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Mike -

 

I'm just speculating but it seems financial pressures on DEC could threaten the raising and release of game farm pheasants. It is expensive and strictly "put and take".

 

Doves on the other hand are plentiful and self sustaining. In other words, doves may fill a need for a replacement game bird considering the loss of wild pheasants. It is possible this argument may actually appeal to some non-hunters who object to the "put and take" approach but don't object to hunting.

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You mean the one in September?

 

Yes. We would have to start talking to the stores or corporate offices to get the ok. We would also need to locate as many NHFD events as we can, and make whatever arrangements are necessary. It would be great if we could get many people at these events throughout the entire state. And, if we still don't get enough signatures, we can do it the following year, and then the following, as long as it takes...

Mike -

 

I'm just speculating but it seems financial pressures on DEC could threaten the raising and release of game farm pheasants. It is expensive and strictly "put and take".

 

Doves on the other hand are plentiful and self sustaining. In other words, doves may fill a need for a replacement game bird considering the loss of wild pheasants. It is possible this argument may actually appeal to some non-hunters who object to the "put and take" approach but don't object to hunting.

 

I see you indeed signed the petition, and I thank you, but you are introducing a Red Herring into this post. Given the importance and difficulty of engaging hunters in signing the petition and getting this NHFD project organized, I am going to refer you to our website which has figures on the costs of the pheasant program which disprove arguments against it. The article also explains how the pheasant program adds to conservation funding and general economic activity, not the vice verse.

 

We also describe on our website how hunters in the state of NJ were tricked into giving up their bobwhite (quail) season for the promise of a dove season, which never happened. Now, it would be even more difficult to reinstate their quail season then a dove season, given the conservation status of both birds.

 

Every once in a while somebody suggests that NY should close its rail hunting season in a "trade" for a dove season. I don't think it is necessary to get into detail about everything that is wrong with such an idea. I will say, however, rails and quails and pheasants are none of the reasons we don't hunt doves in NY... Hopefully by now, instead of fishing for Red Herring,  most people are starting to understand the real reason and will begin to focus on contacting state lawmakers and helping us organize other hunters.

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The power of Facebook is being unleashed, lol.

 

It is being shared alot on FB. I belong to a group of people who run sporting pages and asked them to share my page's post linking to the petition. It should result in a good amount of exposure. Some of the pages that are sharing have 50k followers.

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The power of Facebook is being unleashed, lol.

 

It is being shared alot on FB. I belong to a group of people who run sporting pages and asked them to share my page's post linking to the petition. It should result in a good amount of exposure. Some of the pages that are sharing have 50k followers.

 

There are two other tools on face book we describe in our article " Network Strategies". Briefly, those are the "Call To Action" and the "Create an Event".

 

These are effective because you can directly invite people in your face book contacts. It is a little confusing when we use the "Event" function for petitions, because that is not an actual event, but most people figure it out. We are going to post these over the weekend, and I believe personal pages can also create events and possibly call to actions. Some people just don't read their feed or pay more attention when they are contacted directly. Your feed only goes out to 7% of your subscribers anyway, not everyone. So if you have 1,000 followers, your posts only reach 70 people... If you pay face book, which we did, your posts would reach about 50% of your subscribers, so on a 1,000 you reach 500. The events/call to action although time consuming, allows you to reach everyone. 

 

We are also creating hard copy petition forms and other material such as business cards and information brochures that can be printed right off of our website. To return the completed petition forms we ask you to contact us through our website and tell you were to send them. When the link for print out material is up, we will announce it. 

 

Another thing: There are a lot of doves around right now. Very shortly, they will be nesting and much less visible. Now is a good time to getting others to notice how many doves are around the state. We started a migration map, similar to the waterfowl migration map of DU and the woodcock migration map of the RGS; but the project was more time consuming then we thought, so we put that off for later. Never the less, make notes, even shoot film and video for the naysayers... 

 

The main project we are working on right now is our "National Hunting and Fishing Day Strategy". We will do our best for this upcoming September, but we don't expect this to be optimal the first year or so. We need a lot of cooperation with this effort as well, because it requires people to be physically present state-wide. There are only so much expense we can eat as well. However, 90% of what can be done with money can be done with work, never the less, we cannot do all the work either.

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Use this link to download and print out the mourning dove hunting petition form.

 

Take this petition form to meetings, club houses, camps, stores, bait shops, National Hunting and Fishing Day, hunting expos, guns shows, etc. so that people who have limited access to the internet are able to sign... 

 

You can also print out business cards, flyers, etc...

 

http://nydovehunting.weebly.com/printouts.html

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