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Glad to see you're supporting Delaney, High Country.
The HG&F Committee strongly supports his appointment.
Who is on the committee ?
Pa. lawmaker not pleased with Game Commission committees
Sunday, March 11, 2007
The Game Commission
• A state lawmaker is going after the Game Commission for the way it runs its citizens advisory committees.
The committees are made up of sportsmen, farmers, forest landowners, conservationists, and others. Their purpose is to make recommendations to the commission on whether deer populations should go up, go down or stay the same in a particular wildlife management unit, based on deer-human conflicts.
There are four advisory committees in place this year, in wildlife management units 1B, 2C, 3B, and 5C. They are to finalize their recommendations before the end of March.
The problem is that the commission won't say publicly who is serving on each committee, nor will it allow the public to attend the groups' sessions.
State Rep. Bob Godshall, a Montgomery County Republican, took the agency to task over that stance at its January meeting. Then, this week, he introduced legislation that would require the commission to make all advisory council meetings public and post the names of committee members on its web site.
-- Bob Frye