By Ed GodfreyOutdoor Writeregodfrey@oklahoman.comThis year's battles over wildlife legislation has begun. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission, the governing body for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, issued a position statement at its Monday meeting opposing more than 20 bills that have been filed this legislative session in the state Senate and House of Representatives. In its statement, signed by seven of the eight wildlife commissioners, the commission opposes bills that would: • Legislatively block the Wildlife Department’s constitutional requirement to acquire and provide public hunting and fishing land and water. • Legislatively changing hunting season dates, harvest limits and means of take without fully contemplating the negative impacts to wildlife populations based on science established by the Wildlife Department’s biologists. • Legislatively reducing critical revenue for the Wildlife Department by providing special benefits to certain classes of people, particularly nonresident landowners, and by improperly and unfairly taxing public lands owned by the agency. • Legislatively erode the enforcement of wildlife violations and trespassing on both public and private land. • Strip the Wildlife Department and the commission of its constitutional powers. • Deprive ODWC employees of their constitutional right to hunt and fish. • Create more unregulated conflict on public hunting and fishing lands. Among legislation introduced this year at the state Capitol are bills that would establish the dates for deer seasons; Create an archery and gun season for antelope; Allow airbow hunting; Establish special temporary hunting and fishing permits for landowners of 300 acres or more; Make the Wildlife Department pay property taxes for land the agency buys after Nov.Read more on NewsOK.com
Wildlife Commission Opposes Bevy Of Bills
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