Legislation

Video: Sportsmen oppose Fish & Wildlife Board changes

Senate committee takes more testimony today on controversial bill

John Klar, Will Staats, John Rodgers and Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Chris Herrick weigh in on a Senate bill that would declaw the Fish & Wildlife Board. Paul Bean/VDC video of Vermont Sportsmen’s Club Federation gathering at State House Tuesday.

Hundreds of Vermont hunters, anglers and trappers gathered at the State House Tuesday to learn more about legislation that would take rule-making power away from the Fish & Wildlife Board and require more unlicensed members to be non-hunters/anglers/trappers.

The bill also prohibits trapping coyotes and hunting them with dogs. If approved, it will go to the Senate for a full vote and then on to the House.

The Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee is taking more testimony today from both hunters and non-hunters and has scheduled committee discussion and mark-up – a ‘final edits’ phase that sometimes precedes a committee vote at its next meeting. The committee schedule for next week likely will be posted by Monday or over the weekend.


Discover more from Vermont Daily Chronicle

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Categories: Legislation, Outdoors

10 replies »

    • Evidence of what? That human beings aren’t the only animals that populate the earth? Been VT for 24 years & in upstate NY for over a decade. Never had a single “incident” with a coyote. Neither have my doggos.

  1. It is a “death by a thousand cuts” as one person stated in the video, that’s what’s happening in Vermont. Sun Tzu tactics. It’s also what’s happening to the whole of America by the illegitimate federal government in the white house, and by all of their minions, NGO’s, bureaucrats, businesses, dept. of un-education, dept. of un-healthcare, the climate hoax, etc. the list goes on.
    Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.

  2. reactionary disturber did it again/// i did not know humans were animals/// i can not find my other two legs///

    • It’s a scientific FACT: Human Beings are animals. Human beings are mammals. Human beings are primates. Reality. Fact.

  3. Is this an arena where we could do without any government involvement? Can the citizens themselves and their organizations manage on their own and avoid all this legislative dithering?

  4. you can always tell when the universal joint is loose in the drive shaft/// it does a lot of shaking

    • Don’t appreciate dialogue or debate or discourse? Don’t participate on forums.
      Here’s a partial quote from Shakespeare to counter your automobile analogy: “…..”thou protest too much, me thinks.

      ???

  5. reactionary disturber/// did it again/// those with no original thought process need the crutch of another persons quote/// this is a sign of projecting a mirror image of ones self///