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Here is the text of a caption under a picture of Fish & Game officer Ron Arsenault, regarding a talk he gave to the Alton Centennial Rotary club meeting recently.

<sup>Fish and Game talk
"We are rapidly going broke" says Ronald B. Arsenault (left), NH Fish and Game Conservation Officer to members of the Alton Centennial Rotary Club at its weekly meeting. He added, "Mostly because Fish and Game is involved in so many state wide search and rescue missions, and at our department’s expense, it eats up too much of our limited revenues earned from the sale of licenses or from fees." NH Fish and Game Department is not state-funded, but self-supporting, and is in danger of being absorbed by the NH State Police because of insufficient income to continue as is. If this happens, it essentially would eliminate the indispensable animal protection and conservation services NH Fish and Game Department now provides resulting in a huge and negative impact on NH tourism, according to Arsenault. The good news reported by Arsenault is that New Hampshire is now seeing a rapid return of rabbits, bobcats and some lynx in NH. Rotary Club Program Chairman Bob Regan (right), introduced Officer Arsenault.


The picture and text can be found here, on page A5 on the bottom half of the page. http://www.newhampshirelakesandmountains.com/pdf/BAY.2015.02.05.pdf</sup>