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Our petition is doing well, including down state, but that is where the antis know they get the most bang for their buck , so we too want to amp it up here, see article and share it! http://nydovehunting.weebly.com/do-you-live-here.html

Synopsis of The Annual “Joint Budget Hearing – Environmental Conservation.” Every year, state agencies such as the DEC have a hearing regarding how much money they need for the upcoming year’s operations. The DEC, is actually the Environmental Conservation Department, hence Joint Budget Hearing – Environmental Conservation. Other state agencies also have their own Joint Budget Hearings, but Environmental Conservation indicates the DEC. This year the DEC’s hearing is Thursday, January 28, 2016, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. The location is: Hearing Room B, 2nd Floor, at the state house in Albany of course. The hearing will also stream live as a video and also be available as an archived video at least for some time. The word “Joint” refers to the presence of both the state senate and state assembly. However, it is not the entire senate and assembly; it is the Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, or at least their chairs, who at this time are Senator John DeFrancisco and Assemblyman Herman Farrell. The Senate and Assembly Environmental Conservation Committees do not necessarily participate in this hearing, as this is a matter of funding. Besides the DEC testifying on its own behalf, the public can also make suggestions about funding the DEC. Perhaps a dozen persons who represent a variety of diverse organizations will testify. In 2015, even Susan McDonough, a former state trooper (16 year veteran), who now is the NYS Humane Association Chair of the Committee on Animal Cruelty issues had testified. Although the record of McDonough’s testimony addresses the Agriculture Markets Department, an agency that might have been relevant to her testimony, apparently McDonough got lost and ended up in the Environmental Conservation Hearing were she asked for tens of thousands of dollars to be used to train police officers and dog control officers about animal cruelty. McDonough asserted that animal cruelty is a “bridge crime” and testified that serial killers often have a history of animal cruelty and indicated Jeffrey Dalmer and the Boston Strangler are examples of this. If YOU want to testify here is how you go about it. You call Jessica Jeune (518-455-3573) at least two days before the hearing. The DEC is scheduled on Thursday, January 28, 2016. Therefore you must call Jeune no later than Tuesday, January 26. Your testimony must be limited to ten minutes and you must bring 50 copies of your testimony with you.

So, just how many mourning doves does one see per hour sitting in blinds across NY state in December 2015? Here is a partial report on this years Christmas Bird Count for mourning doves, done just this past week or so.... Note Location and in BOLD first number is doves seen, second number is hours in the blind. As I already said, December is not prime time to see mourning doves in NY because of migration and mortality, thus numbers of resident and stop over doves in the fall are much greater. December 2015 Christmas Bird Count Mourning Dove – NY Mourning Dove NYUD Ulster-Dutchess 42.0280 -73.9537 486 4.2445 NYOD Oneida 43.0957 -75.6522 398 8.2062 NYCT Catskill-Coxsackie 42.2871 -73.8823 364 3.6129 NYSI Staten Island 40.5833 -74.1500 344 3.7189 NYML Mohonk Lake-Ashokan Reservoir 41.8516 -74.1292 332 3.6889 NYCH Conesus-Hemlock-Honeoye Lakes 42.7776 -77.6161 302 3.0200 NYOO Oak Orchard Swamp 43.1517 -78.3904 272 2.9405 NYNN L.I.: Northern Nassau County 40.8660 -73.5938 261 1.4978 NYEO Eastern Orange County 41.4811 -74.1473 232 2.4946 NYSB St. Bonaventure 42.1082 -78.4844 223 4.3092 NYSY Syracuse 43.1000 -76.0833 219 1.7951 NYRC Rockland County 41.1347 -73.9746 194 2.1202 NYBM Beaver Meadow 42.6757 -78.3721 148 3.4023 NYCM Chatham 42.3797 -73.6461 138 1.4681 NYMT Monticello 41.5678 -74.6321 137 3.0444 NYOS Oswego-Fulton 43.3983 -76.4742 102 1.6518 NYRM Rome 43.3035 -75.4732 78 2.9434 NYSO Scio 42.1668 -78.0667 66 2.5882 NYWA Watertown 44.0071 -75.9843 64 1.6495 NYSL Saranac Lake 44.3167 -74.0730 45 0.3830 NYHP Huyck Preserve 42.4980 -74.2170 15 0.3947

The Anti-Pheasant Hunting Narrative (a set of predictable stories with repetitive refrains) is a cleverly layered case against pheasant hunting purposely designed with seductive premises which resonate with a broad public. That diverse group includes some conservationists and hunters who are willing to bolster (the pheasant and dove rhetoric of the Humane Society) to undermine certain forms of hunting.... Read More: http://nydovehunting.weebly.com/the-case-for-state-pheasant-stocking-programs.html

From the DEC Facebook page: we replied as The Bird Hunting Society. Please read our response and help us tell the antis how it is. For those that do not follow the DEC on Facebook, please start, the hunting community is outnumbered on the DEC page. Please don't be rude, just read the article we refered to, take one or two talking points from it for use in your own comment. Please like our two replies and our pages. Thank you! https://www.facebook.com/NYSDEC/photos/a.10150117710380956.294616.65102420955/10153749772060956/?type=3&theater