Step Up And Be Heard… Public Hearings ON Wildlife Take Place This Month
January 6, 2009
In North Carolina changes to hunting, trapping and fishing laws are often floated at public hearings across the state to get the public’s input on them. The comments are taken into consideration by the Commissioners when they sit down to make the changes in the spring. There are a number of proposals up for consideration that could really alter the way we hunt; legalizing crossbows during archery season (currently only handicap individuals with a permit can use them), switching most of the state to be under a uniform deer season like the eastern part of the state is currently under (that would add an additional 4 weeks or so to firearm season), eliminate the winter turkey season, open the spring turkey season up a week earlier ( this proposal has been floated time and time again despite the over whelming opposition. Commissioner Windham seems to be the driving force behind this effort even when the biological staff have constantly stated that the season already opens to early.) and of course the issue of Sunday Hunting as proposed to allow archery only on Sundays ( North Carolina is one of a handful of states that does not allow hunting on Sunday, the current law prohibits the use of a firearm for hunting on Sunday and would require legislative action to change the law. That leaves non firearm methods of hunting on Sunday as legal if the NCWRC passes rules to open Sunday’s up.). There are a number of other proposals you can see this years proposals as well as the hearing schedules here at NCWRC you can also submit online comments if you can’t make the hearings.
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