Which are part of the state in which he hunts. My comment includes "in other states"..... so these are what work in some other states, mine for one example...,
0.) Reduce the cost of a license and tags: When you buy a license you automatically get a DOE tag that’s useable anywhere in the state.
The cost of a basic hunting license in Maryland is nominal, and you can take either antlered or antlerless deer. IF you wanted to take a second antlered deer, you need to pay an extra $10.00 fee.
Wombat13: I don't know what nominal is exactly, but NY is pretty similar. Regular season license is $22 in NY and that gets you buck tag for gun season. Bow license is $15 in NY and that gets you an either sex tag and bow privilege. Bow season begins Oct 1. So for $37 (cost of two cases of Yuengling cans) you can hunt from October 1 to second Sunday in December and take two deer (two bucks or buck and doe). You can use the bow in the entire big game season. For another $10 you can add ML, which allows an additional 10 days after gun season and allows use of crossbow for two weeks at the beginning of November.
The real issue here is that OP thinks that all of NY state has an overpopulation of deer. As I've explained already this is not reality. Here are a couple of snippets from DEC deer management reports:
"WMU 8H includes parts of Livingston, Monroe, and Ontario Counties and has a limited amount of public land accessible for hunting at Honeoye Creek Wildlife Management Area and Rush Oak Openings Unique Area. This is a typical Lake Plains unit with an ideal mix of habitat resulting in large, healthy deer and a productive population. 67% of the land is agricultural and 16% is forested. 2019 Total Deer Take = 11.4 deer per sqmi."
"WMU 9T is in Cattaraugus County and contains a small amount of public hunting access, primarily in its northwestern portions. The unit is mainly forested, though a few small family farms are interspersed across the landscape. As in neighboring units in the extreme southern tier, 9T buck harvests have remained low for many years. Large reductions in antlerless permits in 2015 and 2016 along with increased fawn recruitment from milder winters, may have set the deer population in this unit on an increasing trajectory. 11% of the land is agricultural and 78% is forest. 2019 Total Deer Take = 5.0 deer per sqmi."
Comparing state wide regulation in Maryland to state wide regulation in NY doesn't really make sense. MD has about 20% of the land area as NY or about the same land area as Adirondack State Park. Most of the state is within 75 miles of Baltimore. The max N-S distance is a little over 100 miles vs. 300 miles in NY. These just aren't comparable geographically. /Wombat13
2.) Change the seasons:
- 2a.) Make the bow season the month of September and the first two weeks of October.
Maryland's bow season starts in September, and you may use the bow in the rifle season or the muzzleloader season.
- 2b.) Make the rifle/shotgun season the last two weeks of October, and the entire month of November.
Maryland being farther South the rut starts a bit later, so we start rifles/shotguns (or if you prefer, muzzleloaders) the two weeks after Thanksgiving, and then three days in January as well.
- 2c.) Make the late bow/muzzleloader season the entire month of December.
Our Muzzleloader season is the last two weeks of December, plus a primitive season that starts Feb 1st for three days, where you have to use either an old school rifle like my flintlock or a sidelock caplock or a recurve bow. We also get an early week for Muzzleloader in October. Archery runs until the last day of January
- 2d.) leave room for a January/February or March hunt if the regular season hunt harvest were too low.
I just pointed out that we have set seasons that are open regardless of the hunt harvest in January and February.
Wombat13: Most of the above is just longer/different seasons. That would be fine, in the areas where there is an abundance of deer. OP wants longer seasons and higher doe takes for the entire state. /Wombat 13
5.) Any and all municipal parks over a certain acreage have to allow hunting of some kind, even if it’s just bow season (regulations allowing for skill testing are allowed).
We have special hunts in certain parks, some are muzzleloader only, and archers are also allowed to hunt in areas of private land within the "no shoot zone" provided they are up in a tree stand, and the location has been inspected and the angle of shooting is downwards enough to keep things "safe".
Wombat13: Many parks have hunting. Decision is made by whichever gov is in charge of the park. OP wants the state to force local governments to allow hunting whether the local community wants it or not. Why should the state make the decision instead of the local community. The negative impacts of deer over populations (vehicle collisions, etc.) are borne by the local community, so why not let them decide? /Wombat13
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