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By THERESA REYNOLDS &
DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Contributing Writers
The Piedmont Environmental Council, which has waged a sometimes solitary fight against road hunters and other violators of Virginia’s game laws, will get reinforcements from an unexpected quarter at Friday’s meeting of the Virginia 'Game Commission in Richmond.
“We’ve been harping on hunter ethics and education for years and years,” James Noreen, director of hunter services for the National Rifle Association, said in an interview last week. “We fully support the work of PEC in this area. In fact, we think that insisting on and enforcing high standards of hunter conduct are vitally important to the future of hunting in this state.”
Mr. Noreen said that the NR A had no official position yet on a legislative solution to Virginia’s “slob hunter” problem but planned to have one formulated in time for the Game Commission’s March 21 hearing in Richmond.
PEC, a privately funded rural conservation organization based in Warrenton and serving nine piedmont counties, formed a special committee last year to examine the “slob hunter” problem in response to the
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