Well, I always thought Bob McDowell was one of the good guy's. I think McGreevey is just doing his political thing by wanting to make his own appointment. Since I am on opposite sides on almost every issue with McGreevy, his new appointment scares me.

The problem is not specifically McDowell, or any one person there. The problem is that the majority of the members on the Fish and Game Council are representatives of the gun clubs in NJ. These are the people who like to be able to kill an unlimited number of deer, and have a long time to do it. Do you think they are going to vote to eliminate their extended gun seasons, and unlimited tags? The structure of how the regulations are devised needs to be changed. I'm not saying we need any anti-hunters on the Council, but the "if it's brown it's down" crowd needs to be fired.

Saturday, I had an elderly neighbor of mine call me at work to tell me there were several trucks parked at the fence to the property I post. She gave me the info and I called the local police and had them respond. He took their info and I'm going to sign complaints today on all seven of the poachers. However, after he left, they threatened to kill my elderly neighbor and burn her house down. She is a non-hunter, who I've had to work very hard on to get hunting, and hunters, portrayed in a positive light. It was working, until that. My point is that these extended seasons just invite this kind of thing. If the season was over, these guys would have stayed home. As it is, they have already hunted out their own spots, so they went looking for another. Cut back on the length of the season, and you will cut back many of these types of incidents.