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By MICHAEL MARTZ
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writer
RICHMOND — Hunters, preservationists, public officials and landowners from the northern Piedmont took aim on “hoodlum hunters” Friday during an emotional public hearing before the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.
“We need to control road hunting. We need to control trespassing. We need to control thuggery,” declared Robert G. Richmond, a hunter from Falls Church who said he depends on the generosity of private landowners who open their property to hunters.
That generosity won’t last forever, Mr. Richmond and others said, unless state and local officials stop illegal hunting practices, such as armed trespassing on posted property and running dogs on posted private property to flush deer onto roadways, where hunters cruise for easy, and illegal, kills.
“The hunter in many cases seems to be more concerned with his rights than his responsibilities,” said
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