Aug 2007
The Future of Wild Turkey Management and Hunting Access
08/08/07 14:13
from the
outdoorwire
In the early days, restoring the majestic wild turkey was the optimistic dream shared by hunters, wildlife agencies, biologists and a budding young conservation group called the National Wild Turkey Federation. The five subspecies of wild turkey, which once teetered on the brink of extinction, have returned to populations totaling more than 7 million strong.
While the restoration of the wild turkey in the United States and Canada is nearly complete, the plan to ensure the future of the wild turkey will be an enormous undertaking in constant progress. The NWTF will, once again, look to its volunteers, chapters and partners to keep the wild turkey around for many generations to come. The funds generated by sportsmen through the sale of hunting licenses and each state chapter's Hunting Heritage Super Fund that were used to restore the wild turkey, will now also be used to save their future.
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In the early days, restoring the majestic wild turkey was the optimistic dream shared by hunters, wildlife agencies, biologists and a budding young conservation group called the National Wild Turkey Federation. The five subspecies of wild turkey, which once teetered on the brink of extinction, have returned to populations totaling more than 7 million strong.
While the restoration of the wild turkey in the United States and Canada is nearly complete, the plan to ensure the future of the wild turkey will be an enormous undertaking in constant progress. The NWTF will, once again, look to its volunteers, chapters and partners to keep the wild turkey around for many generations to come. The funds generated by sportsmen through the sale of hunting licenses and each state chapter's Hunting Heritage Super Fund that were used to restore the wild turkey, will now also be used to save their future.
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State proposal: No bear hunt in '07
05/08/07 13:17 Filed in: NJ Bear
Issue
(newton) nj herald
By BRUCE A. SCRUTON
bscruton@njherald.com
The Fish and Game Council, faced with top politicians' objections to a bear hunt, has put forward a proposal to eliminate a bear hunt this year, but mandates a hunt in 2008 and 2009 if the number of serious bear-human encounters don't come down by nearly a third in each of the next two years.
"Council is not willing to subject the citizens of New Jersey to this level of risk to public safety and property damage for more than a year," says the proposed policy, which was sent to state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson at noon on Thursday.
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By BRUCE A. SCRUTON
bscruton@njherald.com
The Fish and Game Council, faced with top politicians' objections to a bear hunt, has put forward a proposal to eliminate a bear hunt this year, but mandates a hunt in 2008 and 2009 if the number of serious bear-human encounters don't come down by nearly a third in each of the next two years.
"Council is not willing to subject the citizens of New Jersey to this level of risk to public safety and property damage for more than a year," says the proposed policy, which was sent to state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson at noon on Thursday.
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Black bears getting grisly across state
01/08/07 14:27 Filed in: NJ Bear
Issue
BY FRED J. AUN
For the Star-Ledger
Scary incidents involving black bears keep happening across North Jersey even as the Corzine Administration continues to say hunting is not a valid way to stop them.
On July 13, a bear tried to enter a Knowlton woman's kitchen, where some freshly baked muffins were cooling, according to an official state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) report.
Four days later, said the DEP, a bear ripped off the window screens of a Vernon home and entered the kitchen.
And on the same day, a bear entered two tents in Worthington State Forest.
Despite these close calls, the DEP's commissioner, who canceled the 2006 bear hunt, remains steadfast in her position that non-lethal methods of bear control must prove to be failures before a tried-and-true means of wildlife population control -- hunting -- will be allowed.
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For the Star-Ledger
Scary incidents involving black bears keep happening across North Jersey even as the Corzine Administration continues to say hunting is not a valid way to stop them.
On July 13, a bear tried to enter a Knowlton woman's kitchen, where some freshly baked muffins were cooling, according to an official state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) report.
Four days later, said the DEP, a bear ripped off the window screens of a Vernon home and entered the kitchen.
And on the same day, a bear entered two tents in Worthington State Forest.
Despite these close calls, the DEP's commissioner, who canceled the 2006 bear hunt, remains steadfast in her position that non-lethal methods of bear control must prove to be failures before a tried-and-true means of wildlife population control -- hunting -- will be allowed.
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