Farm
Hunting
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
_ Pennsylvania Farm Bureau has
asked the Pennsylvania Game
Commission to reconsider its de
cision not to allow the sale of sur
plus antlerless deer hunting tags
for the 1999 hunting season.
Farm Bureau member Douglas
Gilbert of Guys Mills, who serves
on the farm organization’s Wild
life Damage Control Committee,
made the request during the Game
Commission meeting taking place
this week in Harrisburg. The
Commission hasn’t approved the
sale of unsold, surplus tags since
the 1997 deer season.
Gilbert, a hay, grain and beef
farmer from Crawford County,
told Commission members, “We
recognize the fact that many hunt
ers feel that surplus tag usage on
State Game lands will harm their
harvest success rate in future
years. Farm Bureau is simply ask
ing that you allow county treasur
ers to sell surplus tags this fall that
may only be used to hunt antler
less deer on private lands with the
permission of the private property
owner.”
Farmers are currently coping
with price slumps, economic hard
ships, and urban sprawl, Gilbert
said. “Wildlife damage to their al
ready economically depleted and
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Bureau Wants Deer
Decision Reconsidered
drought-stricken crops is driving
farmers out of business,” he testi
fied.
Responses to a survey conduct
ed by Farm Bureau show average
yield losses totaled about 35 per
cent due to white-tail deer feeding
on craps in 1998. “Average loss
per farm family due to the prolific
deer herd was approximately
$9,602,” said Gilbert He urged to
Commission to “please recon
sider" the issuance of surplus deer
tags this season.
Gilbert also drew attention to a
Farm Bureau recommendaiton,
the Small Landowner Deer Man
agement Proposal. Under the plan,
farmers and small landowners
could enroll their property in a
Game Commission Landowner
Database by filling out a simple
form or via the Internet. “Enroll
ment would then enable sports
men to access the name, address
and telephone number of the prop
erty owner via the Internet or by
contacting the Game Commission
Regional Office,” Gilbert explain
ed. “Sportsmen could then apply
for surplus tags not yet distributed
in that Deer Management Unit”
Hunting under such a program
would be only with the landown
er’s permission, Gilbert added.
Farm Bureau recommended
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some changes in the deer depreda
tion permit hunting program
which allows antlerless deer hunt
ing during specified off-season
times from February through Sep
tember on farms with severe deer
damage problems. Farm Bureau
asked that reports from farmers
using the program be required less
frequently than the current weekly
basis. Farm Bureau also asked that
farmers be entitled to issue twice
as many deer hunting permits to
hunters one permit for every
five acres of cultivated land in
stead of the current quota of one
permit for every 10 acres. Farm
Bureau also expressed its support
for the Federation of Sportsmen’s
Clubs’ recommendation that all li
censed sportsmen be able to parti
cipate in the deer depredation per
mit hunting program, including
hunters under age 18.
Addressing other wildlife crop
damage problems. Gilbert said,
“... many of our Farm Bureau
members in southwest Pennsylva
nia are being hit hard with extreme
turkey damage.”
Damage has been as
severe as deer damage
in some areas, he said.
Farm Bureau is asking
the Game Commission
to develop a "hotspot”
program for hunting tur
key on farms with crop
damage problems. “We
also recommend that the
bag limit be raised to
two bearded birds for
the spring gobbler sea
son,” Gilbert added.
Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau is a voluntary,
non-govemmental or
ganization which repre
sents over 27,000 farm
and rural families.
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