You can no longer hide behind police officers to do your killing. You must use hunters, another blow to the guy who charges us $1352.81 per deer. You know, White Buffalo, a 501(c)(3).
I hope you are finally waking up, Commissioners. Tony DeNicola was laughing all the way to the bank and made you guys look like fools. Oh, and no more hiding, Commissioners.
Some have done so in a “robust” way, Raup said. Others meet the public hunting requirement using members of one particular sportsmen’s club. A few open things up to hunters passing a proficiency test.
Those situations are all acceptable, he said. Elected officials hiding behind a handful of police officers – so as to not to face opposition from anti-hunting constituents – is not, he added.
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The Pa Game Commission (PGC) is running a state sponsored blood "sport" business masquerading under the guise of conservation. The PGC artificially propagates the deer population to attain maximum sustained yield (M.S.Y.) for their hunter constituents.
“Deer are [artificially] managed on a Maximum Sustained Yield (M.S.Y.) principle to produce surpluses for hunter recreation. One M.S.Y. method is to kill excesses of bucks in order to alter the natural 1 to 1 male/female sex ratio, leaving 5 to 15 females for each male. This maximizes fawn production. Another M.S.Y. method is habitat manipulation. For example, the Wildlife Division of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Michigan increased the deer herd from 400,000 to one million by clear cutting 1.3 million acres of state forest to create deer browse. According to officials, this was done “because a forest managed by nature cannot produce a fraction of the deer needed by half a million hunters.” (The American Hunting Myth, Ron Baker, 1985)
Pa Game Commission Press Release
RECORD NUMBER OF ACRES TREATED WITH PRESCRIBED FIRE
(excerpts) During its spring burning season, the Game Commission treated a record 8,637 acres with prescribed fire to improve habitat on state game lands and Hunter Access properties statewide. ... This is especially great news for deer hunters who hunt on state game lands. The regeneration of tree species after a burn can result in a 400-percent increase in available food for deer, maximizing the habitat’s ability to provide for more whitetails. ... “The key to having more abundant deer populations is by providing better deer habitat,” said Game Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough. “Our deer program is focused on keeping the deer herd to maintain a balance with what the habitat can support. As you improve the habitat for deer, the area can also support more deer.” ... The agency’s prescribed burn program is one of the most effective means to improve deer hunting on game lands.
The PGC is directly responsible for creating an over abundant deer population and then they bully local municipalities by forcing communities to turn their parks and backyards into a hunting preserve for their hunter constituents, which put all families, children, and pets at lethal risk. The PGC should not have the authority to supersede local elected representative governments, which were elected by the taxpayers. This is not how democracies are supposed to run. The PGC has way too much power. This authority needs to be curtailed.
The PGC opposes all non-lethal humane deer management, because their hunter constituents want to kill tame deer in our parks and backyards, and selling hunting licenses and keeping their hunter constituents happy is their main priority and focus. Their focus is not the safety of municipality residents.
The PGC is run by hunters for hunters. This entire paradigm has to change. It’s time for this antiquated agency and deer management hunting paradigm to evolve from a game commission into a real conservation agency where all public stake holders hold seats on the management board.
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