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This is the author: Peter Bauer Peter Bauer is the Executive Director of Protect the Adirondacks.He has been working in various capacities on Adirondack Park environmental issues since the mid-1980s, including stints as the Executive Director of the Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks and FUND for Lake George as well as on the staff of the Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century. He also worked at Adirondack Life Magazine. He served as Chair of the Town of Lake George Zoning Board of Appeals and has served on numerous advisory boards for management of the Adirondack Park and Forest Preserve. Peter lives in Blue Mountain Lake with his wife and two children, enjoys a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities throughout the Adirondacks, and is a member of the Blue Mountain Lake volunteer fire department.Follow Protect the Adirondacks on Facebook and Twitter. This is the publisher of the article: THE ADIRONDACK ALMANACK The Adirondack Almanack is a public forum dedicated to promoting and discussing current events, history, arts, nature and outdoor recreation and other topics of interest to the Adirondacks and its communities We publish commentary and opinion pieces from voluntary contributors, as well as news updates and event notices from area organizations. Contributors include veteran local writers, historians, naturalists, and outdoor enthusiasts from around the Adirondack region. The information, views and opinions expressed by these various authors are not necessarily those of the Adirondack Almanack or its publisher, the Adirondack Explorer. You can find this info at the bottom of the article when you click on the attached link in the first post and open it. You can bet your last dollar these folks lobby DEC for changes when they want them. I suspect DEC has been trying to avoid admitting wolves are in NY so they would not have to deal with the demands they know will come from wolf advocates.

It's not just one wolf. Many are being reported, but only one has been killed, so far. NY is being pressured big time because the wolf is federally protected. It's not hyperbole, it is happening. NY may decide not to change anything, but considering all that NY has done in the past, it's a pretty good bet it will look to change the coyote hunting laws. I remember when people didn't think coyote hunting contests would be messed with too. Hunters need to get in front of this thing if they want to keep coyote laws they way they are.

Mike Snapp and his bow buck taken in Florida as a youngster. Proud traditional bowhunter circa 1967.

Also, banning things creates a huge, profitable and violent "black market". Prohibition and the drug war served to prove that. Firearm bans do the same thing. If the anti-gun folks think gun violence is bad now, wait until the government implements it's "solution".

1967

More than 1.5 million times a year (verified previously by the CDC and more recently in a study by Georgetown University) law-abiding citizens use firearms to defend themselves and others against criminal acts. Democrats are doing all they can to put a stop to all of that. They are after "assault weapons" now, but will move on to handguns again if they ever succeed in getting all the AR's from responsible gun owners. Some of us remember when they were dead set on banning all handguns. Don't think they've decided handguns are OK now.

1963

From the article: Some of the coyote management reforms that are needed to protect wolves include: The coyote hunting season should be reformed. Currently, it’s a 6-month season with 24 hour a day hunting, with no daily or seasonal bag limits. Hunters can kill as many coyotes as they please. As part of the coyote season reform, all wild canids taken in the state should be checked and tagged. Wild canids that are taken that have a weight greater than 50 pounds or that meet additional criteria established by the Department should be subjected to a DNA analysis. Tests that show a large canid is a wolf should be investigated to see if other wolves remain in the area where the animal was killed. Coyote hunting should be for a season of no longer than ninety days, and the hunting of coyotes by night should be prohibited. The Department should establish bag limits for coyotes and shall establish size limitations for the taking of coyotes. DEC should modify its hunting and trapping training curriculum to include educational information concerning the presence of wolves in the state, the legal protections for wolves, the checking and tagging requirements for wild canids, and how to distinguish a wolf from a coyote when a hunter or trapper is in the field. DEC needs to solicit information from the public about wolf sightings in New York State and investigate reported wolf sightings. The next wolf that wanders into New York should be protected, not allowed to be accidentally killed. NYSDEC Now Admits Cooperstown Wolf Was A Wild Wolf - - The Adirondack Almanack It isn't mentioned here, but you can bet the DEC will look to prosecute anyone who kills a wolf they thought was a coyote. I heard they are charging the man in Cooperstown with an illegal wolf kill.

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Your last sentence is answered by your first paragraph. This is real Soviet style government oppression.

Unattended firearms will be required to be stored in a safe, or have a trigger lock attached, even when in an unattended vehicle.

Colorado 1971

We shall have no real hope to survive the enemies arranged against us, until we hang the traitors lurking among us!