Due to time constraints, Grannis’ testimony before the environmental committee in New York got cut short. One thing Grannis tried to do was reassure the committee that he is not anti-hunting.

The nominee sought to deal with the anti-hunting charge immediately at the hearing, noting he had grown up in the Midwest and as a youngster “regularly went hunting.”

“I shot quail, pheasant, ducks and geese and hunted deer with a bow and arrow,” he told the senators. “I enjoyed hunting. I just don’t do it anymore.”

Later on in his testimony, he had the following things to say about issues.

# Increases in hunting and fishing license fees had to be discussed given the declining revenue from them available for the state’s Conservation Fund. The fund provides money for the state’s programs to promote hunting and fishing.
# The state should consider creating salt-water fishing licenses if the federal government moves ahead with proposals that would create them on a national level.
# All terrain vehicles (ATVs) “have ripped up thousands and thousands of acres” across New York and present more of an environmental danger than snowmobiles that need snow to run on and generally stick to trails.
# He supports continued acquisition of state land in the Adirondacks but is open to discussing the expansion of hamlets within the Adirondack Park.

Tom Remington

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