--Chad Love

In an age of reduced funding sources, declining hunter participation, and increases in the average age of hunters, can cash-strapped state wildlife agencies afford to continue offering exemptions to hunting and fishing licenses? That's the issue facing Kansas as its wildlife department prepares to ask the state legislature to eliminate the state's senior citizen exemption for hunting and fishing licenses.

From this story in the Wichita Eagle:
Kansas senior citizens could be required to buy hunting and fishing licenses after this year. For decades, residents 65 and over have been exempt from the annual permits that currently sell for about $18 each. Chris Tymeson of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission said Thursday that the agency will ask the Legislature to remove the exemption.

--Chad Love

--Chad Love

In this age of near-universal zero tolerance weapons policies on school campuses, students who accidentally bring guns or bows to school during hunting season often find themselves in big trouble, no matter how innocent their mistake.

Charges, suspension, expulsion--there are any number of cases in recent years where students didn’t just have the book thrown at them, they got crushed by it. Which makes it somewhat refreshing to see this understated, non-hyperventilating response to what clearly was an accident...

From this story in the Marietta (OH) Times:

Washington State Community College officials are reminding students of the rules against having weapons on campus after a rifle and a crossbow were found this week in students' vehicles. One weapon was discovered Monday and another Tuesday, both in vehicles in the upper student parking lot, college spokeswoman Joy Frank-Collins said. There was no safety concern, she said, calling the incidents issues of "bad timing and poor judgment." "It's hunting season. It's our understanding that was why they had those implements in their vehicles," she said.