April 23 Hunting and Fishing News
Friday, April 23, 2010
New Jersey Black Bear Management Policy Open for Public
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Please Stand Up and Make Your Voices Heard!
Last month, the NRA-ILA sent a statewide email which announced the first scheduled bear hunt in New Jersey since 2005. The information below provides an opportunity for your voice to be heard in support of the bear hunt.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the New Jersey Fish and Game Council have submitted the proposed, Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy (CBBMP) for publication in the April 19 edition of New Jersey Register.
A 60 day public comment period to the Division of Fish and Wildlife is now available with comments being accepted through June 18. It is imperative that wildlife policy makers hear from New Jersey residents today supporting this science based hunt, which for years was suppressed by Governor Jon Corzine (D) and his anti-hunting political appointees.
A public hearing will be held Tuesday, May 11 at 6pm in the New Jersey State Museum. Located at 205 West Street, Trenton, NJ.
Please show your support and do not let groups like PETA and the Humane Society of the United States stand in the way of science-based wildlife management and conservation with their virulent, unfounded anti-hunting rhetoric! You can either submit written comment to the address listed below or electronically through the Division of Fish and Wildlife at http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/bearpolicy10_comment.htm.
Larry Herrighty
CBBMP
Division of Fish and Wildlife
Dept. of Environmental Protection
P.O. Box 400
Trenton, NJ 08625-0400
GAME COMMISSIONERS ADOPTS 2010-11 SEASONS AND BAG LIMITS
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave final approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for 2010-11, including broad changes to deer, bear, turkey and small game seasons.
Following are several articles on meeting highlights.
PA BOARD ADDS OTHER WMUS TO SPLIT RIFLE DEER SEASONS
The Board of Game Commissioners gave final approval to a slate of deer seasons for the 2010-11 seasons that includes holding a split, five-day antlered deer season (Nov. 29-Dec. 3) and seven-day concurrent season (Dec. 4-11) in Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) 2C, 2D, 2E, 2G, 3C, 4B, 4D and 4E. The package retains the two-week (Nov. 29-Dec. 11) concurrent, antlered and antlerless deer season in the remaining 14 WMUs.
Two other changes adopted are to eliminate the two-week antlerless deer season held following the close of the regular firearms season leading up to Christmas in WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D, and to run a concurrent antlered/antlerless deer season for late-season archery hunters in WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D from Dec. 27-Jan. 29.
Hunters with DMAP antlerless deer permits may use them on the lands for which they were issued during any established deer season, and will continue to be permitted to harvest antlerless deer from Nov. 29-Dec. 11 in WMUs 2C, 2D, 2E, 2G, 3C, 4B, 4D and 4E.
Fees for DMAP permits are $10 for residents and $35 for nonresidents.
BOARD APPROVES ANTLERLESS DEER LICENSE ALLOCATIONS
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today approved antlerless license allocations for each of the 22 Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) for the 2010-11 seasons. After hunters purchase a general hunting license, they may apply for antlerless deer licenses based on staggered timelines, which are outlined in the Pennsylvania Hunting & Trapping Digest presented to each license buyer.
Based on a motion by Game Commissioner Thomas Boop, the antlerless deer license allocations approved by the Board will be reduced by the number of Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) antlerless deer permits issued in each WMU for the 2009-10 seasons. This reduced number will then be set aside as a maximum number of DMAP permits that will be made available for landowners during the 2010-11 seasons.
Boop’s motion also prohibits the issuance of more DMAP permits for the 2010-11 that were issued for the 2009-10 seasons for each WMU without further Board action.
The 2010 edition of Reef News is now available
on the NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife website.
Reef News highlights the activities and accomplishments of the NJ Artificial Reef Program and includes information on vessel deployments, reef statistics and locations, species profiles, a reef evaluation survey and much more.
To learn more about the Artificial Reef Program and to view and print Reef News visit http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/artreef.htm on the division's website.
Yesterday I sent an email stating that at the heart of the animal extremist movement is the agenda to foist a vegetarian lifestyle on humanity. Some groups are more covert than others about their intentions and use environmentalism and animal rights as a means to distract from their true agenda.
The NJOA has presented evidence in the past that groups like Animal Protection League of New Jersey (formerly New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance) Humane Society United States (H.S.U.S.) and other have similar agendas, some even going as far to lend support to domestic eco-terrorist groups (A.L.F. E.L.F., SHAC, etc.) as determined by the FBI. (read more at http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/eco/terrorism.html)
An Alert From The NJOA
Now a new New Jersey based animal extremist group has apparently formed (see below). You'll note that veganism and animal rights are the basis of their founding. Also, they openly announce their support of several known eco-terrorist organizations.
Remain vigilant and please participate in helping to keep our freedoms to enjoy the outdoors and be true environmental stewards.
Thank you.
NJOA
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Friends Of Animals United NJ (F.A.U.N.)
FAUN is a coalition of New Jersey-based animal/earth liberation activists who are bound by the twin objectives of EXPOSING and FIGHTING AGAINST the insidious perpetrators of overt & clandestine animal exploitation/use wherever they are operating in our geographic sphere.
We are firmly united in our commitment to unraveling animal-use industries' profit-driven lies, schemes and lucrative illusions, as well as engaging in the practical, street-level action so essential to bringing about the local (and ultimately universal) abolition of retrograde, dark-age practices that systematically exploit and destroy countless nonhuman sentient beings, and the Earth itself.
We employ our energies/resources in tactile, visible ways such as public demonstrations, marches, educational outreach and leafleting, to elevate public consciousness about the myriad, ugly, half-shrouded faces of modern animal slavery. We fight to cast light on, cause economic damage to and ultimately bring down the smug, shadowy, monolithic industries which are responsible for the systematic, irreversible rape/destruction of Mother Earth, her delicately balanced ecosystems, and of course, the billions of beautiful, wondrous sentient beings with whom we share this biosphere.
We UNAPOLOGETICALLY support and align ourselves with national and international direct action entities such as Sea Shepherd, ALF, ELF, Negotiation Is Over (NIO), H.O.P.E, SHARK and numerous other groups who understand that veganism & animal rights are quintessentially and inextricably tied to a sustainable human future, and more widely, to a sustainable future for all the fragile biotic communities supported/nourished by our great and ancient Mother Earth.
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Above and beyond our own initiatives, we promote and actively participate in the initiatives/engagements of local allies such as CAAF, NYC Animal Rights, W.A.R, Hearts for Animals, Mercy For Animals and others who share our ideological/practical objectives of promoting veganism and a universal, unconditional moratorium on all forms of animal slavery.
Everyone in the animal liberation movement who understands the breathtaking scale & severity of animal slavery, and the complex/culturally embedded nature of animal/earth exploitation systems, knows that ours is a colossal task. History reveals that moral progress/evolution is a slow, arduous, uphill battle. A conscientious, illuminated, compassionate world which unilaterally rejects all forms of animal objectification/suffering, which considers the inherent worth/natural rights of ALL sentient beings, simply will not happen overnight! It will be brought about by a persistent, disciplined, measured, unified effort by local activists collaborating toward universal, movement-wide objectives,as well as operating in their local environment, i.e.,campaigning in response to specific, local conditions and problems.
We don't pretend to have all the answers. FAUN is an egalitarian thought pool by design, welcoming the insights, ideas, and intel which will aid us in amping up the fight in the NY/NJ area with maximum efficacy and end-result impact. We are highly adaptive and mobile, willing/prepared to adjust our tactical approach/materials/tools as appropriate, to act on behalf of animals anywhere in our region, in any context that we can make a practical, tactile difference.
Fur and leather mafias, factory farm gestapos, fraudulent sadist vivisectors, cowardly hunters, emotionally/mentally stunted butchers, abominable circus thugs, vile animal breeding mills - our nausea, our aversion to ALL of you is unilateral and absolute.
We are bringing the battle for Mother Earth and her sacred, defenseless denizens to your doorstep, to the very gates of the posh, palatial mausoleums you have built systematically extinguishing innocents, where you have grinned and drooled over your helpless, dying quarry, where you have lined your pockets with blood and entrails, where the lingering screams of terror and unspeakable suffering will echo long after you and your evil works are reduced to a negligible, shameful blight on recorded history.
Animal Liberation WILL NOT advance unless we shake off the safe, ineffectual, ego-balming platform of coffeehouse veganism, unless we unify ourselves in solemn, sober commitment to our purpose, unless we convert our movement from a collection of self-flattering, armchair theories into a dynamic, pragmatic, effective set of practices.
Please keep in mind that FAUN is not looking to add vacant, meaningless numbers to our list of friends and compatriots. Token gestures and cordial votes of confidence do not (and never will) help animals or advance animal/earth liberation. We have the tools/material resources required to have a resounding, meaningful impact for animals and their habitats - what we need are caring, compassionate, noble people to pull up their bootstraps and stand alongside us out there, where it matters. Because they are suffering now.
If you are not serious about jumping in with us and taking the animal liberation struggle to the streets of NJ/NY, please be advised that this is NOT the group for you!
For those who have had enough and want to get involved, feel free to contact us.
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Remember, April 30 is the last day to get a FREE book about ecosystem health and the history of the NJOA with your new membership!
http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/support/membership/bonus.html
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Anthony P. Mauro, Sr
Chair
