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Sportsmen Amend Lawsuit after DEP Commissioner Nixes Bear Hunt (Click for details)
New Jersey’s top environmental official has terminated the 2006 bear hunt. In response, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, along with Safari Club International and the New Jersey State Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, have amended their recently filed lawsuit against the state to challenge the cancellation and allow bear hunting permits to be issued.
Radio Legend Lets Anti-Hunting Colors Fly High (Click for details)
One of America’s most well-known radio commentators earlier this week showed his anti-hunting colors in a nationally broadcast message.
Deer Hunt Protestors Chain Selves to Diocese Doors (Click for details)
Two New York anti-hunters were arrested this week after chaining themselves to the entrance of a Catholic diocese building to protest a deer cull.
U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Restructured Under New Leadership
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance is monitoring how choices made by voters on Nov. 7 will impact sportsmen’s rights. Some of the first signs of change are occurring. Barbara Boxer, D-California, has been named U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman and is restructuring the committee.
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance is monitoring this situation. It will continue to update sportsmen as more information becomes available.
Time Will Tell What Election Day Changes Will Mean to Sportsmen (Click for details)
Millions of voters cast their ballots on November 7, and their choices have resulted in a dramatic shift in state and federal leadership. The coming months will show how the changes will impact sportsmen’s rights.
Anti’s Buy Election Victory in Michigan - Voters Reject Dove Hunt (Click for details)
On November 7, Michigan voters defeated Proposal 3, a referendum that would have allowed mourning dove hunting, by a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent. Anti-hunters financed the multi-million dollar campaign.
Scheduling of Bear Hunt Classes Does Not Guarantee New Jersey Hunt (Click for details)
Gov. Jon Corzine’s cancellation of New Jersey’s 2006 bear hunt hasn’t deterred the state Department of Environmental Protection from scheduling required classes for potential hunters. The whole issue hangs on the success of the lawsuit brought by the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and other sportsmen’s groups seeking to overturn the governor’s action.
Anti’s Protest Bear Hunt on Virginia Refuge (Click for details)
Anti-hunters are pressuring federal officials to cancel a black bear hunt at a Virginia National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).
Sportsmen Sue to Protect New Jersey’s Bear Hunt
(Trenton) - New Jersey’s black bear season is in trouble again and three sportsmen’s conservation organizations have banded together to make sure that black bear hunting in New Jersey takes places this season.
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund (U.S. SLDF), the litigation program of the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (USSAF), Safari Club International, and the New Jersey State Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs have joined forces to sue the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Division of Fish and Wildlife to challenge New Jersey’s refusal to move forward with the black bear season.
Although the season is set to begin on Dec. 4, state officials have taken no action to implement the hunt.
State statutes and regulations require that a hunt take place. New Jersey’s black bear management strategy, ordered in 2005 by the New Jersey Supreme Court, calls for bear hunting as an integral management tool.
However, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has directed state officials to use only “non-lethal methods” to control the state’s bear population. Despite increasing numbers of bear sightings and incidents, and the success of the state’s 2003 and 2005 bear seasons, Gov. Corzine has refused to permit wildlife officials to implement their scientifically derived strategy to manage bears and protect the public from overabundant bears this December. No permit applications have been solicited, no permits issued and no training classes scheduled.
The U.S. SLDF, Safari Club International and the New Jersey State Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs will jointly file suit to challenge the state’s refusal to move forward with the bear hunt.
“New Jersey’s governor has decided that politics are more important than the safety of residents in bear country and the health and stability of the bear population itself,” said Rob Sexton, vice president for government affairs of the USSAF. “It is up to people who truly care about wildlife conservation to stand up and defend sound principles of wildlife management and common sense.”
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund is the nation’s only litigation force that exclusively represents sportsmen’s interests in the courts. It defends wildlife management and sportsmen’s rights in local, state and federal courts. The SLDF represents the interests of sportsmen and assists government lawyers who have little or no background in wildlife law.
