RE: NY Hunter orange bill passed??
all empty warden positions have been filled with new wardens ---young fellas that get out of the truck--- we call them RoboRangers, you turn the key and they write a ticket.
The governor expects to see millions in revenue from violations this year, and $35 million from his new Handgun License Fee.
Each town that the citation is in also gets money, one week we took in $490 just from one RoboRanger in one town in fines for parents casting a bobber out for a little kid and the parents not having licenses.
another week we took in gobs of money in fines for people parking along the sides of state roads, which is illegal, more fines were for leaving tree stands on state land over night (storage of personal property) a couple were for archers trimming a branch from their stand (destruction of state property) and a pile of money came in for people putting up marking ribbon or using trail tacks and leaving trail cameras out on state land. all storage of personal property, damage to a tree and littering.
the ones that will knock folks over this summer is the picking of blueberries, raspberries,mushrooms and black berries on state land. Illegal so they say but i'm waiting on a ruling from last year when we pushed it into the legal department.
since the towns get the money many locals are going out of their way to report violations they normally would not have bothered with, like tree stands being left overnight and flagging.
Personally? I think if more people wrote letters to the DEC and Gov telling them that increasing fines and breaking tourists chops will result in more money in fines yes, but in the long run less tourism dollars spent in NY then we might get somewhere.
you can't threaten Pataki with less hunter dollars because he is anti-hunting and that sounds good to him.
If Pataki changed his veto on the Orange bill that is something that happened this last week, he had said July 13th, 2004 while he was here in Tupper that he would not pass a bill that was not season specific...he pointedly mentioned duck hunters. Also he still thinks that 500 sq inches is not enough, even though it has been pointed out to him that an adult hooded jacket is 500 sq inches, he says more is needed.
I'll call our senators and assemblymen tomorrow so if you can tell me where Pataki said he was passing it that would be a nice help.
DEC's statement to the hunting fraternity was a quote off their website "There is no law in New York State requiring hunters to wear hunter orange, but most do. Over 80 percent of big game hunters wear it, as well as two out of three small game hunters."
We used that to point out that creating a new law would effect less than 20% of the hunters as the vast majority are already compliant.
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