Radio Smart Talk for Monday, August 1:
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is charged with "managing wildlife and its habitat for current and future generations." A few weeks ago, Radio Smart Talk focused on a proposal to allow hunting on Sundays. That program generated a lot of interest from hunters and non-hunters alike. At a meeting last month, the Game Commission approved a resolution in support of legislation to allow hunting on Sundays.
On Monday's program, we'll follow up on the Sunday hunting discussion and address several other topics related to wildlife and the outdoors in Pennsylvania, including leasing of State Game Lands for natural gas drilling, the Commission's on-going deer management program, and the shrinking number of young people who are hunting.
PA Game Commission press secretary Jerry Feaser will be our guest.
What questions do you have about wildlife and the outdoors in Pennsylvania?
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I'm far more concerned about the loss of habitat for wildlife from logging and gas drilling on public lands. Hunting is taking a hit, but it's not because we can't hunt on Sunday's.
I have a few questions for you.
Is there really a need for three distinct agencies that manage public lands in PA? How are they different?
Has a merger of DCNR, Fish and Boat, and
Game Commission ever been discussed?
Would there be efficiencies gained by doing do?
Thank you,
Matt
I recommend going to Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna in MD in December and January if you want to see bald eagles in the wild. They congregate at the dam to fish since the water remains open immediately below the dam even when frozen over everywhere else. We have seen as many as 27 at a time.
Thank you for the information. I'm planning to a take an eagle-siting road trip soon. I hope to be able to take a few photographs. I'll post the photos on our website if I do. Again, thanks.
• The claim of we “need time on Sundays" ignores the fact that most everybody else (members of other recreation groups) also work 40 hour work weeks and some half-days on Saturday..
• If Sunday hunting were enacted (and the legislation requires the PGC to do so), hunting seasons would have to be shortened in order to regulate the harvest. This fact of life has been ignored.
• The “5,300 jobs” number thrown about by proponents is based on IF EVERY Sunday in the year were open to hunting. That’s like saying that I could earn $120,000 a year if I were to work 90-hour work weeks.
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