BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 56: Fighting for Sunday hunting in the East

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Meet BHA Capital Region Co-Chair Samantha Flowers, BHA Pennsylvania board member Don Rank and BHA Regional Manager (and Pennsylvanian) Chris Hennessey, who are fighting the good fight to end Sunday hunting bans all across the Eastern United States.

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0:00.0	The Department of National Resources is putting this on and as hunters they're
0:06.7	wanting us to meet this need.
0:08.6	We can't meet it because of the regulations that are in place.
0:12.0	So I got involved in the BHA.
0:13.1	I got tired of being angry and helpless now.
0:15.6	I'm angry and helpful.
0:16.7	Right, right.
0:17.7	Cool.
0:18.7	Yeah, well, I agree's an energy.
0:18.9	Yeah, it's great.
0:20.1	Yeah.
0:21.3	This is a perfect example.
0:22.6	Is this like a just use of government and of legal power on the individual?
0:28.8	The conservation dollars are getting smaller and smaller every year.
0:31.4	If you look at the Pippin-Robbinson that came to Pennsylvania,
0:33.2	it was $10 million more 10 years ago. And every year it gets a little less and a little less.
0:39.1	And we've got hundreds that we're not even losing, they're just going on other states.
0:42.3	I've talked to a lot of people that are Pennsylvania hunters that we're not even losing they're just going hunt in other states. I've talked to a lot of people that are Pennsylvania hunters that they live in
0:45.3	Pennsylvania they no longer buy a Pennsylvania license they go to New York to go to Ohio
0:48.7	because they can hunt the whole weekend there. I like to frame some of this in the context of not what the arguments are or what other people think, but
0:56.0	what's lost and that's what's lost.
0:58.3	There's a lot of weekend hunting trips that have never happened and will never happen.
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