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State asking for big game plan input



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The Associated Press - Published: July 5, 2009

WATERBURY — The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is looking for help from the public in writing a new 10-year big game management plan.

The plan will help the state manage populations of deer, moose, black bear and wild turkey.

The draft plan calls for updating the inventory of deer wintering areas, continuing to stress the important of habitat conservation and working closely with scientists to eliminate the threat of the hemlock wooly adelgid, an invasive insect that destroys trees.

The plan is the culmination of public survey data, biological data, public input meetings and department thinking about managing the species.

Some options being considered include population management objectives, timing of hunting seasons and the means of taking game.







READER COMMENTS


The problem with wildlife management in this state is that the governor and legislature are illegally involved in building more houses creating smaller and smaller areas natural domain for the animals, but animals are suvivors learning to live between the houses.

Having lived in my current location for over 40 years I have seen the area add housing.

Havent your heard doublas saying we have a housing shortage and need more housing? do we have crowds of people who are walking the streets looking for a place to live or is douglas and the legislature inviting people in promising monetary support.



The point is that additional housing and commercial area is not within cities and villages but is in the rural areas, all development has been slowly climbing the "Green Mountains". Development where animals have learned to survive but simply cannot be regualated with hunting to the lesser numbers that are necessary because hunting cannot take place between houses on 1 to 10 acre lots.

It is the right of the people to acquire, possess, transfer and enjoy property. Government has no right to control the housing market or the economic means people participate in it. Government has also destroyed the family farm in Vermont forcing farmers to make money by selling farms to developmers. This fuels the governor and legislatures housing movement.

The impact to small ordhards is horrific, all plants must be protected with wire fence to save from destruction and lower yields. Maybe I should use a cannot

Neighbors find flower beds destroyed.

The government must stop pushing growth in Vermont.

All property is the jurisdiction of the people through their constitutional rights. The legislature in session as the general assembly of the state of Vermont must obey the Constitution and regulate all hunting and fishing as they are required to do and get out of development of the housing market of the green mountains.

The legislature and governor are and have been destroying this state.
-- Posted by Bill Brueckner on Sun, Jul 5, 2009, 6:22 am EST

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