It's those pesky landowners and those pesky people over 64 and now it's those pesky poor people. He should listen to himself one time. He sounds like Hillary.
My guess is he already has the CAB ready and this article was just to go ahead and tee up his proposal to screw the average Alabamian again. Get ready for the CAB meeting. It's coming whether the populous wants it or not.
By the time of the CAB, the meetings and decisions behind closed doors will already happened. The Board will take over for Sykes and they will shield their puppet. They will take some fairly drastic measures (as ,BhamFred said about Sykes about to get stupid) but the push back will be deflected off Sykes to the Board. Roadblocks will become more frequent with GWs but will only result in bringing the non-hunting public into the fray. By this time next year the divide will be even greater and adherence to their wishes even less. This is getting better than a soap opera!