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Negative spin builds against lake turbines | News, Sports, Jobs - Observer Today Right before the summer season officially began along the lakefront, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed made a stop at the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club in Dunkirk. Tho

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Personal View: Environmental impact statement needed for Icebreaker Its becoming rough sledding for Icebreaker, the proposed wind turbine farm in Lake Erie off Cleveland by the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo), as more groups are calling for a full environmental impact statement (EIS) to be undertaken before

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Where have all the hunters gone? Numbers in WNY shrink rapidly More Erie County residents hold hunting licenses than any other county in the state – by far. But the number of hunters is shrinking at a

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STATEMENT OF NYSCC BIG GAME COMMITTEE
REGARDING S4739 AND ANY SIMILAR BILLS
By Rich Davenport, Co-Chair

In regard to recently introduced Senate S4739, a bill to impose mandatory antler restriction on hunters for buck harvest across NYS, the NYSCC Big Game Committee is not only opposed to this bill in total, but is appalled and disappointed by yet another selfish attempt to undermine the NYS DEC and its ability to effectively manage whitetail deer on behalf of the People of NY.

It is policy of the NYSCC to maintain much responsibility for wildlife management within the authority of the NYSDEC and its wildlife professionals, rather than having management dictated by politicians through a process which cannot ever respond to the often rapidly changing landscape of stewarding our wild treasures.

To be clear, no support of significance exists for mandatory antler restriction, either via regulatory or legislative action. The recent DEC-sponsored study conducted by Cornell University concerning this issue revealed as much. This very expensive and extensive study confirmed NYSCC’s position. For a number of years policy resolutions were submitted to the Big Game Committee, made up of representatives from the organized sporting community across NYS. Each resolution failed to gain the positive recommendation of the Committee and failed official adoption by vote of the statewide membership during NYSCC’s Annual Meeting. We also note the sponsor’s memo for this bill cites a survey done in 2006 rather than the most recent study results released in 2015 – which in our eyes is deceitful at best.

Our position has been education over regulation or legislation, and the DEC’s structured decision-making study confirmed this is the best course of action to take concerning alternative buck management, and this is the approach adopted.

Further, considering the incredible time and effort wildlife officials at the DEC spent on the issue of mandatory antler restriction -- dealing with pilot programs, FOIL requests, continual headaches dealing with attempts to legally handcuff their capacities by those unqualified to decide on wildlife management decisions and direction -- they had asked for no further efforts concerning mandatory AR for at least the next 3-5 years.

Yet, once again, the agenda of one very small group with questionable credentials cannot seem to respect the wildlife management and deer management challenges NYS faces. Larger issues such as chronic wasting disease (CWD) prevention and overcoming suburban and urban deer management challenges take far higher priority. Crop damage and public health concerns such as rising rates of Lyme disease would not improve by further restricting NY hunters from being effective deer management tools. Harvest rates will admittedly drop with AR implementation, a costly and counter-intuitive “benefit” to the goals of S4739. And let us not forget that from a biological standpoint, mandatory AR in any form is completely unnecessary in NYS, as DEC big game biologists have repeatedly stated over the past 8 years.

We are understandably appalled and disappointed with this bill’s introduction and are adamantly opposed to its entirety for the above reasons. We therefore urge the NYS Senate and all members of the NYS Legislature to reject this bill and future bills of its kind and continue to allow wildlife professionals to do their jobs.

New York State Conservation Council

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www.buffalonews.com A Blasdell martial arts school is offering free training to all veterans through the rest of the year.The Red Dragon School of Martial Arts, inside the McKinley Mall, is making the offer to help soldiers more easily assimilate into home life after returning from duty, or to continue one

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DIY: Make Your Own Shoot-and-See Targets

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Sportsman Education Course Schedule - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

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Changes Proposed for State Deer Hunting Regulation to Implement Five-Year Management Plan - NYS Dept

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dec.ny.gov The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today proposed rules affecting deer and bear hunting in New York to implement the state’s Five-Year Deer Management Plan, Commissioner Joe Martens announced today.

Gun debate sparked by microstamp on shell casings

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