR has had for many years made it a very official policy of not being an active participating member of Aldeer, and the reason being is that they are scared of talking and dealing with the regular public face-to-face directly.

But doing it indirectly, through Matt and Nighthunter, seems good-enough for the guys in Montgomery. When it comes time to give you a ticket because you misunderstood something you read on Aldeer from an "un-official-but-protrayed-as-official" source ends up biting you in the field and the courtroom do not complain to me.

So if the DCNR wants to use Aldeer as a place to communicate hunting regulations, which seem to change at a moments notice these days, then they need to man-up and do it officially. Otherwise, they need to go away and let us continue to bitch about what a horrible job they are doing.