Fri
Jan 21 2011
09:41 am
By: WhitesCreek
The TWRA committee has unanimously recommended a two year moratorium on a vote to allow hunting of sandhill cranes in TN. The full Commission votes today.
TWRA's own poll shows Tennesseans about evenly split on this issue with opposed having a slight majority. Other polls show heavy opposition. Surprisingly, when people with hunting licenses are polled they had about a third opposed to a hunt. That is very surprising that that high a number of hunters don't want it. I would have thought the number would be 4% or 8%. I'll be in meetings today and will post more later.
Also, I chatted with the new TDEC Commissioner, Bob Martineau, and think we may not be as bad off as I first assumed. I remain cautiously optimistic.
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Good for them. After the
Good for them. After the slaughter of three whooping cranes in Georgia a few weeks ago, we can not afford any step that makes such a tragedy, intentional or accidental, more likely.
WhitesCreek
WhitesCreek testifies...
(And got his photo in the Tennessean.)
Many of these 'hunters' are just fishermen
Many of these 'hunters' who voted against the hunting of sandhill cranes may not be hunters at all. When I went to get my fishing license and trout stamp last fall for the first time in a number of years, I discovered that it is now a (costly) combination hunting/fishing license.
I voted 'no'. I don't hunt and never have but I carry the paperwork so I guess I R 1.
Must Read...with pictures
(link...)
Interesting...TWRA Waylaying Migrating Cranes
If you follow the trend from this State of Ohio study it appears that by planting bait corn at the Hiwassee refuge, TWRA is creating an artificial over population, which spills over into surrounding farms with winter crops.
(link...)