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Rappahannock orchardists pleaded with the Board of Supervisors in its April 1 meeting to ask the Virginia Game Commission to liberalize game laws in the county so that more deer can be killed.
The orchardists, whose trees and profits are being eaten by deer, believe there is one solution to the problem, namely: to increase the bag limit on deer during the regular hunting season. The limit is now two.
Game Warden Jim Bankston, however, reported bad news when he told the supervisors that the State Game Commission would not consider liberalizing hunting laws for the next two years. “The county missed its chance to do something about it,” said Bankston, referring to a public hearing during which any proposed alterations in hunting laws should have been made.
At the recommendation of Bankston, the supervisors did agree to send a resolution to the State Game Commission asking that Rappahannock’s hunting
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