Oh, and here’s something that I really should have mentioned in my last post, regarding the FGC meeting and video.
Chief Nancy Foley, from the DFG Enforcement Branch, presented a summary of lead-ban compliance and enforcement efforts. While most of us are aware that the DFG has a pretty serious shortage of wardens, Foley reported that the Department still managed to make approximately 6500 “contacts” in the field last year. Of those contacts, the wardens gave out 63 warnings and only wrote nine citations for violations of the lead ban. Most of those cited were also being cited for other violations (poaching, tresspassing, etc.).
72 hunters out of 6500 field encounters is, as Commissioner Rogers noted, almost a 99% compliance rate!
I want to join the Commissioners in congratulating California’s hunters for their efforts to work with the law, despite the fact that many of them disagree with the law or its necessity. This kind of thing goes a long way toward showing the non-hunting public that we do care about doing the right thing, and that we do comply with the law even while we debate its merits.
Kudos to all CA hunters who have taken the effort and accepted the challenge of complying with a tough and unreasonable law.
Jake
That is definitely good news.
While I don’t always agree with a particular law, I always make a point of obeying it. That is just common sense, and goes along way to help all of us fight those laws that we think are bogus.