Ken Kurtis
Contributor
We passed the first hurdle. On Thursday (6/16), the F&G Commission voted unanimously (4-0) to refer our petition to F&G staff for further review and recommendation. They also went out of their way before the vote was taken, to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring of public comment (well over 200) that accompanied the petition. (These are all of your comments both from our dedicated e-mail addy and the change.org petition.) Bear in mind that, in general terms, F&G does not like to name MPAs after people. But it sounds like there might be a crack in that policy for special cases and we're hoping we can convince them that this is one of those instances.
As always, we will keep you posted. But this is a slow, methodical process. Then next F&G Commission hearing is August followed by October so hopefully we can get approval at one of those meetings.
As always, we will keep you posted. But this is a slow, methodical process. Then next F&G Commission hearing is August followed by October so hopefully we can get approval at one of those meetings.
