AR-News: (US NC) Wilson County may be leading charge toward more stringent hunting regula

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Washington Daily News
Sunday, June 27, 2004
 
 
By FRED BONNER, Outdoor Writer           
In what is reported to be a unanimous decision, the  Wilson County 
Commissioners have a new local law may be leading the state into  what could be a very 
restrictive hunting regulations for hunters. It would  require the written 
permission of landowners to anyone hunting any species of  game animals on lands 
not belonging to him.  
Apparently this is not presently required on a state-wide  basis.

So, what's new? Many local areas of the state require this of  hunters and, 
if things continue on the downward spiral of very restrictive rules  for 
sportsman, this could well get worse. The H--- of it is that this is a law  
(regulation) that might be in needed over the entire  state.

Unfortunately, a few "bad apples in the barrel" of outdoorsmen are  bringing 
these restrictions down on all of our heads.

There aren't many  landowners in our state that can't tell horror stories abo
ut conflicts between  themselves and hunters on their land. As the human 
population increases,  available land on which to hunt shrinks in proportion to the 
numbers of hunters.  What used to be huge tracts of land have been divided, 
sub-divided and  re-sub-divided until hunters (particularly dog hunters) find 
it difficult to  confine their activities to a particular tract of ground.

I'd hate to  think how many times landowners have told me about dog hunters 
telling them that  "our dogs can't read your posted signs." It's a common 
occurrence for unethical  hunters to drive onto a public road, release their dogs 
onto land that they have  no idea who owns, then wait for the dogs to drive 
game into an area where they  can be killed.



full  story:
_http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2004/06/27/sports/sports03.txt_ 
(http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2004/06/27/sports/sports03.txt)   






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