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Charles F. Finley, executive director of the Virginia Forestry Association.

Public testimony, most of it from citizens of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Culpeper counties, included tales of retaliation against citizens who complained about illegal and rude hunters: Deer entrails strewn along driveways, shots fired over houses, confrontations on roads and in public places.

They complained about what Rappahannock Supervisor Nelson Lane called “the vulgar and blatant disregard of the law and the rights of other, citizens.”

“We experience downright terrorism in Rappahannock County,” said Mr. Lane, who opened his 10,000 acres to 65 hunters last year.

“These good old boys are breaking the law, with very little fear of reprisal from anyone,” said Brenda Roope, a Culpeper resident who said she is afraid to walk on her property because of illegal hunting in the sur(’ontinued

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