NY Assembly & Senate go on Vacation

[mike rossi]

The legislature breaks on June 20. Whether it is the SAFE Act or something else, it is the last call for your letters, phone calls and e-mails, so please get them in!

 

For those interested in hunting doves in NY, here is our latest form letter. Please send this or better yet, use parts of it as talking points put into your own words. If anyone gets any replies please let us know on face book or PM here,. Thanks!

 

Dear Senator or Assembly Member;

Please sponsor or otherwise support the passage of legislation to classify the mourning dove as a migratory game bird. WHEREAS... Such status would have ecological, economic, and recreational benefits. Proper species classification would allow the DEC to manage this migratory, continental population in concert with other states in the Fish and Wildlife Services' designated eastern fly-way. The DEC has already been required to band doves for the FWS since 2009, however receives no revenue from dove hunting, thus in terms familiar to the legislature, it is an “unfunded mandate”.