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Puublic cooperation sought after seven geese poached near Columbia
State News September 20, 2024 Digital Correspondent
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The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is seeking assistance from the public in an ongoing investigation involving seven illegally harvested Canada geese found in Columbia. Local Conservation Agents Brandon Cotter and Adam Doerhoff are searching for information about the poachers who abandoned the geese along Rock Quarry Road.
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According to the MDC, the geese were shot and left on the roadside, with none of the bird’s parts used. The discovery was made on Sunday, September 15, after several citizens reported the carcasses to local conservation agents. Since the early Canada goose hunting season does not start until October 5, the incident is being classified as a poaching case.
Conservation officials emphasize that public reporting plays an essential role in protecting Missouri’s wildlife.
“We rely on citizen cooperation to identify and apprehend poachers who have no regard for Missouri’s fish, forest, and wildlife resources,” said Randy Doman, MDC Protection Branch Chief.
Anyone with information that may assist in the investigation is encouraged to reach out to Boone County Conservation Agents Brandon Cotter at (573) 777-2072 or Adam Doerhoff at (573) 239-6541. Additionally, individuals can call the Operation Game Thief hotline at 1-800-392-1111, which is operated 24 hours a day, with the option to remain anonymous.
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Big Changes for Hunters in New York This Year
CJ McIntyrePublished: September 18, 2024Canva
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Hunting season arrives in New York State soon and all hunters need to be aware of two big changes this year before they head into the woods.
As fall approaches in the Hudson Valley many of us get excited for everything that comes along with it. We’ve said it many times, there is no place we would rather be during the fall months than in the Hudson Valley. The apples, pumpkins, cooler temperatures, leaves changing colors, time around a fire pit, and for some the beginning of various hunting seasons.
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The Hudson Valley has long been a destination for hunters from all over New York State. We are lucky enough to have various types of wildlife running around and depending on the time of year, they are free to harvest. The “big draw” hunting season each year is deer hunting and this year the white-tailed deer hunting season starts in the Hudson Valley region on October 1st according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).
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The bow hunting season runs in the “Southern Zone” of New York from October 1st through November 15th allowing bow hunters to hunt deer legally. The regular season (rifle) begins in New York in 2024 on November 16th and runs through December 8th.
Hunting Changes in New York 2024
This year the NYSDEC has announced changes to the “tags” that hunters are required to have to hunt. The first change will give hunters the ability to print out their tags themselves. The change will allow hunters to be ready before the season begins and will also help the DEC decrease its carbon footprint since it will no longer use plastic according to WBNG.
Additionally, hunters in New York will no longer be required to have a back tag on their clothing while they are out hunting in the woods. DEC Big Game Biologist Brendan Quirion told WBNG that New York was one of the last states that required hunters to wear the tag on their backs while hunting. For more information on hunting licenses and the dates of specific seasons check out the DEC online here.
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Big trouble brewing for hunting culture
- Bill Cooper
- Sep 17, 2024 Updated Sep 17, 2024
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Sportsmen all over America have celebrated the success of the North American model of hunter-funded conservation, but the approach contained a flaw that is now threatening to undo the grand works of an entire generation of conservation minded people.
Hunters and conservationists have been so single-mindedly focused on saving, enhancing, and restoring wildlife habitat, that they forgot to tell the 95 percent of Americans who do not hunt what we were doing to vastly improve the fish, wildlife and landscape of our country. In the wake of our many conservation success stories, a coalition of animal rights groups have exploited our blind spot to make hunting culturally toxic to an ever-growing number of Americans. Simply stated, we were distracted by meaningful work while anti-hunting groups reinforced their stranglehold on the court of public opinion.
While sportsmen were busy renewing forests, creating the national wildlife refuge system, managing prairies and other habitats, anti-hunting organizations ran largely unopposed in the cultural realm as they co-opted corporate media, intimidated big brands into submission with mass social media campaigns, harnessed big tech, and cultivated celebrity ambassadors for their cause that included famous names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin, Pink, and Olivia Moon, and many others.
The top ten anti-hunting organizations alone boast a combined 31 million members, have almost 7,000 employees, and generate $1.1 billion annually. Humane Society of the United States and PETA alone account for 19 million members, about 4 million more members than America has hunters. And there are hundreds more anti-hunters groups. Think about that.
While our hunting community was planting seeds of a better future for wildlife, anti-hunting groups were busy sewing seeds of doubt about hunters in the minds of the majority of Americans who do not hunt. One of the most recent prices of our negligence to educate is the rise in the idea of ballot box biology-the ability of animal welfare groups to buy signatures and place anti-hunting propositions on state ballots. These groups know that fewer than 5% of Americans now hunt, so the vast majority of the country’s citizens are vulnerable to being swayed with emotional campaigns that, to date, have trumped the narrative that science-based wildlife management is the only logical path forward. In the process the antis have marginalized the role of fish and wildlife agencies by attacking their science and credibility in the eyes of non-hunters.
While we often see outdoor industry funded polls that show that the majority of Americans support hunting as a wildlife management tool. The results of those polls do not seem to hold up in the face of ballot measures with emotionally charged media and well-organized educational campaigns. Anti-hunting groups have defined ‘trophy hunting’ as abhorrent to the mainstream (although it doesn’t represent reality) and are looking to change the language to make it synonymous with all types of hunting. They have successfully influenced the public as hunting groups have largely left those assertions unchallenged. Big mistake. Hunters are often so insulted from mainstream viewpoints they are sometimes dismayed that most people in this country do not realize all the good that have done for wildlife.
Roughly 26 states have the referendum process, which is often referred to as ‘direct democracy,’ where citizens, not elected officials, make key decisions. That is the apparatus the sporting community has built to lobby legislatures and the Congress is mostly irrelevant against propositions decided by the will of uninformed voters or a public under the media influence of special interests. As noble as direct democracy may sound, the process has become little more than fertile ground for anti-hunting groups to wield their influence in the court of public opinion.
Colorado is the frontline of this new war on wildlife, a proving ground where anti-hunting groups are perfecting the model they will most assuredly transport to a state near you very soon. This November it’s an effort to ban mountain lion, bobcat and lynx hunting (never mind that lynx barely exist in Colorado and aren’t currently hunted or trapped). The strategy behind it is clear: If successful, the anti-hunting groups will eventually create an abundance of apex predators on the landscape through their ballot measures (wolf introductions, black bears—which cannot be hunted over bait or with hounds—and mountain lions). When that happens, the question will be why do we need hunters to control elk and deer populations? Guess what the answer will be by the 95% of the population that does not hunt?
It’s easy to write Colorado off as having been surrendered to the Californication of the West, an isolated island of irrationality. But, ask yourself if hunters in your state are prepared for a vote on the efficacy of hunting when 95 percent or more of the population has no vested interest and limited understanding of its benefits? Would your hunting friends and family be prepared to push back against well-funded emotional campaigns that are not bound by truth, where our opponents have bought scientists to support their specious narratives?
As a hunting community, we’ve been flat-footed in our response and are very late to the mainstream messaging wars. We celebrate our conservation successes mostly with ourselves, convincing one another that we are the true champions of conservation, and we are. Problem is, few in the mainstream know the species and habitats that have been resurrected because of the efforts and dollars of hunters, that we have cleaner air and water, and healthier soils because of the efforts of those same people.
We have reached an inflection point now where the camo coalition of hunter-funded unlimited, society, and forever groups must pivot and embrace a broader mission to build enduring connections to the mainstream. Self-imposed Pittman-Robertson taxes (our money) must be shifted to include managing hunting as a brand to the mainstream, something far bigger and bolder than the well-intentioned but limited R3 program (the industry’s effort to Recruit, Retain and Reactivate more hunters). Simply put, if we do not have hunting, who will care about habitat efforts anyway? No hunting means no conservation funding and, with that reality, is this how the celebrated North American conservation model dies?
The question we all have to answer is, what are we willing to do to win and preserve the lifestyle of hunting, which defines our very existence?
Sportsmen all over America have celebrated the success of the North American model of hunter-funded conservation, but the approach contained a flaw that is now threatening to undo the grand works of an entire generation of conservation minded people.
Hunters and conservationists have been so single-mindedly focused on saving, enhancing, and restoring wildlife habitat, that they forgot to tell the 95 percent of Americans who do not hunt what we were doing to vastly improve the fish, wildlife and landscape of our country. In the wake of our many conservation success stories, a coalition of animal rights groups have exploited our blind spot to make hunting culturally toxic to an ever-growing number of Americans. Simply stated, we were distracted by meaningful work while anti-hunting groups reinforced their stranglehold on the court of public opinion.
While sportsmen were busy renewing forests, creating the national wildlife refuge system, managing prairies and other habitats, anti-hunting organizations ran largely unopposed in the cultural realm as they co-opted corporate media, intimidated big brands into submission with mass social media campaigns, harnessed big tech, and cultivated celebrity ambassadors for their cause that included famous names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin, Pink, and Olivia Moon, and many others.
The top ten anti-hunting organizations alone boast a combined 31 million members, have almost 7,000 employees, and generate $1.1 billion annually. Humane Society of the United States and PETA alone account for 19 million members, about 4 million more members than America has hunters. And there are hundreds more anti-hunters groups. Think about that.
While our hunting community was planting seeds of a better future for wildlife, anti-hunting groups were busy sewing seeds of doubt about hunters in the minds of the majority of Americans who do not hunt. One of the most recent prices of our negligence to educate is the rise in the idea of ballot box biology-the ability of animal welfare groups to buy signatures and place anti-hunting propositions on state ballots. These groups know that fewer than 5% of Americans now hunt, so the vast majority of the country’s citizens are vulnerable to being swayed with emotional campaigns that, to date, have trumped the narrative that science-based wildlife management is the only logical path forward. In the process the antis have marginalized the role of fish and wildlife agencies by attacking their science and credibility in the eyes of non-hunters.
While we often see outdoor industry funded polls that show that the majority of Americans support hunting as a wildlife management tool. The results of those polls do not seem to hold up in the face of ballot measures with emotionally charged media and well-organized educational campaigns. Anti-hunting groups have defined ‘trophy hunting’ as abhorrent to the mainstream (although it doesn’t represent reality) and are looking to change the language to make it synonymous with all types of hunting. They have successfully influenced the public as hunting groups have largely left those assertions unchallenged. Big mistake. Hunters are often so insulted from mainstream viewpoints they are sometimes dismayed that most people in this country do not realize all the good that have done for wildlife.
Roughly 26 states have the referendum process, which is often referred to as ‘direct democracy,’ where citizens, not elected officials, make key decisions. That is the apparatus the sporting community has built to lobby legislatures and the Congress is mostly irrelevant against propositions decided by the will of uninformed voters or a public under the media influence of special interests. As noble as direct democracy may sound, the process has become little more than fertile ground for anti-hunting groups to wield their influence in the court of public opinion.
Colorado is the frontline of this new war on wildlife, a proving ground where anti-hunting groups are perfecting the model they will most assuredly transport to a state near you very soon. This November it’s an effort to ban mountain lion, bobcat and lynx hunting (never mind that lynx barely exist in Colorado and aren’t currently hunted or trapped). The strategy behind it is clear: If successful, the anti-hunting groups will eventually create an abundance of apex predators on the landscape through their ballot measures (wolf introductions, black bears—which cannot be hunted over bait or with hounds—and mountain lions). When that happens, the question will be why do we need hunters to control elk and deer populations? Guess what the answer will be by the 95% of the population that does not hunt?
It’s easy to write Colorado off as having been surrendered to the Californication of the West, an isolated island of irrationality. But, ask yourself if hunters in your state are prepared for a vote on the efficacy of hunting when 95 percent or more of the population has no vested interest and limited understanding of its benefits? Would your hunting friends and family be prepared to push back against well-funded emotional campaigns that are not bound by truth, where our opponents have bought scientists to support their specious narratives?
As a hunting community, we’ve been flat-footed in our response and are very late to the mainstream messaging wars. We celebrate our conservation successes mostly with ourselves, convincing one another that we are the true champions of conservation, and we are. Problem is, few in the mainstream know the species and habitats that have been resurrected because of the efforts and dollars of hunters, that we have cleaner air and water, and healthier soils because of the efforts of those same people.
We have reached an inflection point now where the camo coalition of hunter-funded unlimited, society, and forever groups must pivot and embrace a broader mission to build enduring connections to the mainstream. Self-imposed Pittman-Robertson taxes (our money) must be shifted to include managing hunting as a brand to the mainstream, something far bigger and bolder than the well-intentioned but limited R3 program (the industry’s effort to Recruit, Retain and Reactivate more hunters). Simply put, if we do not have hunting, who will care about habitat efforts anyway? No hunting means no conservation funding and, with that reality, is this how the celebrated North American conservation model dies?
The question we all have to answer is, what are we willing to do to win and preserve the lifestyle of hunting, which defines our very existence?
