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The Details On The Changes

Mar 11, 2008 @ 10:44 pm by Moose

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has released the details of the changes to the regulations for next year. There was 90 some odd proposed changes and almost all of them passed.

Wildlife Commissioners disapproved three proposed hunting regulations: 1) moving Cleveland and Rutherford counties into the Northwestern deer season; 2) allowing falconry on Sundays and; 3) reducing the buck bag limit in the Eastern Deer Season from four to two.

In addition to these 3 items the proposal to extend the squirrel season to the end of February was not considered because of a “technical issue”.

Fishing and trapping proposals for the most part went through with little change with the following exceptions.

Public input led to the modification of some proposed rules, such as a reduction in the number of jug hooks from 100 to 70 per boat and a consolidation of trapping seasons from one statewide season to two regional seasons.

The failure of the two buck limit would easier to except if the majority of sportsmen opposed it but such is not the case. On one hand it is difficult to accept the fact that a small minority of organized hunters can overcome the majority but then again maybe we should be encouraged that there is hope for our sport as a whole if we can get organized.