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February 14, 2012
Tennessee's Hunting and Fishing Regulatory Body May Vanish
--Chad Love
The commission that sets Tennessee's hunting and fishing seasons and regulations is in the middle of a political battle, and will cease to exist later this year if a solution isn't reached, according to this article on the Tennessean.com
In the most egregiously misguided effort in the recent history of state politics, a couple of House legislators are attempting to literally destroy our priceless wildlife resources for political and commercial gain. In 2011, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s (TWRA) Commission was up for standard reauthorization, but House Government Operations Chairman Jim Cobb refused to hear the bill in his committee. As it stands, the commission will cease to exist on June 30. Without the commission, no fishing, hunting or trapping seasons can be set; no budget can be approved; no licenses or permits can be issued.
"...Chairman Cobb is not the only one focused on dismantling 60 years of progress in professional wildlife management: Rep. Frank Niceley has already introduced at least 12 bills that directly affect the TWRA, and are exceptionally bad for our fish and wildlife resources. The most dangerous one jeopardizes a culturally and economically important native species. Last year, Niceley’s attempt to allow private game preserves to buy, sell and kill white-tailed deer inside of pens was withdrawn for lack of votes. But he’s back with a new version, HB 3164, which eliminates TWRA’s authority to control the farming of exotic and native wildlife, including catching wild deer and putting them in these pens. His bill bypasses House conservation committees and fast-tracks straight to Agriculture — the one he chairs.
Thoughts? Can any Tennessee hunters and anglers give us some insight to this? Are there similar political battles happening in other states?
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Comments (12)
This is sad, and i hope to god who ever voted him into office makes sure not to repeat their mistake.
They could potentially make one of the worst decisions in wildlife management in order to provide "canned" hunts?!
There's no way this has any legs, unless there's more to the story. One, selfish, legislator can't possible do damage on this level, can he...?!
Silly me, here I was thinking that politicians were elected to work for the public good!
In all seriousness, though, this is what we get when the public is too apathetic to elect politicians who actually will serve the public interest. It's a popularity contest, at best, and at worst people just go in the voting booth and vote either all "D" or all "R" without having any idea what they're getting.
Yes, one selfish, misguided legislator can do this kind of damage. This is why it is important for people to vote when they have the opportunity! Even more importantly, those people voting need to be informed about the issues at hand and where candidates stand on them. If the person being considered is an incumbent, look at their record and see what they've been doing. These guys need to be stonewalled until their next election, and then fired.
Tennessee! I can't vote for you. Get to your phones, and then get to your polls!
In case anybody's wondering, the legislators involved in this are GOP
Sounds to me like someone's legislating and influencing others for personal gain. Public servants with private causes need to be one-term publicly elected officials. Get out the vote Tennessee!
We are experiencing similar, albeit lesser concerns here in Missouri, where some in our legislature are attempting to double the number of commissioners on our conservation commission. The opposition says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But from what I've heard, the Missouri Farm Bureau is pushing it pretty hard because they're still sore over the re-introduction of elk against their protests. They're trying to sell it as a way to add more regionalized representation on the commission, but the "it's not broken" crowd fears that doing so will politicize resource management to a degree we've never seen and take us in a bad direction.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Stop White-tailed Deer Farming from Destroying Tennessee’s Priceless Wild Deer Herd oppose HB3164
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/02/stop-white-tailed-deer-farming-from.html
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
White House budget proposes cuts to ag programs including TSE PRION disease aka mad cow type disease
transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/02/white-house-budget-proposes-cuts-to-ag.html
tss
This is EXACTLY why politicians need to keep their noses out of wildlife management!
I'm emailing this post to my friends in Nashville and Memphis. Hopefully, the TN hunting/fishing community will wake up and fight this.
I live in Tennessee, this is my first time hearing about this and I'll be honest this could get bad.
This is awful. Hopefully people wise up real fast and stop this before it gets worse. Oh and Stick500, just thought you should know, the GOP isn't all bad. There's quite a few democrats that threaten our way of life and 2nd amendment rights too. It's the person, not their affiliation that makes them bad.
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This is sad, and i hope to god who ever voted him into office makes sure not to repeat their mistake.
Silly me, here I was thinking that politicians were elected to work for the public good!
In all seriousness, though, this is what we get when the public is too apathetic to elect politicians who actually will serve the public interest. It's a popularity contest, at best, and at worst people just go in the voting booth and vote either all "D" or all "R" without having any idea what they're getting.
Yes, one selfish, misguided legislator can do this kind of damage. This is why it is important for people to vote when they have the opportunity! Even more importantly, those people voting need to be informed about the issues at hand and where candidates stand on them. If the person being considered is an incumbent, look at their record and see what they've been doing. These guys need to be stonewalled until their next election, and then fired.
Tennessee! I can't vote for you. Get to your phones, and then get to your polls!
In case anybody's wondering, the legislators involved in this are GOP
They could potentially make one of the worst decisions in wildlife management in order to provide "canned" hunts?!
There's no way this has any legs, unless there's more to the story. One, selfish, legislator can't possible do damage on this level, can he...?!
Sounds to me like someone's legislating and influencing others for personal gain. Public servants with private causes need to be one-term publicly elected officials. Get out the vote Tennessee!
We are experiencing similar, albeit lesser concerns here in Missouri, where some in our legislature are attempting to double the number of commissioners on our conservation commission. The opposition says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But from what I've heard, the Missouri Farm Bureau is pushing it pretty hard because they're still sore over the re-introduction of elk against their protests. They're trying to sell it as a way to add more regionalized representation on the commission, but the "it's not broken" crowd fears that doing so will politicize resource management to a degree we've never seen and take us in a bad direction.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Stop White-tailed Deer Farming from Destroying Tennessee’s Priceless Wild Deer Herd oppose HB3164
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/02/stop-white-tailed-deer-farming-from.html
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
White House budget proposes cuts to ag programs including TSE PRION disease aka mad cow type disease
transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/02/white-house-budget-proposes-cuts-to-ag.html
tss
This is EXACTLY why politicians need to keep their noses out of wildlife management!
I'm emailing this post to my friends in Nashville and Memphis. Hopefully, the TN hunting/fishing community will wake up and fight this.
I live in Tennessee, this is my first time hearing about this and I'll be honest this could get bad.
This is awful. Hopefully people wise up real fast and stop this before it gets worse. Oh and Stick500, just thought you should know, the GOP isn't all bad. There's quite a few democrats that threaten our way of life and 2nd amendment rights too. It's the person, not their affiliation that makes them bad.
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