of the Commonwealth's operations. But Kalbfus had a workable solution as early as 1904. He called it a hunting tax, but it was really his first pitch for a hunting license. He suggested "imposing a limited tax, say $1 on every hunter in the state, or on every gun that is used for hunting in the state; imposing a resident tax of this amount for the purpose of securing game 42 with which to replenish the state, under such rules and regulations as may seem best to adopt," Kalbfus wrote in his 1904 annual report. "Surely no true sportsman can object to this amount." But the creation of Pennsylvania's $1 resident hunting license still was years away. And although the Legislature was allocating more funding to the Game Commission, Kalbfus needed even