You’re right - that is what I am referring to. There is no continuous season. In fact, depending upon the county hunting is prohibited for certain days or weeks within a season.
Like I wrote before this Bill comes up every year and is tabled every year. It’s a big yawner.
But it is simply not true that lifting a ban poses a threat to public safety, that seasons run for months on end, or that lifting the ban is going to result in a free for all.
All lifting a ban does is allow the game department to pursue additional regulation of hunting on a given day. It does not mandate anything, nor does lifting a ban automatically permit hunting on public land.
The dept must still go through the regulatory process to ensure that any hunting does not conflict with other uses of public land and that the public is given every opportunity to comment on any proposed regulation (though I notice that few Virginians do, nor do they show up at meetings).
Most importantly, if a private landowner wished to hunt on his own land, he would finally be permitted to do so.
Meh - it never passes, so I don’t even know why riverpop bothered to post it - especially in a hunting forum. Seems odd.
This session, there are numerous Bills affecting farm operations, animal ownership, open space/land use, soil and water conservation - all of which impact horse owners much more than this Bill could.
