PA Senator's request to Game Commission
01-07-2005 | 08:53 AM
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Policy change sought to boost state deer herd
01/05/2005
HARRISBURG — State Sen. Richard A. Kasunic (D-Fayette/Somerset) called on the Pennsylvania Game Commission to implement three administrative proposals aimed at increasing the size of the state deer herd.
Kasunic, an avid hunter, is proposing the commission decrease the number of doe licenses, return to the past practice of holding separate doe and buck seasons, with the doe season consisting of a three-day season and, finally, make deer management areas smaller to better manage the deer herd.
“Over the past several weeks, many hunters throughout my senatorial district are approaching me with one thing in mind — all of them saw very few or no deer during this year’s hunting season,” Kasunic stated in a letter to seven Game Commissioners. There is currently one vacancy on the eight-member board.
The Fayette County lawmaker said there are likely many reasons for the decreased size of the deer herd, but pointed to two regulatory measures that he said are having an adverse effect.
Calling it an “if it’s brown, it’s down” hunting strategy, Kasunic said an excessive doe hunting license allocation has resulted in many deer left lying in the forest. He added that the concurrent doe and buck season is also adversely affecting the size of the herd.
“We must protect our wildlife resources not only for this generation, but for future generations as well,” Kasunic wrote.
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Policy change sought to boost state deer herd
01/05/2005
HARRISBURG — State Sen. Richard A. Kasunic (D-Fayette/Somerset) called on the Pennsylvania Game Commission to implement three administrative proposals aimed at increasing the size of the state deer herd.
Kasunic, an avid hunter, is proposing the commission decrease the number of doe licenses, return to the past practice of holding separate doe and buck seasons, with the doe season consisting of a three-day season and, finally, make deer management areas smaller to better manage the deer herd.
“Over the past several weeks, many hunters throughout my senatorial district are approaching me with one thing in mind — all of them saw very few or no deer during this year’s hunting season,” Kasunic stated in a letter to seven Game Commissioners. There is currently one vacancy on the eight-member board.
The Fayette County lawmaker said there are likely many reasons for the decreased size of the deer herd, but pointed to two regulatory measures that he said are having an adverse effect.
Calling it an “if it’s brown, it’s down” hunting strategy, Kasunic said an excessive doe hunting license allocation has resulted in many deer left lying in the forest. He added that the concurrent doe and buck season is also adversely affecting the size of the herd.
“We must protect our wildlife resources not only for this generation, but for future generations as well,” Kasunic wrote.
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Lefty Pa
01-07-2005 | 10:06 AM
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I think it will.
Pa has gone through hatchet men before. As Roger Latham can attest, and the reductions are done as long and as far as they can until sportsmen push back and protest. These periodic corrections take place every decade. Some years its done quitely (like 80's) and some years it is done with trumpets and fanfare and marching bands like Gary Alt, but the result is that sportsmen get tired of being second class citizens and they begin to ask for decent hunting again.....
......and the commission reacts accordingly. Its know by its technical term 'widlife politics'. It is the one constant in all wildlife management.
Polulations fluctuate, but the constant struggle of biologists urging reductions, and sportsmen wanting decent hunting goes on 24x7 365.
Always has, always will.
Soooooo.... we have gone through several years of reductions and we now have the natural reaction of sportsmen pushing back and asking for help from politicians because the agency tasked with managing ALL widlife for ALL pa residents (not just hunters) is in a phase where they do not want to listen to hunters. If the commissioners won't help, if the exec director won't, if biologists are deaf except for environemental extremists, then we go to the one source left.
Senator whats-his-name....
Dr. At quit in frustration because he knows its coming. He is still trying to put down hunters and ridicule the state for wanting to include sportsmens concerns in the discussion of wildlife management. And thats pertty tacky considering that your pap and my pap and you and me have paid all the bills for widlife management for 100 years in pa with no non-hunters paying anything. yet now he wants the commission to ignore the wishes of hunters who have dedicated time, money, volunteered, preserved 1.4 million acres and let ecoweenies in Audubon and GreenPeace dictate to hunters how things will go in pa.
Let me tell ya', hunters were fed up with herd reductions and now they are REALLY riled up since Dr. Alt has said that he wants the PGC funding to be taken away from hardworking hunters and thier families and turn it over to a new funding system where soccer moms and greenpeace weenies get to have a say in our hunting because when you take thier money.....................you have to let them take a seat at the wildlife managment table.
And if you thought less deer = less deer, wait until you see the less deer + less of everything because soccer moms are now in charge.
Pa has gone through hatchet men before. As Roger Latham can attest, and the reductions are done as long and as far as they can until sportsmen push back and protest. These periodic corrections take place every decade. Some years its done quitely (like 80's) and some years it is done with trumpets and fanfare and marching bands like Gary Alt, but the result is that sportsmen get tired of being second class citizens and they begin to ask for decent hunting again.....
......and the commission reacts accordingly. Its know by its technical term 'widlife politics'. It is the one constant in all wildlife management.
Polulations fluctuate, but the constant struggle of biologists urging reductions, and sportsmen wanting decent hunting goes on 24x7 365.
Always has, always will.
Soooooo.... we have gone through several years of reductions and we now have the natural reaction of sportsmen pushing back and asking for help from politicians because the agency tasked with managing ALL widlife for ALL pa residents (not just hunters) is in a phase where they do not want to listen to hunters. If the commissioners won't help, if the exec director won't, if biologists are deaf except for environemental extremists, then we go to the one source left.
Senator whats-his-name....
Dr. At quit in frustration because he knows its coming. He is still trying to put down hunters and ridicule the state for wanting to include sportsmens concerns in the discussion of wildlife management. And thats pertty tacky considering that your pap and my pap and you and me have paid all the bills for widlife management for 100 years in pa with no non-hunters paying anything. yet now he wants the commission to ignore the wishes of hunters who have dedicated time, money, volunteered, preserved 1.4 million acres and let ecoweenies in Audubon and GreenPeace dictate to hunters how things will go in pa.
Let me tell ya', hunters were fed up with herd reductions and now they are REALLY riled up since Dr. Alt has said that he wants the PGC funding to be taken away from hardworking hunters and thier families and turn it over to a new funding system where soccer moms and greenpeace weenies get to have a say in our hunting because when you take thier money.....................you have to let them take a seat at the wildlife managment table.
And if you thought less deer = less deer, wait until you see the less deer + less of everything because soccer moms are now in charge.
01-07-2005 | 11:32 AM
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RE: PA Senator's request to Game Commission
the day we hunters in Pa allow the PGC to take funding from anyone but hunters is the day the death toll starts to ring for hunting as we know it.
I remeber when it was discussed about charging a user fee for Game Lands to all citizens, mtn. bikers,flower sniffers etc. and the Commissioners themselves struck it down because they knew once these "eccoweenies' purchase a say in how we run things on our own ground it will NO LONGER BE OUR OWN GROUND or SPORT.
** if as usual anyone demands that I show proof of the before emntioned statement I'll tell them now....go to the archives of the PGC website an look it up yourself, it's in there.
I remeber when it was discussed about charging a user fee for Game Lands to all citizens, mtn. bikers,flower sniffers etc. and the Commissioners themselves struck it down because they knew once these "eccoweenies' purchase a say in how we run things on our own ground it will NO LONGER BE OUR OWN GROUND or SPORT.
** if as usual anyone demands that I show proof of the before emntioned statement I'll tell them now....go to the archives of the PGC website an look it up yourself, it's in there.
