mike rossi

That wasn't the right video, this other video describes a roller that flattens vegetation, usually planted cover crop mixtures, but it should also work with the vegetation in a natural fallow field. This is no-till planting, and without use of herbicides in the "termination" process. Since it works for heavy mats of cover-crop mixtures or tall rye, ect... it should also work in a dense natural fallow field, Sorry for the mix up, here is the correct video: http://youtu.be/PW4mwVJPS9A The first video I posted is still relevant to your question - it describes how planting in that thatch will actually improve the growth / yield and has other benefits to the soil, etc... So, don't be afraid to plant into this layer, your food plot will grow better, the possible exception being if you plant a small-seeded plant because it might not be able to come up through the thatch. I believe the first video pre-dates the second and it is before the roller was invented, The farmers in the first video used a variety of improvised rollers, but in conjunction with herbicide. The roller makes the use of herbicide unnecessary to "terminate" the cover crop. Herbicide costs money and is bad for the environment. If you must use a small seed planting, burning the thatch will also return nutrients to the soil and regenerate native plants, but I suspect the laws in NY make that impossible or very difficult. If you are going to till the field, do not do so until the fall and hold off planting until the spring. This will allow the tilled-in plant material to decompose. Although decomposed plants do indeed add nutrients to the soil, when decomposition occurs under the soil and at the same time your plants are growing, it robs nitrogen from the soil. Since you indicate you have 5 inches of thatch, which is pretty hard to believe, before fall tillage you should probably mow/hay or graze the field once or twice. Don't take my word for this, I may be wrong, talk to the Natural Resource Conservation Service in your area, they provide technical information about farming to the public for free, they have an office in every county. I would be interested in hearing what they tell you!

Do some research on "No-till" farming. Here is an article we just published, it is not 100% relevant to what you are doing, but it is a starting point to understand no till methods. http://nydovehunting.weebly.com/future-land-use-changes-will-increase-dove-populations.html Actually, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXCLVCJWTU

I just signed the petition: "VETO S-065889-A and A-08790-A" Will you join me in supporting this issue? http://www.thepetitionsite.com/832/485/616/veto-s-065889-a-and-a-08790-a/

Actually, I am being too gentle with someone picking a fight.. I get it, but you are wrong, the economy and conservation funding does not revolve around the whitetail... If you even read the DEC draft mute swan management plan, you would be aware of the negative economic impacts of mute swans.. Here are some reports, there are many more, including work done by the DEC, citing the negative ECONOMIC IMPACT of mute swans: http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatres/fishwild/pdf/muteswan.pdf https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12145_59132_59333-263394--,00.html http://longpointwaterfowl.org/research/staff/past-staff-research/mute-swans/ http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/waterfowl/mute-swan/management-plan/virginia-mute-swan-management-plan.pdf

There is a complex layering of science, policy, and public opinion surrounding the issue. I disagree with you though. Mute swans impact everything from the smallest fish to very economically important migratory game birds and shellfish. They also add to the water pollution problem. The ecological services wetlands provide, like carbon sequestration, groundwater recharging, etc... alone are worth billions of dollars. Then add the value of the wildlife to the land. Who do you mean by "they"?

You know all you need to do is call (518) 474-8390 then press 3 and tell the person who answers you are against S-06589A and you want the governor to VETO it. They will ask for your zip code and that is it, two seconds... Sometimes they cant find the bill by its number, if that happens just say it is the mute swan bill... Lets not let them get away with this without a least hearing from a few hundred of us!

The Senate was even worse, I don't see a single vote for the DEC.... Am I mistaken? There are about 65 senate seats, but some are vacant, this record accounts for 61 senators, I think that is all there is? VOTE: FLOOR VOTE: - Jun 18, 2014 Ayes (59): Addabbo, Avella, Ball, Bonacic, Boyle, Breslin, Carlucci, DeFrancisco, Diaz, Dilan, Farley, Felder, Flanagan, Gallivan, Gianaris, Gipson, Griffo, Grisanti, Hannon, Hassell-Thomps, Hoylman, Kennedy, Klein, Krueger, Lanza, Larkin, Latimer, LaValle, Libous, Little, Marcellino, Marchione, Martins, Maziarz, Montgomery, Nozzolio, O'Brien, O'Mara, Parker, Peralta, Perkins, Ranzenhofer, Ritchie, Rivera, Robach, Sampson, Sanders, Savino, Serrano, Seward, Skelos, Smith, Squadron, Stavisky, Stewart-Cousins, Tkaczyk, Valesky, Young, Zeldin Excused (2): Espaillat, Golden

Only 25 assembly members find the DEC more credible than anti hunters.. 104 other assembly members do not trust the DEC... Here is How the Assembly voted on its mute swan bill: A08790 Votes: BILL:A08790ADATE:05/29/2014MOTION: YEA/NAY:104/25 Abbate Y Corwin NO Glick Y Lavine Y Nolan Y Rozic Y Titus Y Abinant Y Crespo Y Goldfed Y Lentol Y Oaks NO Russell Y Walter NO Arroyo Y Crouch NO Goodell NO Lifton Y O'Donne Y Ryan Y Weinste Y Aubry Y Curran Y Gottfri Y Lopez Y Ortiz Y Saladin Y Weisenb ER Barclay NO Cusick Y Graf Y Lupardo Y Otis Y Santaba Y Weprin Y Barrett ER Cymbrow Y Gunther Y Lupinac Y Palmesa NO Scarbor Y Wright ER Benedet Y Davila Y Hawley NO Magee Y Palumbo Y Schimel Y Zebrows Y Blanken NO DenDekk Y Heastie Y Magnare Y Paulin Y Schimmi Y Mr Spkr Y Borelli NO Dinowit Y Henness Y Malliot Y Peoples Y Sepulve Y Braunst Y DiPietr NO Hevesi ER Markey Y Perry Y Simanow Y Brennan Y Duprey NO Hikind ER Mayer Y Pichard Y Simotas ER Brindis Y Englebr Y Hooper ER McDonal Y Pretlow Y Skartad Y Bronson Y Fahy Y Jacobs Y McDonou Y Quart Y Skoufis Y Brook-K Y Farrell Y Jaffee Y McKevit Y Ra Y Solages Y Buchwal Y Finch NO Johns Y McLaugh NO Raia Y Stec NO Butler NO Fitzpat Y Katz NO Miller ER Ramos Y Steck Y Cahill Y Friend NO Kavanag Y Millman Y Rivera Y Stirpe NO Camara Y Galef Y Kearns Y Montesa NO Roberts Y Sweeney Y Ceretto Y Gantt Y Kellner AB Morelle Y Robinso ER Tedisco Y Clark Y Garbari Y Kim Y Mosley Y Rodrigu ER Tenney NO Colton Y Giglio NO Kolb NO Moya Y Rosa Y Thiele Y Cook Y Gjonaj Y Lalor NO Nojay NO Rosenth Y Titone Y

I heard the bill(s) were revised quite a bit, so I looked them up. I notice the bill was transferred out of the environmental conservation committee and into the rules committee were it was approved by over 20 assembly members, than back to the environmental conservation committee, with no voting info. Don't ask me - all I got from this so far is 20 Plus names who voted it out of the rules committee. Notice that they are going to require public meetings in EVERY town or area were mute swans are found??????????? Then "priority" will be given to nonlethal management methods - hard to extirpate a species with nonlethal methods, so the entire DEC agenda is perverted as far as I am concerned. I will follow up with the complete voting record of both bills, senate and assembly members who voted for this should be considered hostile to hunting and wildlife science. That is Anti-Hunting AND Anti-DEC.... http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S6589A-2013

Tony Avella's Anti- DEC mute swan bill (S-06589A and A-08790-A) passed both houses today and will be sent to the governor. All we can do is email Governor Andrew Cuomo and request he veto's the mute swan bills because the DEC knows more about managing wildlife than the humane society. This having passed both houses is now in the hands of the senate which can deliver it to the governor any time they feel. The governor would then have 10 days to either sign it into law or veto it. As of just now, the senate still has it. We need to IMMEDIATELY contact the governor and urge him to veto this proposal. This bill was expedited through the legislative process and finalized the very day before they all break for the year. The 17 sponsors in the Assembly and the 5 sponsors in the Senate made sure they completed this political favor for the animal rights organizations that endorse them before breaking until the fall!

You know, I got an email blast from a Pro Hunting organization about a pending lead ammo ban proposal that contradicted itself. The by-line said that this was a slippery slope to ban all hunting... Yet the anti hunting organization slogan they offered as "proof" of the slippery slope said that their goal was (indeed) to end all hunting - by the democratic process and the ballot box.... Well guess what... That has nothing to do with a slippery slope. The non hunting public in a democratic process using the ballot box and/or any other public say-so will not side with the hunting community on this issue. The HSUS is indeed out to ban all hunting, very true, but not by using lead ammo to create a slippery slope. They are using the ballot box. If we stop using lead ammo we actually take one more tool away from the antis. We also stop wasting our time on this loser argument. For hunting to survive it must have broad-based public support and the public at large will never, ever, support lead ammunition... The antis by opposing lead ammo, gain public support and credibility. Meanwhile hunters, by denying the impacts of lead ammo, lose public support and credibility. Wake up people....

Verminator1 Here are a few links about the relationships between rodent poison and mange; and another about the general association about a lowered immune system from lead exposure which can conceivably increase mange infection; and an article which is a good overview of lead toxicity. As usual this is just a few published reports, there are more out there. http://www.scribd.com/doc/218901718/Rodenticide-Infographic http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2193/2005-615/abstract http://www.urbancarnivores.com/notoedric-mange-a-disease-of/ http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2060369-overview#aw2aab6b3 http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/documents/86JCF.PLPWW02.pdf

Look it up it out there. Not in field and stream or the right wing news, but its out there...

How many deer outside of archery are shot every year? That translates into that many gut piles. When a sample of gut piles were tested, every gut pile had lead fragments .A variety of wildlife eat ALL of those gut piles. Wildlife - live, dead, and sick animals have been tested and found with varying amounts of lead in their blood and/or tissues. Lead poisoning or "plumbism'' kills directly, indirectly, or impairs reproduction. Did you watch the videos I posted? Another thing, trappers sometimes catch fox and other predators with mange in NY. Half of those animals would have fought off the condition and had normal pelts if they have not accumulated rat poison or lead in their tissues and blood.

You read about it or watch it on videos, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo3wo7NfGAfn-Pi-8yN1WihQnzXcCmQ-4

Is that fast enough for all of you, and to boot they made sure they finalized it on the last day before they go on vacation until the fall.... Animal Rights extremists right here in NY, complain to a politician and a DEC proposal is blocked. The politicians ran it through for them in about 8 weeks... The animal rights people did NOT have Audubon and those groups with them on this issue either. Audubon and other conservation groups were on the DEC's side and supported the plan. Animal rights did this all by themselves... Whether you hate Governor Cuomo or not, contact his office ASAP and tell him you prefer the DEC makes the decisions regarding ecology and request he does not to sign this bill! The assembly has the bill, they can send it to the governor at any time. Even when they are not in session. Once the governor has the bill, he has 10 days to either sign of veto it. Do not wait, contact Cuomo right away. Tell the governor to VETO this bill!

So it sounds like if Governor Cuomo signs this bill, it will become law, here is the tracking: http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S06589&term=&Summary=Y&Actions=Y

The following response was received today: Just wanted to update you on S.6589A. This bill passed in the Senate yesterday, and has been delivered back to the Assembly. I was pleased to have voted for its passage in the Senate. Sen. Kathy Marchione NYS Senate 43rd District

Regarding Post 49 and New Jersey in general: elsewhere the efforts of Ken Ganson, Jerry Natale, and perhaps others, who wrote resolutions to establish dove hunting in 2006 have been brought up. We remind them and NJ hunters that in 2006 the mourning dove was a "protected bird". The ball game is different now because as of January 2012 the mourning dove has been reclassified as a game species in Jersey. This change removes a major road block along the path to a dove hunting season and that path is now much more easy to travel, We have suggested to Natale that he uses face book to organize interested hunters and then direct an electronic petition to the NY DEP and the Fish and Wildlife Council now that the dove is a game species in Jersey. The issue of litigation (a court injunction to block a hunting season) is not something foreign to the NJ DEP or any other wildlife agency these days. To bring a law suit there must be what is known as a "cause of action." A law suit cannot simply be brought out of thin air. Perhaps if someone could provide us with the argument against the Jersey Bear season we can try to predict how they might approach an injunction against dove hunting. If you expect us ( or me) to look up every single thing, outside our own state no less, become a one species state and hunt only one game, one season, because that is were it is going. A lot of the actions to block dove hunting widely talked about were not even law suits and they cannot be used in every state. For example, in 2006 in Michigan, a referendum vote killed the two year old dove season. Not every state has this referendum system. As early as the 1970's in Ohio the Commissioner of the Game Department there set a dove hunting season, but he did not have the authority to do so, it was the legislature which did. An animal lover got an attorney who uncovered that and the court repealed the season, however Ohio since then has established a dove hunting season. The heads of NJ DEP and NY DEC are well aware they cant set hunting seasons, lol... To make a long story short, although anti hunting organizations, especially the HSUS, will dig deep for any legal maneuver they can construe; every action does not work across every state.

In Post 44 and elsewhere we urged New Jersey hunters to write letters in support of PRN-2011-011 and stated although we are unsure of it's status the expiration date is looming (July 2014). We also indicated due to the short notice we have not had time to do any fact checking. Glad we used that disclaimer, because it was not necessary to write in... We heard back from NJ DEP today. Good news, the mourning dove became a game species in Jersey in January of 2012. However, there is not a hunting season for them in Jersey. Not yet anyway.... At some point it will indeed be important to write letters, better yet someone living in NJ should get a petition going directed at the DEP and the Fish and Game Council. Here is the correspondence received today: I was informed by the Endangered and Nongame Species Program Chief Jenkins that mourning dove is no longer classified as a non-game species (effective January 2012 per PRN-2011-011; DEP Docket Number 15-10-12). Mourning dove is listed as a game species with a closed season in New Jersey’s Game Code (N.J.A.C. 7:25-13) and the pertinent language is: 7:25-5.13 Migratory birds (m) Seasons and bag limits are as follows: 1. Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura), sandhill crane (Grus canadensis), and king rail (Rallus elegans) are protected. There is a closed season for mourning dove, sandhill crane and king rail. 2. The duration of the season and bag limits for hunting clapper rail (Rallus longirotstris), Virginia rail (Rallus limicola), sora rail (Porzana carolina), common gallinule or moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and woodcock (Scolopax minor) are as prescribed by the Code of Federal Regulations by the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the current hunting season. American and fish crows are also listed as game species in the NJ Game Code with the pertinent language as follows: 7:25-5.15 Crow (Corvus spp.) (a) Duration for the season for hunting the crow shall be Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from the second Monday in August through the third Saturday in March or as otherwise prescribed by the Code of Federal Regulations by the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the current hunting season inclusive, except closed during the six-day firearm deer season, as specified in N.J.A.C. 7:25-7.27(a). There is no daily bag limit. There is no season limit. © The hours for hunting crows shall be sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset, except on opening day of pheasant season, as specified in N.J.A.C. 7:25-5.2(d), when the hours are 8:00 A.M. to 1/2 hour after sunset. (d) Hunting methods shall be in accordance with Federal regulations as adopted by the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The regulatory process for amending the NJ Game Code entails consideration and discussion by Council members based on information provided by NJDFW biologists, publication of proposed amendments in the NJ Registrar, an open public meeting and a 60-day comment period. For your information, the 11-member Fish and Game Council is regional represented (north, central, south) by 6 sportsmen representatives (selected by NJSFSC) and 3 agricultural representatives as well as 1 public member-at-large and the chair of the Endangered and Nongame Species Advisory Council.

The peak of fawn births is around that time so that would be my guess. A little earlier , maybe, but last year, I doubt it - still has some fur and the rodents usually consume the bones. I am sure your next question or assertion is that or if a coyote did it. Maybe, but who really cares?

I previously posted the initial solicitation, here is a second message below from RM. Anyone send anything yet, I made some suggestions, will post below when I get some time... Thanks to all who have posted comments on www.improvingthenationalsurvey.com. Your input is invaluable and will be part of the process of redesigning the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. For the rest of you, there’s still time! Come give us your thoughts and your reactions to the many comments we’ve received, including: “As the hunting public's interests change, sampling should change along with it so that we are not left with numerous five-year periods of *sample size too small....If you know that you are having sampling issues given your funding, your first step should have been to solicit extra funding from that state to increase your sampling efforts to generate meaningful statistics.” “As with any ongoing project such as the National Survey, I think it would be to useful revisit the original purpose(s) of the survey, and determine whether these have changed. Has the survey morphed beyond its original intent?” “There is a real need to unite the hook and bullet crowd and the ‘non-consumptive’ folks. I would love for this report to begin tracking overlap in those activities: how many birdwatchers hunt? Fish?” “If further cuts are needed, we suggest reducing the wildlife viewing section as this community is not paying for the Survey. We need to keep those who pay for the survey top-of-mind.” If you like the Survey the way it is, come to www.improvingthenationalsurvey.com and tell us what shouldn’t be changed. If you’ve had any problems with the Survey, come to www.improvingthenationalsurvey.com and be part of the solution. It only takes a few minutes, and it makes a big difference. Thanks for contributing to this important effort. Sarah Butzen Responsive Management 130 Franklin St., Harrisonburg, VA 22801 540-432-1888 [email protected] http://www.responsivemanagement.com

Here is some info that will give you insight about the abundance of mourning doves in New York. NY is surrounded by mourning dove hunting occurring in Southern Ontario; Ohio; Pennsylvania; and Rhode Island. There are plenty of you tube videos of mourning dove hunting in Ohio if you look. I will post harvest data from Rhode Island and Ohio in the future. 1)The 2012-2013 HIP info for Pennsylvania: 18,000 hunters bagged 203,200 mourning doves. 2) An older Cornell University report indicates there are 10 Million mourning doves in NY except in the Adirondacks and Catskills. Western NY and Long Island often have "large flocks". See Page 2 of this: http://www2.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/info/pubs/Wildlife/NYwildlife/mourning%20dove.pdf 3) I don't have the numbers yet, but this video shows dove hunting in southern Ontario. This providence opened its first mourning dove season in recent history last fall. Some of the birds are rock doves ('pigeons), but most are mourning doves. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo3wo7NfGAflmr7nQIwZQINJ9We36MLFr

You are describing what sounds like a felony known as "terroristic threats". Since the police wont do anything, get a private lawyer. In addition to being a serious crime, there also is a "cause of action" for a civil law suit. I caution this might be illegal but what I personally would do is record any future calls and post them on you tube along with the callers personal info.... That's what I would do, not what I am telling you to do, lol...

However, that is changing recently, and I am not sure if it is worse that the breed is shunned or that it is embraced by non-hunters. If you are not on face book, get on it and follow the numerous Chesapeake Bay Retriever groups, including the rescues. They are dominated by women and non hunters, even anti hunters. More and more people are being attracted to the breed for a pet. These CBR fanciers are as devoted to the breed as any of the other pet wackos. Oh how cute , oh that dog is cold or hot, oh he is dirty, bla, bla bla... Its actually quite sickening... However, it shows people are beginning to see the breed differently - breed popularity often ruins breeds so I am reserved about this though. The CBR is the state dog of Maryland and it has been popular there for many years with pet owners, but this new phenomena is nationwide. I would suggest you get your girlfriend to look at these groups on face book and maybe talk with them some if she can stand them, lol.... But its probably best if you just get two dogs, just get opposite genders... Good pets are not, some chessies will get as big as 130 or 140 pounds. All dogs, but this breed in particular, require a strong pack leader. No slack for humane - whacko training fantasies , the fantasies that create dangerous and/or obnoxious dogs and thereby unwanted pets. Not saying abuse any dog, but you need the Cesar Milan mentality with chessies from the very start....