By RICHARD COWEN
STAFF WRITER,The Record
www.northjersey.com

No bear management policy, no bear hunt.

That’s been the rule in New Jersey ever since 2004, when the state Supreme Court cancelled a proposed hunt because the state didn’t have a valid black bear management plan on the books.

That decision was brought to bear on Thursday, when an appeals court upheld Environmental Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson’s 2006 decision to withdraw approval of the Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy.

Jackson had done so to block a hunt proposed by the state Fish and Game Council.

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PRESS RELEASE:
 
The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, New Jersey’s Official NRA State Association is pleased to announce its annual “NRA Day at the Range.” The event will be held on Saturday, September 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Cherry Ridge Range, off Canistear Road in Highland Lakes.
 
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I have worn out keypads trying to energize hunters and fishers and trappers about how the US Fish and Wildlife Service, hunting and fishing equipment manufacturers (that are supposed to pay the excise taxes that support hunting and fishing), State fish and wildlife bureaucrats, and conservation organizations (whom we mistakenly assume are our protectors) are really in league with environmental and animal rights zealots to quietly abandon hunting and fishing programs for the promise of Federally funded environmental and animal protection schemes that are immeasurable and are touted to pay higher salaries to bureaucrats as they keep getting politicians reelected ad infinitum.

Wow, an eight-line sentence (97 words!): raise your hand if you are you still awake.

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 Tuesday will be the official start of the November elections campaign season.  Below are "3 Steps to Beat the Antis" that were sent to me by Anthony Maura, Sr., Chairman of the NJOA.  I would add an additional step if you haven't yet done so: SEND YOUR $30 CONTRIBUTION TO THE NJOA!!  Here again, is the web address: www.njoutdooralliance.org. 
 
Remember, even if you can't swing $30 right now, make sure you SEND SOMETHING.  Everything is riding on this election!  We must beat Panter and Karcher!!!  The antis are throwing everything into this election and we mustn't let them have their way.   There are roughly a mere 2500 members of the NJ Animal Rights Alliance across NJ, but they are taking this election VERY seriously and they have lots of money!!  If you didn't get a chance to read the post on SHARE, here's a snippet from the antis as it relates to the election in the 12th Legislative district:

3 Steps to Beat the Antis:

1. REGISTER TO VOTE: If you are not registered go to the link below and open/download the Voter Registration form. Fill it out and mail it in. It only takes a few minutes to complete.

http://www.nj.gov/oag/elections/voter-registration-application.html

2. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: Go to the link below and click on the area of the map where you live. Call/write your assembly representative and senator and ask them how they will vote on bill A-3275 (assembly) or S-2041 (senate). Let them know you want straight answer - they will either vote AGAINST the bills (they are on the side of anglers, hunters, trappers) or they will vote for the bills (they are with the antis.)

Let them know you want their answer in WRITING. Let them know you will not vote for anyone that will vote for bills A-3275 and S-2041.

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/njmap210.html

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The basic distinction between a Republic and a Dictatorship is the existence of private property. Private property exists in a Republic and it does not exist in a Dictatorship. Dictatorship covers the spectrum of oppressors from the Mugabe Dictatorship in Zimbabwe and the "limited" ("limited" meaning the government can rescind it in a heartbeat at their pleasure) communist governments in China and Vietnam to the "on-again, off-again" Russian "democracy" and the socialist rulers in places like Venezuela and Bolivia. Dictatorships "nationalize" property, dictate the use of any property, and take property from those they wish to punish and give it to those they wish to reward. In Dictatorships government "owns" everything: in a Republic the citizens "own" everything while giving limited control of certain property to government to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" per the opening words of the Constitution of the United States.

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